#AU2011 Revit for Presentations - Graphics That "POP" - Video and Materials

Video was not available the first day that Autodesk University announced but it seems like all has been resolved and it can be shared with the community of users.

Thanks to everyone who filled out the surveys.  David and I beat the average rating for every category and we enjoyed hearing what you thought in the comments.  Also, thanks to the bloggers spreading the word and showing an interest in what we presented. Revitdialog, What Revit Wants, Shades of Grey, Revit Sticky Notes and probably others I am missing.

There have been a few questions since the session and I thought others might benefit from the responses:

QUESTION: Why did you use BASIC ROOF to model the parcels and roads?  Can an In-Place Mass be used instead?

ANSWER: There are a couple reasons to use basic roofs after one has modeled the site using a conceptual mass.  The first reason for me is that one can model the sloped site and then the roof elements applied to the mass can be raised or lowered a specific elevation.  This helps show curbs and road depressions better.  The second reason is that less information needs to be entered in the roof compared to a conceptual or in-place mass to control through material assignments and filters.  Usually, in-place masses are mostly instance driven and the larger the project the more one would have wished they could have used type parameters.  The final reason is that I found it easier to schedule roof elements for things like green space, impervious surface and other site requirements.

QUESTION: I have been reviewing the content for use in some Urban Planning work by our planners and I have a question about the below graphic which is not part of any of the datasets.  Were these all in Revit?  The bottom one looks like a rendering while the left one looks like Revit with some transparency added.  The left one is very pleasing with a kind of sketchy feeling. Is it two view composited, one with linework only and another with shading or real colors?

ANSWER: You are correct that the bottom image is the only one in the entire presentation that was rendered.  The left image that you are refering to is just one image with the obstructing buildings being ghosted.  I appologize for the file not being in the dataset but here is a link to it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6543805/Revit%20Graphics%20Popular%20Colors.zip

OTHER QUESTIONS: If I missed an email or comment please let me know and I will get back to you.

Other materials can be found here:

Handout - http://www.box.com/s/ai4gm0bhzxc7ify5yax0

Powerpoint - http://www.box.com/s/uhpcami65z24kjcpxpe0

Dataset -  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6543805/AB4564-Dataset.zip

Handout (Mirror Site) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6543805/AB4564-Handout.zip
Powerpoint (Mirror Site) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6543805/AB4564-Presentation.zip 

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Comments

[plumbing]

That is really a good design, with some full graphics intended.
I wish, I could learn how to use autocad.

[Brian]

Great presentation! We have been looking for something like this for some time. We get a lot of push back because people don't think Revit can produce presentable graphics. You mentioned that the cartographic symbols and also the people/birds would be in the dataset but I can't seem to find them. Am I not looking in the right place? If they aren't there, would it be possible to get those as well? Thanks in advance.