CS ArtisanRV Landscape Revit® Solution

The first Cloud-based software solution for landscape Revit® integration

Revit® allows architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, MEP engineers, designers and contractors to design and manage an information rich virtual model collaboratively with full annotation tools and dynamic scheduling.

CS Artisan RV takes this into the landscape – a web-integrated software solution, fully integrated with Revit, with plant libraries and hardworks, dynamically scheduled with 3D visual modelling.

NPS Plant Libraries and Palette Builder – Fully updated for 2018

Access planting libraries, including the full NPS.  Just login or work directly from a Revit© session.  In the Palette Builder, create user-defined list of plants and hardwork elements.   Search by class or sub-class or free-text to refine.  Search plants by characteristic, including:

• Soil type, moisture, Sun/Shade
• Ultimate height/spread; Years to ultimate height
• Foliage type/colour
• Flower colour, feature, season of interest
• Uses

Switch between Metric and imperial

CS Artisan and CS Artisan RV users can now switch  dynamically between Metric and Imperial measurement systems – an absolute requirement for organisations with a global reach.  Toggle your Palette Builder content to suit your design and market requirements – and the translation is instant – and mapped to NPS and USA ANSI equivalent values, dynamically.

Shade Analysis Enhancements

We’ve enhanced our Shade Analysis tool to provide a more robust picture of the impact of the sun on external spaces.  Working closely with a major multi-disciplinary architect’s practice in United Arab Emirates, the tools are currently being taken  through the rigours of landscape design on a “mini-city” model.

Using Shade Analysis: courtesy of Chris Smeaton, BIM Manager at InSite, part of KEO International Consultants.  Chris explains how to automate shade analysis in Revit to achieve BIM4Landscape deliverables.

Automate Clash Detection

Within Navisworks, it is possible to run automated clash detection to identify any issues of conflict with underground services or features (road/paving construction, utilities or features).

Manipulate the topography

In CS ArtisanRV, the Terrain Tools enable easy manipulation of the topo within Revit by selecting model lines, arcs, splines and defining a required gradient that is cut through or built up from the underlying topography.

Leverage Existing Tree Survey Information in your BIM Workflow

In CS ArtisanRV, place existing trees in a model directly from imported survey data, collected on site. Import fields with the field mapping utility.  Auto-match tree families to fully define, size and inform model content.

Parametric Plant Placement

Place plants as specimens, hedges, beds and woodland.  Age and grow.  Add colour and shadow, dynamically.  Select and load from palettes and project on topography, floors or filled regions.

Create planting mixes in the Palette Builder and place as single, linear and area planting regions.

Use NPS libraries of plant growth to create powerful visual interpretations showing age, growth, flower and foliage colour.

Create, measure and visualise shade percentage at defined times of the day, year and geo-location.

Landscape hardworks in Revit®

Add more than just plants – add hardworks elements to run dynamically along your topography.

Create and visualise hardwork elements within your design and automate the landscape across schedules and reports.  Control size and definition of all components, amend and manoeuvre to suit.  Automatically record, report and update schedules with any changes you select.

Revit® Dynamic Scheduling

Full planting schedules are created automatically as the model is defined or modified. All fields are displayed in accordance with the National Plant Specification (NPS) Information and including area and length values.

NEW Landscape Revit® Features: Coming soon!

Imagine fencing, paving and other building materials, automated in your landscape designs.  Backed up with a manufacturer’s product library of exact specifications to build your schedules and collaborate with your contractors, architects and stakeholders.

There’s more to come for hardworks in CS ArtisanRV.  Stay on board and be the first to find out how you can begin to harness Revit as a platform for all your landscape plans, designs and schedules.