Revit Structure 2008
 Revit
Structure software integrates a multimaterial physical model with an independently
editable analytical model for efficient, accurate, and flexible analysis,
design, and documentation. Create models from scratch or import architectural
files, whether industry-standard 2D format or from AutoCAD Architecture,
Revit Architecture, or IFC files. Bidirectional linking to popular structural
analysis software enables accurate model updates, while parametric change
management technology coordinates those updates throughout your design
documentation. Complete your construction documentation using specific
and typical details in Revit Structure. Export models in several widely
used formats, including DWG™, DXF™, DWF™, and IFC.
Revit Structure 2008 Overview Information:
 Revit
Structure 2008 Frequently Asked Questions
Revit
Structure 2008 Overview
Revit
Structure 2008 What's New
Revit
Structure 2008 System Requirements
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Structure 2008 Brochure [pdf - 1078 Kb]
Revit
Structure 2008 Overview Brochure [pdf - 1834 Kb]
Revit
Structure 2008 FAQ [pdf - 141 Kb]
Revit Structure Whitepapers
Effective
Collaboration using Revit Structure and AutoCAD MEP [pdf - 1091 Kb]
Learn how structural engineers using Revit Structure can work with MEP
systems engineers using AutoCAD MEP.
Revit
Structure Interoperability with AutoCAD [pdf - 1205 Kb]
Learn how Revit Structure and AutoCAD can be used together.
Multi-user
Collaboration with Revit Structure Worksharing [pdf - 214 Kb]
Capabilities of Revit worksets, and techniques for successful worksharing
on Revit Structure models.
Coordination
between Revit Structure and Revit Architecture [pdf - 623 Kb]
Learn how Revit Structure and Revit Architecture can improve coordination
between engineers and architects.
Interoperability
between Revit Structure and AutoCAD Architecture [pdf - 1341 Kb]
Learn how Revit Structure and AutoCAD Architecture can be used together.
Revit
Structure and BIM [pdf - 510 Kb]
Revit Structure extends building information modeling (BIM) into structural
design. This paper examines the value of structural engineering workflows
supported by building information modeling.
Maintaining
BIM Integrity in the Structural Engineering Office [pdf - 674 Kb]
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Revit Structure?
- What is AutoCAD Revit
Structure Suite?
- What
is building information modeling, and how does it apply to Revit Structure?
- Does Revit Structure
do steel detailing?
- Who
builds the model in Revit Structure, the engineers or drafters?
- How
does Revit Structure handle concurrent users on the same project?
- How
does Revit Structure support finite element analysis and building code
design?
- What
types of structural elements and materials are supported out of the
box?
- How
does Revit Structure work with AutoCAD or other 2D software?
- What
is parametric and how does the parametric change engine keep everything
updated when I make changes? Why is the concept important?
1. What is Revit Structure?
Revit Structure is a multi-material structural modeling and drafting software
system that offers concurrent physical and analytical modeling for design,
coordination, and documentation—and bidirectional linking to industry-leading
analysis applications.
Revit Structure software integrates a physical model—for layout,
coordination, and documentation—with an independently editable
analytical model for multiple analyses. You can model from scratch or
over 2D CAD files from the architect. Or, for even more powerful coordination,
you can link directly to intelligent 3D architectural models from AutoCAD®
Architecture or Revit® Architecture software products. Bidirectional
linking to industry-leading analysis software means analysis results update
your Revit Structure model accurately—while proven parametric change
management technology coordinates those updates everywhere in your
design and documentation. The bottom line: Integrated modeling increases
efficiency, improves accuracy, and streamlines coordination with your
design team.
2. What is AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite?
AutoCAD® Revit® Structure Suite (formerly known as AutoCAD®
Revit® Series—Structure) is a software bundle including Revit
Structure 2008 and AutoCAD® 2008 software applications shipped on
two separate DVDs, with a single serial number and a single activation
code permitting use of both products on a non-concurrent basis.
With AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite, users get the most powerful parametric
structural modeler with Revit Structure, plus the most widely used drafting
software in the industry with AutoCAD. This bundle enables users to adopt
building information modeling at their own pace, while leveraging their
investment in AutoCAD and migrating all their company standards and detail
libraries to Revit Structure.
3. What is building information modeling, and how does it apply
to Revit Structure?
Building information modeling is an innovative building design and documentation
methodology that relies on the creation and collection of interrelated
computable information about a building project so that reliable,
coordinated, and internally consistent digital representations of the
building are available for design decision making, production of high-quality
construction documents, construction planning, and predicting performance
in various ways.
