The first is the amount of data that is sent from one product to the other. According to Gary Wyatt, Autodesk’s senior industry manager, structural engineering, this can manifest itself in a couple of ways. While all analysis applications handle things pretty well from a geometrical perspective, there can be quite a lot of variation when it comes to engineering data.

Think of it more as a conceptual design-based solution to help give engineers early feedback. However, new tools in Revit Structure give users more control over its creation and manipulation.Īutodesk does not expect people to do a final design with this tool, so links with third party products are still very important, but it does give the engineer the ability to make rational decisions based on analysis, without leaving the Revit model. It is common for structural engineers to tweak Revit’s analytical model once inside their preferred analysis application. This paper examines the role of the structural engineer in the BIM process and explains how the integrity of the building model is maintained during the structural engineering process.As Autodesk 360 Structural analysis is essentially a solver, the workflow relies on the analytical model produced in Revit being 100% correct. Maintaining BIM Integrity in the Structural Engineering OfficeA key benefit of building information modeling (BIM) is the ability to share digital model data among members of the design team. This paper examines how building information is shared between Revit Structure and Revit Architecture users.Ĭoordination between Revit Structure and Revit Architecture (pdf – 623Kb) Structural engineers who use Revit Structure software can coordinate their work with architects using Revit Architecture software. A few particular items of interest are shown below:Ĭoordination between Revit Structure and Revit Architecture There is a extensive list of whitepapers for Revit Structure over at this link.

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