Naviate Environment Features
External Civil Data
Insert and manage information models created by a road engineer in Civil 3D or other programs and exported to a LandXML format.
Planting Family
Manage all Planting Families in your project from a single interface, or easily create new Planting Families from scratch. Create beautiful 2D and 3D representations of plants with our default geometry library or import your own geometry through the interface. Review and edit multiple types’ parameters manually or in bulk by importing an external database.
Scan to Model
Automatically create an editable topography (Toposurface or Toposolid) from a selected Point Cloud file and use it as reference to place levels.
Approximate Wall Path
Quickly turn any wall into a sequence of a few straight walls. You can predefine the spacing and rotation of these wall segments
Arrange Walls
Automatically create stepped walls that follow the slope of a surface by dividing a wall into segments that match the elevation of a reference surface.
Edit Wall in Place
Freeform editing of the top or bottom face of walls.
Stretch Walls
Change the top or base offset of multiple walls at once.
Complete Slab
Create a new slab (Floor or Roof) from an opening or hole in an existing slab. The hole can be created any way you choose; outlined by slab boundary, using an Opening element or cut with a Void element.
Curb Ramp
Create a curb ramp leading from one Revit slab to an adjoining slab, using a set of pre-defined parameters, to connect the street with the sidewalk.
Match Slope
Slope a Floor or a Roof according to a designated, parallel slab slope.
For example, use this tool to slope a floor by a linked slab.
Shape by Typography
Draping slab’s sub-elements in alignment with a selected topography.
Terracing Slope
Create terraces that follow the slope of the selected surfaces.
Wall Railing
Automatically place railing hosted on a wall or chain of walls.
Select Railing
Automatically select all railings on a host.
Flip Railing
Flip multiple railings at a time. For example, when you need to switch the side of a handrail.
Paste Curb
Use a railing element to create a curb by picking the edge of a floor, roof, or topography.
Check Elevation
Place smart annotations on Model Lines to show their relative height. Use these annotations to modify the line’s elevation.
Set Elevation of Model Line
Define and manipulate the elevation of these Model Lines, and later turn them into topography surfaces (Toposurface or Toposolid) using the Add Line feature. You can set the line’s elevation one by one, or by crossing over multiple lines.
Snap Work Plane
Create a Work Plane at a selected elevation by picking a reference point in the model, and draw model lines at the elevation of this Work Plane. Allows an easy and convenient workflow for grading, since you can then use these model lines to create a Topography surface.
Create Slab Contours
Define the line style of the contours and the vertical distance (elevation difference) between these lines.
Delete Slab Contours
Using this command deletes all "check elevation" text labels.
Extract Surface Countours
Convert toposurfaces to independent model lines.
Update Slab Contours
Update the appearance, vertical distance and the elevation base of existing contour lines.
Alignment Tools
Design roads and pathways using the Alignment Category in Revit.
An alignment is a native Revit category, originally designed for collaboration with infrastructure projects and Civil disciplines. It is a 3D line that represents the center of a certain road. Using the Alignment tool, you can define the elevations and slopes of each part of the Alignment as well as add a Cross-Section to control the roads width and overall shape. Once your alignment is done, a reference surface is embedded in it, so you can extract a topography that follows your road design.
Create Excavation
Automatically create an excavation topography under selected elements in your model.
Extract Typography
Generate a topography surface based on an existing Alignment element in your Revit model.
Floor to Toposolid
Create a Toposolid from any Floor in your project.
Match Reference Surface
Easily shape your Topography slope using elevation points from another Topography or Alignment. The points can be outside or inside the new Toposolid boundary.
Modify Typography
Smoothly reshape and sculpt any existing topography (i.e., Toposolid or Toposurface) in your model, with the “modify Topography’ collection of tools. Using these tools, you can control the surface as if it was a mesh, inflate or deflate it, or simply smooth the surface or selected areas on it.
Scan to Model
Automatically create an editable topography (Toposurface or Toposolid) from a selected Point Cloud file and use it as reference to place levels.
