Good afternoon,
Please, I would like to ask if irrigation Land F/X can work perfectly with Revit?
In our company, we are considering moving to Revit instead of Autocad, so will it be easy in regard with the irrigation design as in Land F/X..
looking to hear your experiences.
Thanks in Advance,
Nibal
Nibal,
Irrigation will never work perfectly in Revit, primarily due to the fact that there are no Irrigation object types in Revit. So the only way to do an irrigation plan there is by drawing Model lines.
We are working on an initial Irrigation plugin for Revit, that will start with the ability to export the mainline placement from CAD, and import them as Model lines into Revit. This will be released later this year.
The ideal setup would be to use Revit to export a revised base xref as needed, and still do the design in CAD.
--J
Thanks for the response and input!
Cheers!
Benji
Yes, having every single sprinkler represented in 3D in Revit would be "out there", or better put, completely bonkers. There is just absolutely no reason to do that, especially as there is no object type for any of this.
As for Navisworks, that can import DWG files! So there is no reason to send a design to Revit first in order to use Navisworks.
The current status of our Revit Irrigation development is as follows:
- Send the mainline design from CAD to the cloud
- in Revit, import the mainline as Railing objects, at the desired depth below grade
- Possibly as well, place Valve Boxes for each valve (this of course is just as troublesome as it might be helpful - valves are commonly not placed where they will be located, and multiple valves can fit in one box, so how is the system to decide where to put the box and how many to place?)
So overall, we are currently focused only on placing the Mainline as sub-grade Railing. Which also speaks to just how insanely limiting and unusable Revit is for irrigation. It merits repeating again and again, and recanted back to any consultants who ask you to "put the irrigation into the 3D model".
Hopefully as Autodesk can open up the object types in Revit to better encompass Irrigation, we are poised and ready to do something.
--J
I'm late to the conversation but I am curious as to where things are at with irrigation in Revit.
J - Per your previous response to Nibal, as an irrigation designer, what I would hope the revit would do is build a 3D model, similar to the what the planting is, that would show the varying depths of the pipes, valves, and heads. In my head it would be cool if when you went to the 3D view it showed the valve and head rather than the symbol (but I realize that would be really out there
). I ask because I have some clients that are wanting us to put things in Navisworks (I have never used Navisworks) but if we were designing in 3D in revit already then why use Navisworks.Cheers!
Benji
We were just looking at Revit yesterday and discussing how to handle Valves.
The good news, is that the ability to send the Mainline to Revit is working great, and will be released later this year. The other news, however, is that we are really not sure how to handle Valves, Sprinklers, and everything else. In fact even the Mainline has us wondering, if designers are expecting Plumbing objects to be used to assemble the actual pipe. We are still looking for any input from designers who can give us some guidance on what they are expecting from Revit.
--J
Nibal,
Irrigation will never work perfectly in Revit, primarily due to the fact that there are no Irrigation object types in Revit. So the only way to do an irrigation plan there is by drawing Model lines.
We are working on an initial Irrigation plugin for Revit, that will start with the ability to export the mainline placement from CAD, and import them as Model lines into Revit. This will be released later this year.
The ideal setup would be to use Revit to export a revised base xref as needed, and still do the design in CAD.
--J
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