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hoffmanr

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I know terrible title but hopefully I am grabbing peoples attention!  Wondering if there are some good places to either get more symbols (shapes/types), 3d models for shrubbery, bushes- Anyone doing any landscaping projects from within Revit?  Any information would be helpful! 

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mbsteve

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Try Autodesk Seek, this is located on the opening screen under families. Also 3D warehouse has some planting materials. You can make your own symbols. Also Site Works for Revit is an add on, may be useful.

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itsmyalterego

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I've had to make a lot of trees on my own, which is discouraging.  Sucks living in a rainforest when the rest of the world can actually landscape, and plant palm trees.  Here, it's a crush or nature.

Have you found your RPCs?  Archvision includes a small library of RPC trees and shrubs with revit, which might meet your needs

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vector25

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put your efforts into geometry shapes that sell- any plants or no plants makes little difference..

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emgeeo

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What a let-down this thread turned out to be...completely expected something else...

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vector25

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ArchVision is the leader in the development of image-based content creation, management and delivery solutions. In addition to its RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) Plug-in technology, ArchVision's products include a growing library of RPC content ranging from people, trees and shrubs to image-based automobiles and other popular objects.

ArchVision currently serves customers located in over 100 countries around the world. RPC is the image-based rendering technology of choice for many of the leading animation, CAD, real-time simulation, and 3D modeling software packages on the market today. Native and plug-in RPC support now exists in Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk 3ds Max Design, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Newtek's LightWave 3D, Maxon's Cinema 4D, AccuRender nxT from Robert McNeel & Associates, Piranesi from Informatix, Adobe Photoshop, Dynamite VSP, Graffiti RenderPro, Arc+ Render, VR4MAX, SGI Performer and others.

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nastyclown

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Some tips

If you convert a sketchup, 3dmax or dwg plant into revit, make sure the 3d geometry is not seen on cut, elevation and plan view. Instead of that, draw or add elevations/plans of the plants. Geometry such as plants have just too much polygons, and you dont want that in a revit proyect.

And, if this is a proyect with long term, is not recomendable at all put those kinds of high-poly families into the proyect, use the default (and sometimes not that ugly) rpc that come with the program. There is a image HERE that you might get interested.

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vector25

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when i first seen RPC plants and trees- as the "image" they are- i wasn't sure how they were supposed to fit in with the rest of the geometry.. for the most part at first i did think some of them looked really good- but for some time i still questioned their contrast to the geometry.. and then one day it hit me- that "contrast" is just what is needed to let the building stand out in the right way.. i think RPC stuff is really great- and i guess that's why those things are so expensive too.. but you know what? thanks to the good thinking at autodesk- they PACKED revit full of RPC trees and shrubs.. i have groups of trees and shrubs rendered on pieces of floor and labeled and saved as images for reference.. and sometimes the more faded and transparent they look in the background the better the building looks.. and as nice as those DWG cars look- SOMETIMES i think they compete too much with the building for attention..

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hoffmanr

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