 Revit Structure 2009
More gain. Less pain.
Revit® Structure software works the way structural engineering firms work. A multimaterial physical model integrated with an independently editable analytical model delivers more efficient, accurate, and flexible analysis, design, and documentation. Improve coordination by leveraging crucial information from architectural files, whether 2D format or from AutoCAD® Architecture or Revit® Architecture files. Manage changes through bidirectional linking to popular structural analysis software, while parametric change management technology coordinates updates across the model and documentation. Utilize a complete set of drafting tools to complete your documentation in Revit Structure. And import and export design data through widely used industry formats for efficient collaboration.
Improve Efficiency and Accuracy
Revit® Structure software offers concurrent modeling for structural design, analysis, and fully coordinated documentation.
Revit Structure software improves the way structural engineers and drafters work. It minimizes repetitive modeling and drawing tasks, as well as errors
due to manual coordination between structural engineers, architects, and drafters. It helps reduce time spent producing final construction drawings and increases the accuracy of documentation, improving
overall project deliverables for clients.
Seamless Coordination
Because Revit Structure uses building information
modeling (BIM), every view, drawing sheet, and
schedule is a direct representation of 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 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 sets. For example, if sheet scales
change, annotations and graphics are properly
resized. If a structural member changes, the views
where this element is displayed are coordinated and
updated automatically, including name tags and
other labels referring to the element properties.
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Building Information Modeling
The creation and use of coordinated, internally consistent, computable information about a
building project in design and construction.
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Enhance Structural Modeling Capabilities
Revit Structure focuses on the modeling of multimaterial
building structures, from regular to complex shapes, such
as curved and sloped roofs and floors.
Whether engineers are designing steel, cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, masonry, or wood structures,
standard modeling objects in Revit Structure software include walls, beam systems, columns, slabs, and foundations. Additional structural
objects can be created as parametric components.
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Project Organization
Because all information is conveniently stored in one file, design teams spend less time managing project content. The project browser helps users navigate through the various views, sections, elevations, details, schedules, and drawing sheets of a structural project, enabling them to customize project content organization as needed.
Parametric Components
Revit Structure can create all 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
lement in 2D and 3D at various levels of detail.
The term family refers to an element’s ability to
have multiple types defined within it, each of a
different size and shape. Changes to a family or
type definition ripple through the project and are
automatically reflected in every instance of that
family or type in the project. This capability keeps
everything coordinated and saves the time and
effort of manually tracking down components to
update. Families are saved in a master database and
can be conveniently loaded into new projects.
Design Options
With Revit Structure, engineers stay focused on structural engineering. Explore design changes. Develop and study several design alternatives to make key design decisions. Easily present multiple schematic designs to clients. Each option can be substituted into the model for visualization and quantity takeoff to help team members make informed decisions. |
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Multiuser Collaboration
Revit Structure enables multiple team members on the same network to work together on a model, while their work stays fully coordinated. A complete range of collaboration modes provides flexibility to 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.
Digital Review and Markups
Accelerate reviews with the free* Autodesk®
Design Review software, the all-digital way to
review, measure, mark up, and track changes to
2D and 3D designs without the original design
creation software. Because the Design Review markup capabilities combine with Revit Structure navigation and revision management capabilities, tracking changes is easy.
Project File Sharing
The Publish to Autodesk® Buzzsaw® functionality enables design teams to easily upload files from Revit Structure to a Buzzsaw project site andutomatically
convert Revit Structure files to either the DWG™ or DWF™ file specification.
Project Management and Review
NavisWorks tools help project teams collaborate, coordinate, and review project information crucial to the design and construction of a project. Autodesk® NavisWorks® Manage helps streamline and centralize workflow processes across the organization to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and all but eliminate change orders, while Autodesk® NavisWorks® Review helps design and construct/build teams streamline efficiency and optimize quality by accurately visualizing all types of models, regardless of file format or size. |
Deliver Comprehensive Construction Documents
Revit Structure has a full set of dedicated tools to deliver accurate structural drawings and reduce errors due
to manual coordination of design changes.
Automatic Sections and Elevations
Creating sections and elevations in Revit Structure is simple compared to traditional methods. Because views are just a different representation of the entire building model, users get instant cuts 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 ensure 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 coordinated.
Details
Revit Structure allows callouts for typical details and for specific ones. Entire sheets of typical details can be created from scratch in Revit Structure using its traditional 2D drafting tools.
Designers can also import DWG details from AutoCAD® software and link them into Revit Structure, using the project browser to manage them.
Specific details come directly from the views of the model. These model-based details are completed with 2D parametric components (metal deck, concrete masonry
unit, anchor bolts in footings, fasteners, welded symbols, steel connection plates, concrete rebar, and more) and annotations such as text and dimensions.
