PointCloud to Surface Suite

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

PointCloud to Surface Suite has been designed for surveyors, architects, builders and developers working on as-built projects. It reads laser scan data captured onsite and imported into Autodesk® Revit®, streamlining the workflow needed to create complex surfaces in a BIM project to match as-built conditions.

Works with both structured and unstructured point cloud instances. Supports shared co-ordinate models.

The 14 Tools include:

Surface from Point Cloud Selection: This allows you to draw a selection box around the points of interest then select whether they should be mapped as either a topography, floor or roof element. For roofs and floors, you can select the build type and level for the new element. The section box can be used to filter out points on a broad scale, so by working in 3d view the section box in conjunction with the user drawn selection box allows very specific filtering of points to be added to each new element.

Surface from adaptive points: Reads all adaptive points from your document and creates a new topography, floor or roof element mapped to those points. This takes advantage of adaptive point ability to snap to pointclouds since Revit 2011.

Add Adaptive Points to Existing surface: Reads all adaptive points from your document and adds them to the existing topography, floor or roof element of your choosing.

Wall Tool: Mark out your wall lines with adaptive points that snap to the point cloud then use the wall tool to create straight or curved walls that align to your marks.

Model Lines: Mark out your lines with adaptive points that snap to the point cloud then use the Model Lines tool to create straight or Model Lines that align to your marks.

Topo Toolkit

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The plugin has two tools in it.

1. Stepping walls
2. Push To Topo

Stepping Walls 

Stepping Walls is a plug-in that can be used to step selected walls along a topo surface. This tool can be used to create compound walls along the toposurface quickly and easily. 

Push To Topo

This tool is to push the selected Generic Models or Site Components onto the selected toposurface. This might be used to place manholes, seating benches, lamp posts, or other site features on a toposurface if they are of the Generic Model or Site category.

Topo Align — Contains 5 Surface Commands

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Topo Align contains 5 commands to assist in working with topo surfaces.

Align to Element

Pick elements (walls, floors, roofs, pads) and align topo surfaces to either the top or bottom face with variable vertical offsets to avoid coincident surfaces if required.

You can also align topo surfaces to individual edges and some limited support for aligning topo surfaces to families. There is still an early attempt at cleaning up (removing) existing topo points that are within the plan area of the element being used for the align. The results are mixed for very complex elements and some manual processing may still be required.

Points from Lines

Draw model lines and arcs BELOW the topo surface and use this tool to project them onto the topo surface as additional topo points. This is useful when grading regions of the site and you don’t want any topo surface manipulation beyond a given point. If the lines are selected from a closed loop you are asked if you want to remove the existing topo points within the plan shape.

Points along contours

Draw model lines as contours lines on levels/reference planes where you want to precisely control the proposed contour of the topo. Or draw the contours on a datum level below the topo and control the Z value of the points with the offset value. The command will prompt you to select the topo surface and then the contours lines. Topo points will be created along the model lines at the specified distances.

Free Attach Toposurface

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This is a plug-in that allows you to attach toposurface to any edge, any face or floor elements. This could be used in developing site to create roads, sidewalks, etc The app has the convenience of letting you pick edges faces or elements in a continuous loop until you hit the escape key to exit the command.

BIM for Archipad (a Site Monitoring Solution)

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Archipad is today making the link between your Autodesk® Revit®, BIM software and your site monitoring solution. Thanks to this Revit Plugin, you can export your plans from your BIM model in record time.

List of features

• Direct export to the Archipad Cloud web application
• Automatic export to 2D plans in pdf format
• Choice of different cuts (one or more)
• Automatic selection of plan format (A4…)
• File name customization
• Ability to hide unreferenced view tags, definition areas, framing limits, etc.
• Automatic creation of the project on Archipad

Land Planning (Create Rooms & Blocks ) from Lines

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The function of this tool is to convert lines to rooms and Convert rooms to blocks.

the tool will help planing engineers to start their projects in Autodesk® Revit® by converting the lines to rooms and then to blocks.

This will help in land planning at the beginning of new projects.

PlaceMaker — Instant Location Context from Across the World

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The PlaceMaker plugin for Autodesk® Revit® allows you to easily geolocate your project, import Terrain, High resolution Aerials, 3D buildings, roads, walks, rails and even bodies of water and trees. It will save you hours, if not days, of work and create instant location context from across the world.

Quick to learn and simple to use, just geolocate your site and start importing. 

PlaceMaker’s core feature abilities allow it to import high quality terrain data, high resolution aerials, 3D buildings from around the world. Complete road networks, paths, rivers, bays, oceans, swimming pools and canals and trees. We’ve even added rail networks.

