Happy New Year! I took a couple weeks off from working on my project to relax and recharge, but I am back now and ready to go!
I am going to begin by preparing some site topography and information to craft an accurate base to work on. The topographic data is from the late 1990s, and fortunately (or unfortunately, depending how you look at it) nothing has changed other than the addition of piles of rubble. Revit does an OK job of rendering topography, but MicroStation or potentially Rhino will be more effective. However, getting these programs to mesh can be quite a challenge.
Next I will work on modeling some of the existing structures which I will be keeping; the machine shop being the most prominent. I do not have measured drawings, but with the hundreds of photographs and aerial photos, and Sandborn Maps I will be able to scale the components fairly accurately.
Lastly, when I have these elements together I will move onto sketching a number of potential schemes.
Stay tuned!