When the geometry gets complicated, Revit Structure offers 3D model-based details such as 3D representation
of building expansion joints, steel connections, rebar in concrete elements, and more.
Symbols
The library of structural symbols includes moment frame connections for beams, plate and splices for columns, brace representation in plan view, welded symbols, and more.
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Legends
Create symbol and annotation legends for a project. Or use a legend view to place the same view on many sheets.
Revision Tools
Revit Structure includes a comprehensive revision mechanism. Revision clouds provide a way
to insert bubble changes on construction documents
and are associated with a revision number, for increased efficiency when tagging. Revision
numbering can be either projectwide or sheet-
specific. Revisions used on a sheet are displayed
in a revision schedule on the title block. A comprehensive
revision table lists all the changes made,
by team member and date, so users can better
manage changes and track documents.
Filters
The filter management tool enables users to
highlight specific objects for improved visibility within the structural model. User-defined selection filters provide a visual method to call out objects that share common properties. Filters are also used to create selection sets of structural elements to
send specific portions of the model for analysis
and design.
Schedules
Save time by creating schedules on demand. Schedules are just another representation of the same building model. Change a schedule, and all other views of the model coordinate and update automatically. Schedule features include sorting, filtering, grouping, and counting, as well as user- defined formulas. |
Integrate with Leading Analysis Software
Revit Structure concurrently delivers a physical model as
well as a fully associated analytical model of the building.
Physical models drive construction documentation.
Drafters use physical models to produce
the drawing and detail sheets. Engineers and
architects use it for coordination purposes,
such as interference checking.
The analytical model contains information such as loads, load combinations, member sizes, and release conditions for use in leading third-party analysis applications. The analytical model could 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 sending the entire model.
The creation of the analytical model uses engineering rules to produce a consistent analytical representation of the physical structure. Engineers can override initial analytical settings and edit
the analytical model before linking to structural analysis packages. |
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Revit Structure inspires structural engineers to greater engineering insight: user-defined rules help the analytical models adjust their location to the analytical projection planes of attached or adjacent structural elements. Engineers can automatically check analytical inconsistencies such as missing supports, global instabilities, or framing anomalies before sending the model to structural analysis.
The analysis programs then return the design information
and dynamically update the physical model and documentation, eliminating many redundant, repetitive tasks such as modeling frames and shells in a variety of different applications. |
Coordinate Across the Disciplines
Revit Structure supports popular industry workflows with architects, MEP engineers,
and contractors.
Link with Revit Architecture
Engineers working with architects using Revit®
Architecture software can take full advantage of
building information modeling and share the same underlying
building database. Creation of the structural
model is much faster with integrated Revit platform
tools. For example, engineers can create structural
columns from the existing architectural columns.
With interference checking between structural and
architectural objects, coordination problems can be
instantly detected before the drawings are sent to
the construction site.
Using the coordination monitor feature, engineers
and architects get electronic notification of any
changes made during the design process by either
discipline on levels, grids, columns, walls, slabs,
and openings. The result is synchronized workflow
and better-coordinated construction documents.
If engineers work with in-house architects using
Revit Architecture, they can navigate through the
multidiscipline design using the Worksharing tool. Finally, all structural drawings, details, and schedules are directly available on the Revit® platform for architectural review in Revit Architecture.
Collaboration with MEP Engineers and Designers
Structural engineers working with mechanical,
electrical, or plumbing engineers using AutoCAD®
MEP software can improve design coordination.
Revit Structure users can export their structural
model into AutoCAD MEP, where the MEP engineer
can perform clash detection between pipes and
structural elements. Revit Structure can also import
3D duct and pipe objects from AutoCAD MEP into
the structural model via ACIS® solids to detect
interferences visually.
In addition, structural engineers who are working
with MEP engineers using Revit® MEP software can take full advantage of building information modeling.
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Workflow with DWG/DXF/DGN/IFC Formats
Import, export, and link to DWG, DXF™, DGN, and
IFC formats help to assure fully compatible data
exchange between engineering firms and their client architects. Revit Structure supports the traditional workflow where structural modeling starts with 2D DWG files provided and created by the architect in AutoCAD software. This workflow includes timesaving features such as creation of structural walls and
grids by directly selecting DWG lines instead of
tracing over them. For example, once the construction documents are finalized in Revit Structure, the structural drawings can be sent to the architect for review as DWG files. Structural engineers can also import and export their models in CIS/2 format for coordination with steel detailers and fabricators.
Link with AutoCAD Architecture
Revit Structure also supports the workflow in which structural modeling starts with an architectural design done in AutoCAD® Architecture software. Engineers can also use individual plan views from AutoCAD Architecture as reference when they start their structural layout. For better coordination, structural engineers can export their 3D Revit Structure model to AutoCAD Architecture. Architects using AutoCAD Architecture, the latest release, can review the exported structural elements as true AutoCAD Architecture objects.
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