Revit does not work for site or landscape.
Let’s put it this way — if the only way to draw a Window in Revit was to create a Door out of Glass and then just pretend it’s a window, architects wouldn’t use it. But that’s what landscape architects have to do if they want to use it. There’s no way to draw a Curb, so you have to draw little Walls, or a bunch of raised Flooring, and pretend it’s all curbs.
There’s also no ability to label groups of plants, unless you first create an ad-hoc Group out of them, which is time-consuming and cumbersome.
It’s just a gigantic nightmare.
The thing is, there’s no reason to use it. The building can be exported quickly to Sketchup.
So the landscape team can stay with an AutoCAD/Sketchup software load, and Sketchup can be the 3D interchange format for all the disciplines.
There’s plenty of other disciplines that are not going to use Revit — Civil, Irrigation, and in the case of theme parks, Ride Design. So to say Revit *has* be used is incorrect. What is correct is to find an appropriate 3D interchange format, which Sketchup fits exactly.
–J
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