Building Information Modeling for Structural Engineering We had been watching building information The foundation of BIM modeling for several years but were unable to fi nd a structural design product that did what we for structural engineering. Integrated tools for modeling, coordination, analysis, design needed. When we saw the demo of Autodesk Revit documentation, as well as shop drawings and fabrication. Structure, we knew that there was fi nally a solution. ® — David Pluke Autodesk Principal and VP of Technology ® Ericksen Roed & Associates, Inc. Revit Structure 2010

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Autodesk® Revit Structure software off ers concurrent Autodesk Revit Structure focuses on the modeling of Autodesk Revit Structure has a comprehensive set of modeling for structural design, analysis, and coordinated multimaterial building structures and bidirectionally dedicated tools to deliver structural drawings and reduce documentation. links with widely-used analysis and design programs. errors due to manual coordination of design changes.

Autodesk Revit Structure software improves the Collaboration with Architects Whether engineers are designing steel, cast-in- Design Options Autodesk Revit Structure inspires structural Material-specifi c tools help ensure that construction Automatic Drawing Sheet References Schedules Building information way structural engineers and drafters work. It Autodesk Revit Structure software also supports the place concrete, precast concrete, masonry, or With Autodesk Revit Structure, engineers stay engineers to greater engineering insight: user- documents conform to industry and offi ce standards. This functionality helps ensure that no section, Save time by creating schedules on demand, modeling signifi cantly minimizes repetitive modeling and drawing tasks, workfl ow where structural modeling starts with an wood structures, standard modeling objects in focused on structural engineering. Explore design defi ned rules help the analytical models adjust elevation, or callout references the wrong drawing and update the model and views automatically improves the quality as well as errors due to manual coordination architectural design done in AutoCAD® Architecture Autodesk Revit Structure software include walls, changes. Develop and study several design their location to the analytical projection planes For steel, features such as beam coping and or sheet and that all data and graphics, details, simply by making a change in a schedule. Schedule between structural engineers, architects, and software. Engineers can reference individual plan beam systems, columns, slabs, and foundations. alternatives to make key design decisions. Easily of attached or adjacent structural elements. automatic symbolic cutbacks, as well as an extensive schedules, drawings, and sheets in the drawing set features include sorting, fi ltering, grouping, and and accuracy of the drafters. It helps reduce time spent producing fi nal views from AutoCAD Architecture when they start Additional structural objects can be created as present multiple schematic designs to clients. Engineers can automatically check analytical library of detail components, are available. are current and coordinated. counting, as well as user-defi ned formulas. information that we construction drawings and increases the accuracy their structural layout. For better coordination, parametric components. Each option can be substituted into the model for inconsistencies such as missing supports, global of documentation, improving overall project structural engineers can export 3D Autodesk visualization and quantity takeoff to help team instabilities, or framing anomalies before sending Details push downstream. Our deliverables for clients. Revit Structure models to AutoCAD Architecture. Parametric Components members and clients make informed decisions. the model to structural analysis. The analysis Autodesk Revit Structure allows callouts for construction documents Architects using AutoCAD Architecture 2009 can Using Autodesk Revit Structure, engineers can programs then return the design information typical details and for specifi c ones. Entire sheets review the exported structural elements as true create many types of structural components, such and dynamically update the physical model and of typical details can be created from scratch in are created directly AutoCAD Architecture objects. as joist systems, beams, open web joists, trusses, documentation, eliminating many redundant, Autodesk Revit Structure using its traditional 2D from the Autodesk and intelligent wall families. No programming repetitive tasks such as modeling frames and drafting tools. Revit Structure model. Engineers working with architects using language is required to use parametric shells in a variety of diff erent applications. Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software can components, also known as families. The family If the model is correct, experience the advantages of BIM and share the editor contains all the data to graphically represent Autodesk Revit Structure integrates with then the drawings are same underlying building database. Creation of an element in 2D and 3D at various levels of detail. Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis the structural model is faster with integrated Professional software as well as other widely-used automatically correct. Autodesk Revit platform tools. With interference analysis and design applications. To fi nd out which As a result, we’re able checking between structural and architectural software partners have linked their applications objects, engineers can quickly detect coordination to Autodesk Revit Structure through the Revit® For concrete structures, display options provide to spend a lot less time problems before sending drawings to the platform API (application programming interface), control over the visibility of the concrete elements. producing documentation Seamless Coordination construction site. visit www.autodesk.com/autodeskrevitstructure. Reinforcement bars are also available for concrete and more time up front Because Autodesk Revit Structure uses building elements such as columns, beams, walls, and information modeling (BIM), every view, drawing Collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical, and Integrate with Leading Analysis and Design foundations. modeling the structure. sheet, and schedule represents the same Plumbing Engineers Physical models drive construction underlying database. As project team members Structural engineers working with mechanical, documentation. Drafters use physical models to — Jim Jacobi work on the same project, making inevitable electrical, or plumbing engineers using AutoCAD® produce the drawing and detail sheets. Engineers Principal and necessary changes to the building structure, MEP software can improve design coordination. and architects use it for coordination purposes, Designers can also import DWG™ details from Walter P. Moore parametric change technology in Autodesk Revit Autodesk Revit Structure users can export their such as interference checking. AutoCAD® software and linked into Autodesk Structure automatically coordinates changes across structural model into AutoCAD MEP, where Revit Structure, using the project browser to all other representations of the project—model the MEP engineer can perform clash detection Multiuser Collaboration The analytical model contains information such manage them. views, drawing sheets, schedules, sections, plans, between pipes and structural elements. Autodesk Autodesk Revit Structure enables multiple as loads, load combinations, member sizes, and and details. The design and documentation stay Revit Structure can also import 3D duct and pipe team members on the same network to work release conditions for use in leading third-party Specifi c details come directly from the views of the coordinated, consistent, and complete. objects from AutoCAD MEP into the structural together on a model, while their work stays fully analysis applications. The analytical model model. These model-based details are completed model via ACIS® solids to detect interferences coordinated. A complete range of collaboration could be the entire building model, one wing of with 2D parametric components (metal deck, Bidirectional Associativity visually. In addition, structural engineers who are modes provides fl exibility to meet the project the building, or even a single structural frame. concrete masonry unit, anchor bolts in footings, The building model and all of its views are part of working with MEP engineers using Autodesk® team’s workfl ow—from on-the-fl y, simultaneous Engineers use selection fi lters with structural fasteners, welded symbols, steel connection the same information system. This means changes Revit® MEP software can take full advantage of access to the shared model to formal division boundary conditions to send substructures (such plates, concrete rebar, and more) and annotations Engineers and project managers can use to any part of the structure need to be made building information modeling. of the project into discrete shared units or as a frame, fl oor, or wing of the building) to their such as text and dimensions. customized schedules to check the overall only once, maintaining consistency throughout individually managed linked models. analysis software without sending the entire Automatic Sections and Elevations structural design. For example, they can schedule the documentation set. For example, if the sheet model. Creating sections and elevations in Autodesk When the geometry gets complicated, Autodesk and review structural loads before integrating scale changes, the software automatically resizes Revit Structure is simple compared to traditional Revit Structure off ers 3D model-based details such as the model with analysis software. If the load annotations and graphics. If a structural member The creation of the analytical model uses methods. Because views are just a diff erent 3D representation of building expansion joints, steel value needs to be changed, it can be modifi ed changes, any views that include the element are engineering rules to produce a consistent representation of the entire building model, users connections, rebar in concrete elements, and more. in the schedule and automatically coordinated coordinated and updated automatically, including analytical representation of the physical structure. get instant cuts throughout a structure. Use them throughout the model. name tags and other labels referring to the Engineers can override initial analytical settings at any time to work in the most appropriate view. element properties. and edit the analytical model before linking to When the construction documents are ready to structural analysis packages. print, section tags and elevation symbols of the views that are not placed onto any drawing sheet are automatically hidden.