![]() The library for Revit would be a mix of data, 2D, 3D and RPC: You have to start with a good planting database, and Keyscape already have one of those. Here’s our very short summary of what we’d like to see in ‘Keyscape Designer for Revit’: As we said in the TL DR, we need better hardscape tools, better softscape tools and we’d love an integrated Plants database. Keysoft have an open goal in front of them, to plug a gap in the landscape BIM market. We’d be lost without RTV Xporter for instance. We’re happy to pay for Revit extensions where they offer genuine improvements in functionality. How could LANDCADD or Keyscape for Revit help? A typical Revit planting schedule with live data from the planting areas in the model For those, we use a version of Lauren Schmidt’s hack, which you can find over at LandarchBIM. Planting beds with mixed plants, which aren’t actually modelled are harder. Fences, bollards, benches and anything tangible is also very easy. Modelling trees in Revit, at least as lollipops, is simple. Civils design such as road modelling is a nightmare, but at least Autodesk have solutions which are slowly becoming compatible with a Revit workflow, i.e. Revit makes some things easy, and some things very hard. So if we’re doing Landscape in Revit, how do we do it currently? We’d end up duplicating half of the design. How on earth could we separate out the ‘landscape’ and do it in AutoCAD? Even with something like Keyscape Design Studio, AutoCAD just doesn’t make sense. Our landscape appointment was for the hardscape (the paving), the planting design, the tree specification and the ecology. For the project above, we as architects designed the site layout, the split level pond, the deck, the car parks, the cycle paths, the fences, the bollards and even the concept for the public art. ![]() It’s hard to define where architecture stops and landscape starts. A recent project where we did both the architecture and the landscape The workflow is terrible though, because at the moment you pretty much have to hack Revit to do Landscape. In fact we already do our Landscape in Revit too. We’re a multi-disciplinary practice doing architecture + landscape and we already use Revit. The answer to this is easy: Revit is the No.1 BIM platform by a long way. Let’s just get the obvious question out of the way – why Revit? Keysoft have now merged Keyscape with LandCADD to become ‘Keyscape LandCADD’, but it’s AutoCAD only, and they have ‘no plans’ to bring it to Revit.Ĭheck out CS Artisan RV instead, for a Revit-based landscape application. Revit needs some Softscape tools, some Hardscape tools, and every Landscape designer needs a great Plants Database! UPDATE, June 2016: They responded by asking what we’d like to see in any future Revit version, so this post is our manifesto. We reached out to the new owners to ask about future Revit integration, and got a positive response. LANDCADD is a landscape software package largely based around AutoCAD, but which also (until recently) had some limited Revit integration. ![]() We learned recently that UK-based Keysoft Solutions has purchased LANDCADD from developer Eagle Point. An extract from a Revit planting plan created using the Areas tool (a bit of a hack…) ![]()
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