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components such as trees, shrubs, parking spaces, accessories, and vehicles
(Figure 13.5).

FIgUre 13.5 A toposurface can host components such as trees, entourage, and vehicles.

The site tools in Revit Architecture are intended only to be used for the cre-
ation of basic elements, including topography, property lines, and building pads.
Although editing utilities are available to manipulate the site elements, these
tools are not meant to be used for civil engineering like the functionality found
in Autodesk ® AutoCAD ® Civil 3D ® .
In the following sections, you'll learn about the different ways to create and
modify a toposurface and how to model a building pad in a toposurface.

toposurface
As its name suggests, a toposurface is a surface-based representation of
the topography context supporting a project. It is not modeled as a solid in
Revit Architecture; however, a toposurface will appear as if it were a solid in
any section cut view, as in the 3D view with a section box enabled shown in
Figure 13.6.

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