Autodesk Revit Structure 2011 Overview Brochure Us

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The power o BIMor structural engineering.

Autodesk

Revit

Structure


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mprove Eciency, Accuracy, and Coordination

Autodesk Revit Structure sotware improves

the way structural engineers and draters work.

Revit Structure helps minimize repetitive modeling

and drawing tasks as well as errors due to manual

coordination between structural engineers,

architects, and draters. The sotware helps reduce

time spent producing nal construction drawings

and helps increase the accuracy o documentation,

improving overall project deliverables or clients.

Smoother CoordinationBecause Autodesk Revit Structure uses building

inormation modeling (BIM), every view, drawing

sheet, and schedule represents the same underlying

database. As project team members work on the

same project, making inevitable and necessary

changes to the building structure, parametric change

technology in Autodesk Revit Structure automatically

coordinates changes across all other representations

o the projectmodel views, drawing sheets,

schedules, sections, plans, and details. The design

and documentation stay coordinated, consistent,

and complete.

Bidirectional Associativity

The building model and all o its views are part othe same inormation system. This means changes

to any part o the structure need to be made

only once, maintaining consistency throughout

the documentation set. For example, i the sheet

scale changes, the sotware automatically resizes

annotations and graphics. I a structural member

changes, any views that include the element are

coordinated and updated automatically, including

name tags and other labels reerring to the

element properties.

Building inormationmodeling signiicantlyimproves the qualityand accuracy o theinormation that wepush downstream. Our

construction documentsare created directlyrom the AutodeskRevit Structure model.I the model is correct,then the drawings areautomatically correct.As a result, we are ableto spend a lot less timeproducing documentation

and more time up rontmodeling the structure.

Jim JacobiPrincipalWalter P. Moore

Concurrent modeling or structural design, analysis, andcoordinated documentation

Collaboration with Architects

Engineers working with architects using Autod

Revit Architecture sotware can experience th

advantages o BIM and share the same underly

building database. Creation o the structural

model is aster with integrated Autodesk Rev

platorm tools. With intererence checking bet

structural and architectural objects, engineers

more quickly detect coordination problems be

sending drawings to the construction site.

Collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical, an

Plumbing Engineers

Structural engineers working with mechanical,

electrical, or plumbing engineers using AutoCA

MEP sotware can improve design coordination

Autodesk Revit Structure users can export thei

structural model into AutoCAD MEP, where the

MEP engineer can perorm clash detection bet

pipes and structural elements. Autodesk Revit

Structure can also import D duct and pipe obj

rom AutoCAD MEP into the structural model v

ACIS solids to help detect intererences visua

In addition, structural engineers who are workiwith MEP engineers using Autodesk Revit M

sotware can take better advantage o building

inormation modeling.


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Whether engineers are designing steel, castin

lace concrete, precast concrete, masonry, or

wood structures, standard modeling objects in

utodesk Revit Structure sotware include walls,

eam systems, columns, slabs, and oundations.

dditional structural objects can be created as

arametric components.

arametric Components

sing Autodesk Revit Structure, engineers canreate many types o structural components, such

s joist systems, beams, open web joists, trusses,

nd intelligent wall amilies. No programming

anguage is required to use parametric components,

lso known asfamilies. The amily editor contains all

he data to graphically represent an element in 2D

nd 3D at various levels o detail.

Multiuser Collaboration

utodesk Revit Structure enables multiple team

members on the same network to work together on

model, while their work stays ully coordinated.

wide range o collaboration modes provides

more fexibility to better meet the project teams

workfowrom onthefy, simultaneous access tohe shared model to ormal division o the project

nto discrete shared units or individually managed

nked models.

Design Options

With Autodesk Revit Structure, engineers can stay

ocused on structural engineering. The sotware

enables users to explore design changes, develop

and study several design alternatives to make key

design decisions, and more easily present multiple

schematic designs to clients. Each option can be

substituted into the model or visualization and

quantity takeo to help team members and clients

make more inormed decisions.

Leading Analysis and Design Integration

Analytical models created with Autodesk Revit

Structure contain inormation such as loads,

load combinations, member sizes, and release

conditions. The analytical model can be the entire

building model, one wing o the building, or even

a single structural rame. Engineers use selection

lters with structural boundary conditions to send

substructures (such as a rame, foor, or wing o

the building) to their analysis sotware without

the need to send the entire model.

The creation o the analytical model uses

engineering rules to produce a consistent analyticalrepresentation o the physical structure. Engineers

can override initial analytical settings and edit the

analytical model beore linking to structural

analysis packages.