Typography Tools
The Topography Tools command allows you to create and edit Toposolid and Toposurface using a wide range of features, such as: Place Point, From Edge, From Line and more. Using the Topography Tools to edit or create a topography you can switch between one tool to another while designing your surface to get the desired result. You can change the surface’s category from Toposolid to Toposurface and back.
Elevation Analysis
Create a color representation of the selected Toposurface’s elevations according to the preset coloring rules for every topography elevation range. You can use the Material Takeoff tool to calculate the area of each range.
Slope Analysis
Create a color representation of the selected Toposurface’s slops according to the preset coloring rules for every topography slope range. You can use the Material Takeoff tool to calculate the area of each range.
Align to Surface
Align elements with multiple surfaces without assigning a Host to elements.
Area Scatter
Place multiple elements in a selected area according to a set of predefined rules. The selected area can be any modeled or linked surface like Floors, Roofs, Toposurfaces, or Subregions, or an abstract area such as Areas, Rooms, Zones, or Spaces.
Line Scatter
Place multiple objects along a line or a chain of lines with multiple positioning options.
Planting Family
Manage all Planting Families in your project from a single interface, or easily create new Planting Families from scratch. Create beautiful 2D and 3D representations of plants with our default geometry library or import your own geometry through the interface. Review and edit multiple types’ parameters manually or in bulk by importing an external database.
Rockery Element
Automatically create rocks of different sizes (or any other site element) and place them on a host or selected level.
Rotate Elements
Rotate selected elements in the model using a fixed or random angle.
Export to LandXML
Collaborate with your team and export topographies and slab surfaces to Civil 3D using LandXML file format.
External Civil Data
Insert and manage information models created by a road engineer in Civil 3D or other programs and exported to a LandXML format.
Get Blocks
Use blocks from a CAD link to place family instances in the correct location and elevation for your project.
Import List
Import data from an Excel spreadsheet to create topography or to place Revit family instances at specified coordinates and automatically populate the instance parameters of the placed elements based on the data in the spreadsheet. Ideal for workflows involving GIS data, survey points, or external design tools where element placement and parameter data is managed outside Revit.
Rhino Assets
Bring elements from a Rhino file into Revit and turn them into native Revit elements.
Range Legend
Create a color legend for the topography analysis tool to represent the analysis result.
Range Legend Settings
Define the graphics settings of a Range Legend.
Wall Grid
Automatically create grid heads that are correctly placed on wall edges, and perpendicular to the wall. You can then create a Wall Layout elevation to represent the wall’s accurate dimensions.
Family Thumbnail
Create thumbnails for the families in your model and add them as images parameter in the Family Type. You can then add this parameter to your schedules to present them as legends.
Object Outline
Automatically create material-matched filled regions to cover pattern deformation on sloped surfaces.
Property Line Projection
Creates a detail line to represent Property Lines on a section plan or an elevation view that intersects the property line. All Property Lines that exist on the view will be detected automatically.
Typography Profile
Create a 2D representation of a surface profile in a section or elevation view. The Typography Profile command automatically creates a detail line or a spline that follows the cut topography.
Update Object Outline
Update all the filled regions of the view or of the entire project
Update Wall Layout
Update an Elevation View previously created using the Wall Layout tool.
Wall Layout
Create wall layout elevation to represent the true dimensions of the wall.
Assembly Content Settings
Add and set the preferences for the Assembly Content Parameter (a parameter automatically created for assemblies made by Environment) and the content for the the assembly tag.
Planting Region
Automatically create Filled Regions to cover and represent Planting elements or Planting Assemblies on any Floor Plan View in your project.
Tree Connection Line
Connect individual Planting family items using a detail line to improve tagging and presentation of planting plans.
Free Measure
In 3D view, measure the distance between two points in space. Freely snap and measure the distance between two or more points located in 3D space.
Path Lenght
Measure the length of a path or projection of lines. This tool is especially useful in cases where you have a few lines above other lines, and you need to know the path length instead of the sum of the length of these lines.
Total Length
Measure the length of one or more model lines. This tool is useful when you use 2D drawings as a quick sketch in the design process and need to know the sum totals of path distances.
