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Hi All, Real life situ here: preparing to port our office over to Revit. I'm the point man and I have a few months to get the hang of Revit, then i'll be the in-office guide for the bazillions of questions that everyone will have when we start making the change. I'm now pretty familiar with the interface and how Revit "thinks", and I'm starting to build up one of our existing projects (done in ACAD at the mo'). However, I've run into a basic issue: I cannot import the site survey satisfactorily, or thence create a proper topo map from that. Ive followed the tuts closely and Im pretty familair with IT as it is, but Im totally stumped here. Its a fairly flat site, should have no issues. "Should".... Note: the survey map provides 3d points (x,y,z co-ords in the properties panel), on a layer called mspoints. The resulting map is visibile in ACAD, but the points are removed (hidden?) when i bring it into Revit. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here is the process, with how things appear at the various stages (1-5): 1. The survey as it appears in ACAD, in 2d 2. ...and in 3D.. 3. ..and that layer mspoints, in 3d As you can see in no.2 above the dwg was never intended/cleaned up for making a full 3d topo map. Now, this is how things appear in Revit ; I 'm on the "Site" view, I do the "import cad file", auto-centre, current view UNchecked, and all looks ok... 5. Cad file imported to Revit ....but its not: 6. MSpoints layer is missing but every other useless layer isnt; when i go to create a topo map, Revit seems to not see the mspoints themselves, and just generates something fairly messed up... Even attempting to specify the mspoints layer only when im porting doesnt work - revit doesn't see them :/ Any help greatly appreciated! CO'B SOLVED, THANK YOU TYPHOON! 1. Download attached .lsp file 2. In AutoCAD (full, lsp srcipts dont run in LT) type appload 3. Navigate to where you downloaded the .lsp file, and click load, then close or okay (whichever). 4. The window disappears; now type RCPV 5. The lsp file is in portuguese so it will now say »» Quantas casas decimais? ( Which means roughly 'To How Mnay Decimal Places do you want it?'). Leave it at 4 (the default, what you see right now), so just press enter. 6. Select the objects you want to affect- either drag a window selection or select individually 7. Press enter. Here is a link to a tutorial to load the resulting .csv file into a Revit project: http://www.tutorialhero.com/click-52843-importing_topo_points_into_revit.php -COB
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Perhaps you could upload the CAD file if it's not to large. I would suspect that the actual points are on a different layer and that you could create the site using all the layers - let Revit decide which layers to use.
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It sure does look like you have a mess. Have you fully read the HELP file - Creating a Toposurface from Imported 3D Data ? By the looks of the first few images, the CAD file is not correct and needs to be cleaned up. You need to make sure that the 3D data you want to use is all isolated on their own layers. There also appears to be points that are way out of wack elevation wise.
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Heya guys, thanks for the replies. Yup, ive read, re-read the help file - no joy, thence im here  The third image actually does show the 3d-points layr (mspoints) in an isolated drawing. In ACAD i can view it in 3d and everything looks fine, no daft tall spike or anything. But, when i insert this drawing nothing shows up. Im attaching that particular file now; if you can get it to work in Revit I'd love to know! Cheers, COB *Btw using Acad 2007 and Revit 2010.
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I took a look at this yesterday trying to import into 2009 and your right - the points don't want to import. Not sure why it doesn't like the points. BTW - the file does have a few points that seem to be out of wack. I had a system crash yesterday so I could not research furthur. Maybe someone else can look at it.
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Ah cool, thanks very much for taking the time to look at it! Ill try cleaninG it up; if anyone cAN recommend a programe/technique that might help, please do mention. Many thanks, COB
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Hi, use this Lisp routine, it's in portuguese to create a "CSV" file, then import the CSV file of your points into revit and not the DWG, the first thing "He" ask is the "Number of decimal places", put 3 or 4 (by default), then select all your points (window or crossing), after this select the folder and the name for the file.... In this way i think you solve the problem....
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Yeah, this solve the problem...
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Thanks Typhoon - I didn't know that conversion lsp program existed.
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Oh wow, thank you!! I'm not familair with .lsp scripts, unfortunately... I followed various directiosn to load your scripte, but this is the output int he command line when i try to run: Command: lsp Initializing... Enter an option [?/Commands/Functions/Variables/Load]: l _.appload RegCoorPontosCsv.lsp successfully loaded. Command: Command: »» Inicie aplicação digitando RCPV Command: Command: Inicie Unknown command "INICIE". Press F1 for help. Command: aplicação Unknown command "APLICAÇÃO". Press F1 for help. Command: digitando Unknown command "DIGITANDO". Press F1 for help. Command: RegCoorPontosCsv.lsp Unknown command "REGCOORPONTOSCSV.LSP". Press F1 for help. Any help? Thanks again!
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Yeah, and here it is to convert to TXT file if you want..
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Yeah, in CAD write APPLOAD, then find and select the Routine, pick in load and OK, in the command prompt write RCPV then do what i told you before....
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Typhoon - do we have to convert these to english to use?
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No man, if you want i can translate...
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