Enhance Structural Modeling and Analysis Capabilities

Autodesk Revit Structure can inspire structural

engineers to greater engineering insight: user

dened rules help the analytical models adjust

their location to the analytical projection plane

attached or adjacent structural elements. Engin

can automatically check analytical inconsistenc

such as missing supports, global instabilities, o

raming anomalies beore sending the model to

structural analysis.

The analysis programs then return the design

inormation and dynamically update the physic

model and documentation, minimizing many

redundant, repetitive tasks such as modeling r

and shells in a variety o dierent applications.

Autodesk Revit Structure integrates with Autod

Robot Structural Analysis Proessional sotwa

as well as other widely used analysis and design

applications. To nd out which sotware partne

have linked their applications to Autodesk Revi

Structure through the Autodesk Revit plato

API (application programming interace), visit

http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure .

Help save time by creating physical and analyticalstructural models in a single application.


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Deliver Comprehensive Construction Documents

Materialspecic tools help construction documents

onorm to industry and oce standards.

or steel, eatures such as beam coping and automatic

ymbolic cutbacks as well as an extensive library o

etail components, are available.

or concrete structures, display options provide

ontrol over the visibility o the concrete elements.

einorcement bars are also available or concrete

lements, including columns, beams, walls,nd oundations.

Automatic Sections and Elevations

reating sections and elevations in Autodesk Revit

tructure is more simple compared to traditional

methods. Because views are just a dierent

epresentation o the entire building model, users

et cuts aster throughout a structure. Use them

t any time to work in the most appropriate view.

When the construction documents are ready to

rint, section tags and elevation symbols o the

iews that are not placed onto any drawing sheetre automatically hidden.

Automatic Drawing Sheet References

This unctionality helps saeguard that no section,

elevation, or callout reerences the wrong drawing

or sheet and that all data and graphics, details,

schedules, drawings, and sheets in the drawing set

are current and coordinated.

Details

Autodesk Revit Structure allows callouts or

typical details and or specic ones. Entire sheetso typical details can be created rom scratch in

Autodesk Revit Structure using its traditional 2D

drating tools.

Designers can also import DWG details rom

AutoCAD sotware and link them into Autodesk

Revit Structure, using the project browser to

manage them.

Specic details come directly rom the views o the

model. These modelbased details are completed

with 2D parametric components (metal deck,

concrete masonry unit, anchor bolts in ootings,

asteners, welded symbols, steel connection plates,concrete rebar, and more) and annotations such as

text and dimensions.

When the geometry gets complicated, Autodesk

Revit Structure oers D modelbased details such

as D representation o building expansion joints,

steel connections, rebar in concrete elements, and more.

Schedules

Help save time by creating schedules on deman

and update the model and views automatically

simply by making a change in a schedule. Sched

eatures include sorting, ltering, grouping, and

counting as well as userdened ormulas.

Engineers and project managers can use custom

schedules to check the overall structural design

example, they can schedule and review structu

loads beore integrating the model with analys

sotware. I the load value needs to be changed

can be modied in the schedule and automatic

coordinated throughout the model.

Use a comprehensive set o dedicated tools to deliverstructural drawings and help reduce errors due to manual

coordination o design changes.


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Building Inormation Modeling or Structural Engineering

BIM or structural engineers ollows this same

methodology or the entire structural engineering

process, ocusing on a digital model that can be

used or coordination with architects; mechanical,

electrical, and plumbing engineers; and civil

engineers that is integrated with analysis, design,

and construction documentation, and extendingthat digital model rom design through abrication

and construction.

Autodesk Revit Structure

Autodesk Revit Structure sotware is the

building inormation modeling (BIM) solution

structural engineers, providing purposebuilt to

or structural design, analysis and documentati

Make better decisions, earlier in the design pro

by more accurately visualizing and analyzingstructures, beore they are built.

uilding inormation modeling (BIM) is an

ntegrated process built on coordinated, reliable

normation about a project rom design through

onstruction and into operations. By adopting

IM, architects, engineers, contractors, and

wners can more easily create coordinated, digital

esign inormation and documentation; use thatnormation to visualize, simulate, and analyze

erormance, appearance, and cost; and reliably

eliver the project aster, more economically, and

with reduced environmental impact.

Make better decisions, earlier in the design process bymore accurately visualizing and analyzing structures, beore

they are built.


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We had been watching building inormationmodeling or several years but were unable to nd astructural design product that did what we needed.When we saw the demo o Autodesk Revit Structure,we knew that there was nally a solution.

David PlukePrincipal and VP o TechnologyEricksen Roed & Associates, Inc.