From the course: Revit: Site and Context Modeling

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Adding site elements

Adding site elements

In this video, we're going to look at some of the site elements that we can add. This includes things like trees and parking and site furniture. So each of these are just component families, and largely you just place them one at a time where you need them to go. But there are a few little issues that I want to raise when placing some of these items as well. So let's start with maybe the simplest thing that we can add, and that's trees. So I'm going to go to the massing and site tab, and there is a site component button right here. And my rectangular excavation shows up first because that's the last family that I used. But right beneath that, you can see that there is this tree family, and it has several different types available to it. Now, I'm just going to pick the first one, American Beach, but it really doesn't matter which one you choose. You can choose any tree that you like here. And notice that these are highlighting the surfaces of the topography. So all you really need to…

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