Autodesk Revit Structure 2012

Autodesk Revit Structure Building Information Modeling (BIM) software for structural engineering provides tools specifically built for structural design and analysis. With the advantage of BIM, Revit Structure helps to:

• Improve multi-discipline coordination of structural design documentation.
• Minimize errors.
• Enhance collaboration between structural engineers and extended project team members, such as architects, MEP engineers, and owners.

Features:

DWG Fidelity
Improvements to DWG™ export functionality allow you to map Revit® categories and subcategories to layers in DWG files, giving you more control over layer naming. In addition, you can also map Revit lines, patterns, and fonts to their DWG equivalents.

Family Enhancements
Enhancements to Revit® families enable you to export all of the families in a project in order to add content to your libraries. You can also import and export family types from the family editor to create family types more easily.

Visualization
Visualization enhancements provide you with more options for displaying your project. You now have the ability to display edges in realistic views and shadows in consistent colors mode. New semi-transparent views help provide clarity in viewing elements within projects.
  
Analytical Model Enhancements Enhancements have been made to help you create and manage the structural analytical model, including greater control over the analytical model and better consistency with the structural physical model. Specific areas of improvement are:

• Better control of visibility/graphics.
• The inclusion of analytical parameters in analytical model elements.
• The addition of a surface to floor, slab, and wall analytical models.
• The addition of the “enable analytical model” parameter to physical model elements.
• Easier identification of linear analytical model end segments.
• Improved full edit mode for analytical adjustments.
• New model adjustment features allowing for editing via nodes and direct manipulation widgets.
• The ability to adjust linear analytical models at each end with new projection and hosting behaviors.
• Enhanced auto-detection for the preservation of physical element joins and attachments.

Construction Modeling
New modeling tools help you derive better construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate objects, such as wall layers and concrete pours, to more accurately represent construction methods. Prepare shop drawings for fabrication with features that give you greater flexibility in documenting assemblies of model elements.
 
Model Linking Enhancements
Model linking enhancements provide more flexibility in working within large projects by allowing you to tag a variety of elements within linked files. New to this release is the ability to tag rooms, areas, keynotes, beams, and beam systems.

Point Clouds
Revit Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process, helping to accelerate renovation and retrofit projects. By visualizing point clouds directly within the Revit® software environment, it’s easier to author an as-built building information model with more confidence and accuracy.

Reinforcement Enhancements
Enhancements have been made to help you more easily define and visualize concrete reinforcement in Revit Structure. New methods for managing the definition of reinforcement as well as controlling its placement have been added, including:

• New multi-planer reinforcement support.
• Structural connection category improvements.
• Support for hosting reinforcement in generic model families.
• More accurate display of self-intersecting reinforcement bars.
• Support for attaching stirrups beyond cover references.
• Improvements to rebar bend dimension display.

Revit Server
Revit Server helps project teams in different locations collaborate more easily on shared Revit® models across a wide-area network (WAN). Better maintain an integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that can be accessed from local servers. Built-in redundancy helps provide protection in case of WAN connectivity loss.

Worksharing Enhancements
Worksharing enhancements help you better understand and collaborate on shared models across the project team. Gain more visibility into element ownership and status to better manage team workflows.

Improve Efficiency, Accuracy, and Coordination

Concurrent modeling for structural design, analysis, and coordinated documentation

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.

Enhance Structural Modeling and Analysis Capabilities

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

Whether engineers are designing steel, cast-inplace concrete, precast concrete, masonry, or wood structures, standard modeling objects in Autodesk Revit Structure software include walls, beam systems, columns, slabs, and foundations. Additional structural objects can be created as parametric components.

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. 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.

Autodesk Revit Structure can inspire structural engineers to greater engineering insight: userdefined 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, minimizing many redundant, repetitive tasks such as modeling frames and shells in a variety of different applications. Autodesk Revit Structure integrates with Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional software as well as other widely used analysis and design applications. To find out which software partners have linked their applications to Autodesk Revit Structure through the Autodesk® Revit® platform API (application programming interface), visit http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure.

Deliver Comprehensive Construction Documents

Use a comprehensive set of dedicated tools to deliver structural drawings and help reduce errors due to manual coordination of design changes.

Material-specific tools help construction documents conform to industry and office standards. For steel, features such as beam coping and automatic symbolic cutbacks as well as an extensive library of detail components, are available.

For concrete structures, display options provide control over the visibility of the concrete elements. Reinforcement bars are also available for concrete elements, including columns, beams, walls, and foundations.

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 coordinated.

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. Designers can also import DWG details from AutoCAD® software and link them into Autodesk 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, Autodesk Revit Structure offers 3D model-based details such as 3D representation of building expansion joints, steel connections, rebar in concrete elements, and more.

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. Engineers and project managers can use customized schedules to check the overall structural design. For example, they can schedule and review structural loads before integrating the model with analysis software. If the load value needs to be changed, it can be modified in the schedule and automatically coordinated throughout the model.

Building Information Modeling for Structural Engineering

Make better decisions, earlier in the design process by more accurately visualizing and analyzing structures, before they are built.

Building information modeling (BIM) is an integrated process built on coordinated, reliable information about a project from design through construction and into operations. By adopting BIM, architects, engineers, contractors, and owners can more easily create coordinated, digital design information and documentation; use that information to visualize, simulate, and analyze performance, appearance, and cost; and reliably deliver the project faster, more economically, and with reduced environmental impact. BIM for structural engineers follows this same methodology for the entire structural engineering process, focusing on a digital model that can be used for coordination with architects; mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers; and civil engineers that is integrated with analysis, design, and construction documentation, and extending that digital model from design through fabrication and construction.

Autodesk Revit Structure
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.

System Requirements:

For 32-Bit Autodesk Revit Structure 2012

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 32-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium; Microsoft® Windows Vista® 32-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium; or Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) Professional or Home
• For Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit or Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual core processor, 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
• For Microsoft Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
• 4 GB RAM
• 5 GB free disk space
• 1,280 x 1,024 monitor with true color
• Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics; 256 MB DirectX® 10-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics. Find out more about recommended graphics hardware.
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• Download or installation from DVD9

For 64-Bit Autodesk Revit Structure 2012

• Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition, Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 edition (SP2 or later)
• For Windows 7 64-bit or Windows Vista 64-bit: Intel® Core™ i5-2300 quad-core processor (2.8 GHz, 6 MB cache) or equivalent AMD® processor.
• For Windows XP Professional x64: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
• 8 GB RAM
• 5 GB free disk space
• 1,680 x 1,050 monitor with true color
• Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics; 256 MB DirectX 10-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics. Find out more about recommended graphics hardware.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• Download or installation from DVD9