Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Creating a Graded Region

This section of the chapter will focus on creating cuts and fills within a site. You do this by lowering and raising points that already exist within the topography. The problem is, after you alter the site, you don't know which part of the site is original, or existing, and which part is new. The objective of the following procedure is to move the site to an existing phase to prepare it for the grading procedure. Follow along:

1. Go to your Site plan, and type VG.
2. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog, click the Imported Categories tab.
3. Deselect contours.dwg.
4. Click OK.
5. Select the toposurface.
6. In the Properties dialog, change Phase Created to Existing.
7. On the Massing & Site tab, click the Graded Region button, as shown ...