Main Imports:

• Terrain
• Aerial Imagery
• Buildings
• Roads and Paths
• Rails
• Water
• Trees

Environment — Place Models in the Context of a Real Site

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The environment is an application, which helps architects, landscape architects and landscape designers to avoid the routine and complex operations with placing an architectural model in the environment of a real site and gives an opportunity to enjoy a design process.

To this end, we have developed a number of unique tools:

For example, using our technology of automatic attitude to topography, you can place walls and floors on topographies adjacent to the projected building in one click.

Plug Into BIM Tools

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

1. Curtain Wall Pattern Designer: Define custom and repetitive panel patterns applied to curtain walls. Generate multiple panelling options in a few seconds. 
2. Model Data Management: Assign standardized data to model elements for building commissioning as well as future operation and maintenance tasks. 
3. Read Only Shared Parameters: Create Read-Only Shared Parameters to strengthen data entry reliability in your projects. Read-Only Shared Parameters will avoid users from manually entering data. 
4. Attach Foundations to Toposurface: Streamline the embedment calculation process of structural foundation piles and shafts into bearing stratum. 
5. Create Floor from CAD: Create complex floors designed from external software like Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D®. Automate roads and land development into your Autodesk® Revit® projects.

Plug Into BIM Tools

LTM® - Landscape Terrain Modeller v4.3

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 4.3.0.0, 11/18/2019 – New Functions:

• InFill Floor, 
• Tools for working with Contour Lines, 
• Cut/Fill Calculations on subsoil, 
• Buildings on Toposurface

Description

The Landscape Terrain Modeller (LTM®) plug-in for Autodesk® Revit® makes it easy for landscape architects to work in Revit.

The LTM® plug-in includes 20 powerful tools that enable you to fast and easily modify Floors in Revit by defining a slope.

BIMaven Pro

From the Autodesk App Store:

This app is a productivity improvement tool. It is a tool that consolidates all the useful functions that we as BIM specialist require and use on a daily basis.

We developed this tool based on our workflow, however, feel free to join us with our plugin development.

We will spend time to develop plugins and we hope to provide value to fellow BIM users as well.

Currently, we have the following function in place:

• To solve recurring usability issues with batch reloading Autodesk® Revit® links. 
• Generation of the site boundary given Eastings and Northings

We plan to add on the following functions as well:

• CAD files batch reload
• Clash detection management

LTM® - Landscape Terrain Modeller v4.3

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 4.3.0.0, 10/21/2019

New Functions:

• InFill Floor,
• Tools for working with Contour Lines,
• Cut/Fill Calculations on subsoil,
• Buildings on Toposurface

Description

The Landscape Terrain Modeller (LTM®) plug-in for Autodesk® Revit® makes it easy for landscape architects to work in Revit.

The LTM® plug-in includes 20 powerful tools that enable you to fast and easily modify Floors in Revit by defining a slope.

New tools for toposurfaces:

• Import model lines, tools to modify contour lines. Create toposurface directly from model lines.

LandXML Pipe Network Importer

From the Autodesk App Store:

This add-in was designed to work with Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® LandXML exports of pipe networks.

LandXML exports from other applications cannot be guaranteed but may also work with this add-in.

UI and sample model

Free OnboxApp – Topo, Building and Grid Tools

From the Autodesk App Store:

Originally created in 2014 as a collection of macros to improve and speed up workflows for multi-story buildings, it had its first public release in September 2016 as an Autodesk® Revit® application. It became very popular in Brazil and other countries like Spain, Mexico, and Portugal, helping AEC students and professionals across 39 different countries to be more productive and efficient.

The tool is available in English or Brazilian Portuguese depending on the language of Revit that you have launched.

The Slope Grading Command

Free Engipedia Topo Shaper – Shape Topography With Model Lines

From the Autodesk App Store:

The main purpose of the tool is to shape topography instance with the help of model lines. The tool adds additional topography points along selected model lines. Line division can be per number of points or per distance between points. If there is more than one topography instance, the tool will prompt you to select only one.

All model lines are supported: lines, arcs, ellipses, curves and nurbs. Make sure that the selected model lines are not closed loops, otherwise the tool will warn and ignore them. If there are closed loops (circles, ellipses) to be used, then they should be divided into 2 or more parts with Autodesk® Revit® Split Element tool.

Topography is a mesh object so points division should be thought carefully. More points do not mean better results.

