Forums >> Revit Building >> Technical Support >> Can Revit show base elevation line where it cuts topography?

SeekerFinder

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Ok, thanks both, finally a solution (though I don't have time to try it right now)!  Thanks also Tim, I have tried that but lines don't to snap to the 'virtual' edges displayed this way, which means I have to a~i~m!

WWHub, I am going to give you some feedback as a first time user of the forum. Use or lose it, that's up to you.  I find you have a very partonising attitude, particularly for a moderator.  You should not assume that everyone who posts here did not read the help file or does not know the limitations of a particular tool.  If you can stick to 'have you tried...' or 'can't be done but here's a workaround...' or even 'it's in the helpfile buddy' (though you're gonna have to catch me out on that one!) and generally address the question at hand it would really simplify things for first time users.  Statements like 'once he learned to use this tool he would discover on his own where it works and where it doesn't work' (what's the point of that??  I already knew that - hence the post!) and then advising that another user gave the advice 'indirectly' without sharing the solution in your own reply just causes unnecessary  delay - and resession or not, we all have better things to do.  Should this query really have taken 14 posts to get to an answer?  Just my experience of your particular replies in the forum, hope you can deal with it as honest, open and hopefully positive critisism to make a (very) good forum a very great forum which I hope to be a contributor to in future.

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To others,

There are several very good people who volunteer to moderate this forum or who just choose to contribute to the site.  All of us do so freely because we share a common interest in REVIT. 

I would like to address an issue relevant to the site and that will hopefully help others. In seeker’s last post  "... you should not assume that everyone who posts here did not read the help file or know the limitations of a particular tool ...".  

1. What we know about a poster is usually very limited and when we need more information, we can only make assumptions. 
2. One item usually missing in posts is the REVIT platform the poster is using or the release date.  This can be very important, especially with the changes in 2010. 
3. From being on this forum for several years, it is very obvious that new users rarely use the HELP.  I understand that because I came from AutoCAD and I understand how useless the help is in that program.  BUT not true in REVIT!  For you new posters, if you have looked in the HELP, state that.  If you don’t say that you have looked and I answer, I will usually remind you.  Remember that one word searches in the HELP work best.
4. Sometimes because the posters question is too general, the best answer is to tell the user to look in the HELP because of the detail of information required.  That is not being rude or flip.
5. The forums on RevitCITY are also a good source of information.  Learn to use one word searches though.  Also, look at the bottom of your post after posting and you will find similar threads.
6. Tell us as completely as you can what you are trying to do and what you have done. 

Finally, may I suggest that you thoughtfully read the answers given by those that are giving their time to try and help you. 

Thanks,

WWHub

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MARS1276

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Typhoon,

To reply to the question stated earlier, I drew the slab as per the overall dimensions of the building, added my foundation wall to the slab, then changed the outline of the slab to the interior of the foundation wall.  I had to change my foundation wall family so it referenced the length from it's top, but then I could establish the foundation wall to start at the Finish Floor level.  I created my floor slab to have 8" concrete and 8" stone as well.  We always figure our Finish floor to be relative to the topo around it.  So in this manner, creating the building slab does cut through the topo when looking at it in a section view as well as a 3d view. Also, we usually grade our site elevation to roughly six inches below Finish Floor as well.

Hope that helped to answer your question.  If not; sorry.

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leeastwoodarch

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pads are a decent workaround, but on a complex topography with multiple basement or foundation levels, you'll end up putting in multiple pads (or a suspended slab over undisturbed topography?). then you'll probably end up sketching drafting lines over your elevations anyway. some workarounds create more work...

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