To Publish Surfaces to Autodesk Docs to Reference into an Autodesk Revit Model

To prepare for publishing surfaces to Autodesk Docs

You can publish Autodesk Civil 3D surfaces to Autodesk Docs so they can be referenced into an Autodesk Revit model as a topography.

To publish an Autodesk Civil 3D surface to Autodesk Docs, you first need to install Desktop Connector for Windows. You also need to be a member of an Autodesk Docs project.

1. Follow the steps in Prepare Autodesk Desktop Connector in the Autodesk Revit Help to install Desktop Connector for Windows.
2. If you are not already a member of an Autodesk Docs project, ask your Autodesk Docs account administrator to add you to a project. See Access Autodesk Docs in the Autodesk Revit Help.

See also About Autodesk Docs Document Management and About the Autodesk Docs Team Connected Drive.

To publish surfaces to Autodesk Docs

1. In Civil 3D, click Output tab Export panel Publish Surfaces Find to display the Publish Surfaces dialog box.
   Note: The Publish Surfaces command is also available on the Collaborate ribbon tab and on the Surfaces contextual ribbon tab in the Extract From Surface drop-down.
2. Select the TIN surfaces that you want to publish.
   Note: Grid surfaces and large surfaces cannot be published using this command and are filtered out of the selection.
3. Under Specify Output File, click the browse button and navigate to the Autodesk Docs folder to use. Select an Autodesk Docs\<hub>\<folder>\<subfolder> location.
   Note: The Publish Surfaces command requires that you specify a location within an Autodesk Docs\<hub>\<folder>\<subfolder> location. A connected drive for Autodesk Docs is indicated by a icon. An account within the connected drive is indicated by a hub icon . A folder is created within a hub.
4. Specify a file name and click Save.
   Note: By default, the file will have the same name as the current drawing name and will be saved with a .shared.dwg file name extension. For example, if drawing1.dwg is the file name, by default the file will be saved as drawing1.shared.dwg. The surfaces that you specify are all saved in the same file. When you link to the topography in Revit, all of the surfaces in the file are linked.
5. Click OK.

   If the surface style settings need to be modified to ensure an accurate surface representation in Autodesk Docs and Revit, a task dialog box is displayed.

6. Click Publish the Surface with the Updated Style to automatically update the style and to continue the publish operation. The surface style in the current Civil 3D drawing will remain unchanged.
Note: If you need to repeat the publishing operation using the same file name and location, it is recommended to wait for about one minute before republishing so that the previous process can be completed first. Note that the processing time depends on the size of the surface.

To view published drawings on Autodesk Docs

You can view and manage your published drawings in your Autodesk Docs account.

For more information, see About Document Management in the Autodesk Docs Help.

To reference surfaces in a Revit model

To reference the surfaces in a Revit model, you link to the drawing file that was published from Civil 3D. The surfaces are referenced into the Revit model as a topography.

• In Revit, click Insert tab Link panel Link Topography .

For more information, see Sharing Topography between Revit and Civil 3D in the Revit Help.