Autodesk® Revit® Structure software is the building information modeling (BIM) solution for structural engineers, providing purpose-built tools for structural design, analysis and documentation. Make better decisions, earlier in the design process by more accurately visualizing and analyzing structures, before they are built.
Autodesk Revit Structure software improves the way structural engineers and drafters work. Revit Structure helps minimize repetitive modeling and drawing tasks as well as errors due to manual coordination between structural engineers, architects, and drafters. The software helps reduce time spent producing final construction drawings and helps increase the accuracy of documentation, improving overall project deliverables for clients.
Smoother Coordination
Because Autodesk Revit Structure uses building information 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 of the project—model views, drawing sheets, schedules, sections, plans, and details. The design and documentation stay coordinated, consistent, and complete.
Bidirectional Associativity
The building model and all of its views are part of the same information system. This means changes to any part of the structure need to be made only once, maintaining consistency throughout the documentation set. For example, if the sheet scale changes, the software automatically resizes annotations and graphics. If a structural member changes, any views that include the element are coordinated and updated automatically, including name tags and other labels referring to the element properties.
Collaboration with Architects
Engineers working with architects using Autodesk? Revit? Architecture software can experience the advantages of BIM and share the same underlying building database. Creation of the structural model is faster with integrated Autodesk Revit platform tools. With interference checking between structural and architectural objects, engineers can more quickly detect coordination problems before sending drawings to the construction site.
Collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineers
Structural engineers working with mechanical, electrical, or plumbing engineers using AutoCAD? MEP software can improve design coordination. Autodesk Revit Structure users can export their structural model into AutoCAD MEP, where the MEP engineer can perform clash detection between pipes and structural elements. Autodesk Revit Structure can also import 3D duct and pipe objects from AutoCAD MEP into the structural model via ACIS? solids to help detect interferences visually. In addition, structural engineers who are working with MEP engineers using Autodesk? Revit? MEP software can take better advantage of building information modeling.
Parametric Components
Using Autodesk Revit Structure, engineers can create many types of structural components, such as joist systems, beams, open web joists, trusses, and intelligent wall families. No programming language is required to use parametric components, also known as families. The family editor contains all the data to graphically represent an element in 2D and 3D at various levels of detail.
Multiuser Collaboration
Autodesk Revit Structure enables multiple team members on the same network to work together on a model, while their work stays fully coordinated. A wide range of collaboration modes provides more flexibility to better meet the project team’s workflow—from on-the-fly, simultaneous access to the shared model to formal division of the project into discrete shared units or individually managed linked models.
Design Options
With Autodesk Revit Structure, engineers can stay focused on structural engineering. The software 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 for visualization and quantity takeoff to help team members and clients make more informed decisions.
Leading Analysis and Design Integration
Analytical models created with Autodesk Revit Structure contain information such as loads, load combinations, member sizes, and release conditions. The analytical model can be the entire building model, one wing of the building, or even a single structural frame. Engineers use selection filters with structural boundary conditions to send substructures (such as a frame, floor, or wing of the building) to their analysis software without the need to send the entire model.
Automatic Sections and Elevations
Creating sections and elevations in Autodesk Revit Structure is more simple compared to traditional methods. because views are just a different representation of the entire building model, users get cuts faster throughout a structure. Use them at any time to work in the most appropriate view. When the construction documents are ready to
print, section tags and elevation symbols of the views that are not placed onto any drawing sheet are automatically hidden.
Automatic Drawing Sheet References
This functionality helps safeguard that no section, elevation, or callout references the wrong drawing or sheet and that all data and graphics, details, schedules, drawings, and sheets in the drawing set are current and oordinated.
Details
Autodesk Revit Structure allows callouts for typical details and for specific ones. Entire sheets of typical details can be created from scratch in Autodesk Revit Structure using its traditional 2D drafting tools.
Schedules
Help save time by creating schedules on demand, and update the model and views automatically simply by making a change in a schedule. Schedule features include sorting, filtering, grouping, and counting as well as user-defined formulas.