An additional feature is saving current topography. The current state of topography can be saved into a CSV points file, and the original state can be returned later using Revit Massing & Site > Topo surface > Create from Import > Specify Points File tool. Saved topography points CSV file is always in Meters.

Tool can be run via Add-ins tab on Revit ribbon.

Free Solar Farm Planner v1.2 for BIM 360 Docs

From the Autodesk App Store:

Solar Farm Planner is one of a kind technology demonstration of basic features in Autodesk® ecosystem for laying out solar farms on arbitrary areas on Google® Maps.

Using Forge™ platform, it is integrated with Autodesk® BIM 306® for better collaboration of users on a project and for saving a 3D mock-up of solar farms to BIM 360 Docs®, which can be displayed with Autodesk Forge Viewer™. The farm design process is just a few simple calculations (total number of panels, total weight, total kWh, etc.) combined with panels rotation and tilt on the area that may be a complicated polygon on the map.

The main features 

• Data transfer with Autodesk services 
• Google Maps manipulation 
• Arbitrary polygon area 
• Panel rotation and tilt 
• Import/export of mock-ups from/to: 
• Local drive 
• BIM 306 Docs 
• Adjustable farm parameters: 
• Scale 
• Panels number 
• Weight 
• Output power 
• Etc. 

devBLD Topo and Utility Tools

From the devBLD website:

Topo Tools

devBLD Topo Tools are a suite of tools to automate the transformation of total station gathered data on site during topographic surveys into Revit models.

v1.0 Features

• Create toposurface
• Add points to toposurface
• Add point object
• Configurator

Utility Tools

devBLD Utility Tools is a suite of tools to automate the transformation of total station gathered data on site during utility surveys into Revit models.

v1.0 Features

• Create Pipes
• Create Manholes
• Configurator

Naviate Landuse – Create Zoning Plans

From the Naviate website:

Working with Naviate Landuse will save you valuable time, enabling more time to create good zoning plans. Naviate Landuse is a solution built for Revit that not only facilitates the acceleration of project documentation; it also helps optimise working methods. standards are built-in; everything is preconfigured to enhance your BIM workflow.

Revit 2019.2 Includes New Features for Collaborating with BIM 360 and Civil 3D

From the Revit blog:

Revit 2019.2 new features connect data, cloud, and customers

Sylvia Knauer
January 16, 2019

Written by: Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, Ian Molloy, Pawel Piechnik

The Revit product team is very excited to announce the release of Revit 2019.2 — the latest version of Revit — to current subscribers.

Before we dive into Revit 2019.2 new features, here’s some background on how we determine what to include in each new release. We capture user feedback and requests via the interactive Revit Ideas page and maintain a public Revit Road Map that outlines the direction of Revit software development in three areas:

• Create: Creating models that capture design intent at a high degree of accuracy and detail is central to why you use Revit. Our goal is to help you create project data in all phases while engaging in a delightful, intuitive, and contextual experience.
• Optimize: Because you’re always striving to create better designs using the best possible tools, software development works to support both. We’re working on features and functionality that enable you to analyze, simulate, and iterate and pick the best design options. We’re optimizing software performance to help you work more productively and automate routine tasks so you can focus on the design.
• Connect: With more multi-disciplinary collaboration and detailed design engineering done up front, we’re considering how you integrate teams and products. We support multidisciplinary project teams and tools that connect design to fabrication for structural steel and precast and that connect MEP modeling to fabrication.

 So what are the Revit 2019.2 new features?

The Revit 2019.2 update reflects how Revit has evolved to more tightly connect you with your data and with others via the cloud and Autodesk BIM 360. We feel strongly that the future of design is inextricably connected to having BIM information in a data-centric cloud environment. With Autodesk BIM 360—a single platform that connects all project members and phases from design, to fabrication and pre-construction—project teams can access the right information at the right time. The direction of Revit development is to allow as many people as possible to participate in the BIM process and to improve your workflow and experience.

Tutorial – Piling with Revit 2019, Dynamo and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2019

From the Revit: A Structured Approach blog:

In this tutorial we will look at a simple method to generate piling from a finished ground level to a rock stratum from borehole data. Most of you will now have access to the Autodesk AEC collection but, I often find that people tend to use just one or two tools from this collection which doesn’t return value or efficiency. In this workflow we will utilise Revit 2019, Civil 3D 2019 and Dynamo.

This workflow can also be achieved using Dynamo and Revit to find the intersections between the piling and the surfaces, but this can take quite a while to execute on large datasets, is computationally expensive and will invariably crash the machine.

Continue reading on the Revit: A Structured Approach blog »