Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Adding Building Pads to Displace Earth

When you need to displace a volume of earth, you use a tool exclusive to the Massing & Site tab to do so. By placing a building pad into your model, you tell Revit that you want to cut the earth away from this area while still leaving the earth beneath a certain elevation. For example, if you want to remove the earth from the basement (which you'll be doing), but you still need the earth to exist beneath the basement, you must place a building pad.

To place a building pad into the model, follow this procedure:

1. In the Project Browser, go to the T.O. Footing plan. It's located in the Structural category.
2. On the Massing & Site tab, click the Building Pad button, as shown in Figure 18.21.

   FIGURE 18.21 The ...