How do you create a Revit Surface from a Civil 3D Surface?

I get this question at least a couple of times a month...I always dutifully answer usually with More than anyone wanted to really know how it's done and what really is going on.  Sorry, about that folks...It's just the way I'm built. Then I always forget to do a post...Dooh!

Lucky for me and the rest of you Chris Fuggit did a post on the topic and even made a video...ain't the web wonderful. I'm taking a hint from his great 3D Reminders idea and making this short record of it.

Many civil firms are multidiscipline houses. Many of you do structural as well as land work. Revit Structure continues to gain functionality and support. Many of you may be ETABS users so when I saw the following on the Autodesk feed and I thought it was worth noting. Note the support for BOTH 2009 and 2010.

ETABS and Revit Structure

Computers and Structures, Inc., has officially released a new version of CSIxRevit that is compatible with both Revit Structure 2009 and Revit Structure 2010. Since it supports both versions of Revit Structure, CSI has officially renamed the product CSIxRevit.

A list of some of the new enhancements is below:

- Several enhancements have been made to CSIxRevit handle the situation where ETABS and Revit use different standard names for the same frame section property and no mapping file has been provided by the user for this section: (1) European and British sections names are mapped between the two programs in cases where the correspondence is known. This mapping is automatic and two way.(2) When no corresponding section name can be found, a new section or family is created with the same name and given default properties. The user can then define the correct properties for the created section, and the correspondence will be maintained for all subsequent data transfer using that same model. (3) A new ETABS section database file CISC9.PRO has been provided for current Canadian steel sections.

- CSIxRevit for ETABS has been updated to support both Revit Structure 2009 and 2010, and is available in either 32- or 64-bit versions.

- The “Frame Section Mapping” and the “.PRO Files” forms used to show the mapping between Revit models and ETABS models have been enhanced to make it easier to see the location of the ETABS section-property database files.

- The CSIxRevit documentation has been updated to better describe the mapping of deck section properties/families between ETABS and Revit Structure.

- An enhancement has been implemented that allows material properties that have been created or modified in ETABS to be updated in Revit when exporting the model from ETABS to Revit.

For more information about the link can be found here: http://www.csiberkeley.com/Revit/

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