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.

Revit® Structure software offers concurrent modeling for structural design, analysis, and fully coordinated documentation.

Seamless Coordnation

Bidirectional Associativity

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

Using Revit Structure, engineers 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 element 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 and clients make informed decisions.

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 and automatically 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.

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.

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.

Coordinate Across the Disciplines

Workflow with Industry-Standard File Formats

The ability to import, export, and link to DWG, DXF,™ DGN, and IFC formats helps ensure fully compatible data exchange between engineering firms and their client architects. Revit Structure supports the traditional workflow in which structural modeling begins with 2D DWG files created by the architect using AutoCAD software. This workflow offers timesaving features such as the direct selection of DWG lines, with no need for tracing. Structural engineers can also import and export their models in CIS/2 format for coordination with steel detailers and fabricators.

Collaboration with Architects

Revit Structure also supports the workflow where structural modeling starts with an architectural design done in AutoCAD® Architecture software. Engineers can reference individual plan views from AutoCAD Architecture when they start their structural layout. For better coordination, structural engineers can export 3D Revit Structure models to AutoCAD Architecture. Architects using AutoCAD Architecture 2009 can review the exported structural elements as true AutoCAD Architecture objects. Engineers working with architects using 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 Revit platform tools. With interference checking between structural and architectural objects, engineers can quickly detect coordination problems before sending drawings to the construction site.

Collaboration with 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 engineer can perform clash detection between pipes and structural elements. Revit Structure users 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 mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers using Revit® MEP software can take full advantage of building information modeling.

Ready to Run

Autodesk Revit Structure 2009 runs on Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.

Reviewes by asti.com