Enhance your building models with site grading features to visualize the design in 3D and to convey design intent to stakeholders.
Site Designer is an extension for Autodesk Revit. It provides dynamic editing tools with the ability to change grades and elevations, and move grading components while automatically reshaping the underlying toposurface. With a site plan contained within a Revit model, volume and quantity reports are easily viewed using Revit tools.
Use Site Designer to model alternatives for mass grading, building pads, streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and retaining walls all within the Revit environment. To create site elements, use Site Designer tools to convert a sketched line into a street, sidewalk, curb and gutter, retaining wall, or parking lot. When you edit the site elements to change their location, elevation, grade, or geometry, Site Designer automatically updates and maintains the underlying toposurface.
With Site Designer, you can do the following:
- Report and schedule areas, volumes, and cut and fill volumes to better understand the impact of site design changes on requirements to move or add fill.
- Iterate conceptual designs and create more realistic visuals of the building site by incorporating grading features directly into the Revit model.
- Better communicate conceptual design ideas about the building site to engineers who can then complete the detailed site design using professional civil engineering tools like Autodesk Civil 3D.
- Share the appearance of site plan designs for better communication with everyone involved in the project, including owners, architects, designers, planners, and civil engineering firms.
- Share a site model between Revit and Civil 3D through LandXML files, improving collaboration between architects and engineers working on a project.
- More quickly add design elements to your site such as berms and drainage swales, minimizing the time required to mass grade a site and to try alternatives at the design development stage.
- Use special terrain families within Site Designer to define parameters that control widths, cut and fill slopes, and other projection settings.
- Locate hardscape components such as streets, intersections, sidewalks, curbs and walls that can follow the existing terrain and have controlled elevations and slopes - all while the toposurface is automatically maintained.