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Create a new Autodesk Forma project with a Proposal containing only the terrain and context data for your project site
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Login to the Autodesk Forma application and hub
- Make sure that your enabled Autodesk Forma access for your Autodesk ID.
- Open the Autodesk Forma application and sign in to the Stanford CEE hub using your Autodesk ID.
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Create a new Project
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- For example, for the Global AEC sites;
- Island - Coordinates: 18.4034152691126, -66.0480920001051
- Central - Coordinates: 34.06406832370047, -118.44776888486325
- Pacific - Coordinates: 37.726814025626794, -122.48260451498186
- Ridge - Coordinates: 39.53872675941774, -119.811330859181
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Add Context data to project
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- For Buildings, choose either Open City Model or Open Street Map data.
- The data for both of these sources is similar, but varies a bit based on the latest date it was updated.
- Do not choose both. That would result in duplicate buildings.
- For Terrain, the USGS data has already been imported when you created the project. You don’t need to import any other sources.
- For Roads, choose the Open Street Map data.
- After choosing each data source, click the Order button to confirm that it should be downloaded.
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Create a Proposal containing the base terrain and context data
- Switch to the Navigator tab to see a list of the Proposals in your project.
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- Rename your first proposal to Project Base Site.
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Refine your Base geometry
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Send Your Autodesk Forma Proposal to Revit
- Select the Proposal that you want to send to Revit from the list of proposals in your Autodesk Forma project.
- If you haven’t already installed the Revit add-in, choose Revit > Download Revit add-in, then run the downloaded file to install the add-in.
- Choose the Revit > Send to Revit tool.
Temporary files will be stored in a special folder in your Windows environment.
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Import Your Autodesk Forma Proposal to Revit
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Convert the Autodesk Forma data to Revit elements
- Create a new Revit project using the Default project template.
- Open the Massing & Site > Forma > Load Proposal tool.
- Click the Options button to customize the import settings.
- Adjust the Load Forma Proposal Options.
- Turn off most of the options for creating Revit elements.
- Turn on the Create generic models for all other elements option.
- Turn on all of the options under the Terrain subheading.
- Click the OK button to close the Options dialog.
- Click the Load button to begin loading and converting the data.
- Wait as the Autodesk Forma geometry from your proposal is converted into Revit objects.
- Click OK to close the Open Data Attributions dialog.
- Click OK to close the Warning dialog offering the option to review any warnings.
- Terrain and roads are created as Toposolid elements.
- Adjacent buildings are created as Generic Model elements in a Group that contains all the buildings.
The new Revit elements are displayed:
Note that the conversion also sets accurate project location coordinates and rotation in this Project Site model.
You should use the Manage > Project Location > Acquire Coordinates tool to acquire these same coordinates in any linked Revit models to keep the position and rotation consistently aligned with your Project Site model.
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Clean up the Revit Site project
- To remove any of these buildings:
- Select the group, then choose Modify | Model Groups > Edit Group.
- Delete any Generic Model elements that you’d like to remove.
- Click the green Finish checkmark to close the group.
- Adjust the Levels in the Revit Site project.
- Switch to any elevation view — for example the South elevation.
- Delete Level 1 and Level 2.
- Rename Level 3 to be Project Site Base.
- Switch to the default 3D view named {3D}.
- Change the Graphic Display Options for this {3D} view to Realistic.
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Save Your Revit Site project as a Revit Cloud model
- Open the Collaborate > Collaborate tool.
- Choose the In the Cloud option.
- Navigate to your ACC Project folder and save the project.