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 | | AUTODESK LAUNCHES INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL MODELLING APPLICATION FOR ENGINEERING PRODUCTIVITY, DESIGN EFFICIENCY & CO-ORDINATION | | | Autodesk | | 05/10/2006 | | | AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure Seamlessly Co-ordinates Physical and Analytical Models to Speed Production of Construction Documents
10 May, 2006 -Autodesk has introduced Autodesk® AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure, a new structural engineering software solution, combining AutoCAD® 2007 and Autodesk® Revit® Structure.
By combining industry leading AutoCAD® 2007 software with state-of-the-art Revit Structure design software, AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure gives structural engineering firms the flexibility to move to Building Information Modelling (BIM) at their own pace.
AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure offers concurrent modelling for design, analysis, coordination and documentation.
AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure helps structural engineers improve accuracy of designs and documentation with bi-directional linking to industry-leading analysis software, collaborate better with direct links to architectural models and ensure design and documentation are always co-ordinated, consistent and complete with Revit parametric change management.
AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure allows structural engineers to more efficiently and flexibly create accurate construction documentation by integrating a physical model - for layout, coordination and documentation - with an independently editable analytical model for materials including steel, pre-cast concrete, cast-in-place concrete, and masonry. The software also helps structural engineers share building design information with the extended project team by directly linking to information from architectural and building services engineering models.
'Architects and engineers with every intention of working together efficiently still have to accommodate last minute design changes,' said Pete Baxter, sales director, Autodesk Building Solutions Division, Northern Europe. 'AutoCAD® Revit® Series-Structure is the latest in a family of products we've designed to bring the power of building information modelling to the entire project team.
'It creates a common model for engineering and documentation for an intuitive understanding of a building's complex structural behaviour - one that maintains the accuracy of data wherever it's used, and advances design quality and team responsiveness, flexibility and productivity.'
Building Information Modelling for Structural Engineers
Using Autodesk Revit Structure, structural engineers can build structural models from scratch or create designs over existing 2D CAD files. The software also enables users to link directly to intelligent 3D architectural and building engineering models. Structural engineers gain a powerful tool for BIM, a design approach that uses co-ordinated, internally consistent computable information about a building project in design and construction. As a result, users can easily co-ordinate interferences between architectural, MEP engineering and structural engineering systems and correct errors before they require costly redesign. Autodesk Revit Structure capabilities include:
Greater efficiency through concurrent modelling for analysis and documentation: Information is entered only once, and can be used for engineering, analysis, design, documentation and co-ordination with the rest of the design team. Simultaneously create a physical model for coordination and documentation, as well as a fully associated analytical model for multiple types of analysis.
Higher quality, more accurate and co-ordinated documentation: State-of-the-art parametric change management co-ordinates analysis results updates throughout design and documentation files. Any changes made in one view are dynamically updated in every related view, including drawings and schedules on sheets ready to plot.
Flexibility to explore design alternatives and changes: Engineers can explore alternate structural designs using combinations of multiple materials steel, concrete and masonry--- and edit the analytical model to reflect engineering judgment for gravity, lateral, seismic and other analyses. Autodesk Revit Structure keeps all analyses associated with the physical model, minimising co-ordination headaches.
More effective collaboration and support for multiple design sources: Engineers can create their own structural models from scratch or work on top of 2D CAD files from the architect. They can also accelerate their work and automate co-ordination by linking bi-directionally to any available 3D architectural or building services engineering models from Autodesk® Architectural Desktop, Autodesk® Revit® Building or Autodesk® Building Systems.
Integration with leading analysis applications: Bi-directional exchange of information with industry-leading analysis applications helps ensure that models reflect accurate structural data. Analysis software links include, for example, ROBOT Millennium from Robobat, ETABS from Computers and Structures Inc. (CSI) and RISA 3D and RISAFloor from RISA Technologies.
Contact your local Autodesk office to get more information about further local Revit Structure analysis partners. | |
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