The ability to keep this information up to date and accessible in an
integrated digital environment gives engineers, architects, builders,
and owners a clear overall vision of their projects and contributes to
the ability to make better decisions faster—helping raise the quality
and increase the profitability of projects.
Revit is Autodesk’s platform for building information modeling.
Applications such as Revit Structure (built on the Revit platform)are
complete, discipline-specific structural engineering, design and documentation
systems supporting all phases of structural modeling, analysis (with third-party
software), and construction documentation.
4. Does Revit Structure do steel detailing?
No, however Revit Structure can import and export CIS/2 files to be used
by steel detailing applications. Structural engineers and drafters can
create typical details in Revit Structure using detail components for
construction documents.
5. Who builds the model in Revit Structure, the engineers or drafters?
Revit Structure supports different ways of working. In one case, structural
designers and drafters can create the model and engineers can complete
the model with loads and load combinations, release conditions, and material
properties before performing analyses. In another case, structural engineers
can build the physical model themselves, then continue the analysis process
while the drafters complete the construction documents. Revit Structure
simplifies the creation of structural drawings by automatically generating
drawings and schedules directly from the physical model. This enables
the drafters to focus on detail views, annotations, and other details
required for construction.
6. How does Revit Structure handle concurrent users on the same
project?
Revit Worksharing distributes the power of the Revit parametric building
modeler across the structural engineering team. Worksharing provides a
complete range of collaboration modes: from on-the-fly simultaneous
access to the shared model, through the formal division of the project
into defined systems, to complete separation of discrete project
parts (such as wings or separate buildings) into individually managed
linked models. Worksharing enables structural team members to choose the
best way to collaborate and interact based on workflow and project requirements.
For example, after enabling worksharing on a structural model, while the
structural engineer is performing structural analysis and design in another
application, the structural drafter can simultaneously prepare all the
model views, drawings, details, and schedules for documentation. When
the drafter loads the latest file saved by the engineer, all design changes
made to the model by the engineer will automatically update the corresponding
information into the drafter’s work.
7. How does Revit Structure support finite element analysis and
building code design?
Revit Structure integrates with several popular third-party analysis applications
through the Revit Application Programming Interface (API).
8. What types of structural elements and materials are supported
out of the box?
Libraries of all standard walls, columns, foundations, beams, floor systems,
braces, trusses, and open web joists are provided. Special foundations,
precast concrete elements, and other useful structural libraries such
as castellated beams, steel connections, stiffeners, concrete rebars,
etc., are also supported. Structural boundary conditions, load cases and
load types are included and can be exported to analysis and design software
along with the other structural elements.
9. How does Revit Structure work with AutoCAD or other 2D software?
Revit Structure provides industry-leading DWG compatibility for data import
and export.
Revit Structure can produce DWG deliverables just as AutoCAD software
can. It supports the process most engineering firms use with their clients
by producing consistent and layered DWG files using user-defined layering
standards. With Revit Structure nothing in an exported DWG file ends up
on the wrong layer, easing client interactions and helping speed the design
and construction process.
Revit Structure allows imported or linked DWG files from your clients
or consultants to be used for coordination as reference geometry or as
the starting point for a new design. Any CAD system that supports the
DWG or DXF file format can work effectively with Revit Structure.
10. What is parametric and how does the parametric change engine
keep everything updated when I make changes? Why is the concept important?
The term “parametric” in this context refers to the relationships
among and between all elements of the model that enable the coordination
and change management that Revit Structure provides. These relationships
are created either automatically by the software or deliberately by the
user as the user works.
A fundamental characteristic of a building information modeling application
is the ability to coordinate changes and maintain consistency at all times.
The user does not have to intervene to update drawings or links.
At the heart of Revit Structure is technology that is new to structural
design, engineering, and documentation systems: a parametric change engine.
Revit Structure is built from the ground up using this technology. The
Revit parametric change engine uses the information captured as you work
to build a network of relationships between elements. When you change
something, Revit Structure immediately applies that change to any related
elements.
This concept is important because it is this capability that delivers
the fundamental coordination and productivity benefits of Revit Structure:
change anything at any time anywhere in the project and Revit Structure
coordinates that change through the entire project. This change management
is also one of the fundamental characteristics of a building information
modeling solution.
Revit Structure 2008 System Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4, 1.4 GHz, or equivalent AMD Athlon®
processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP SP1 or later (Professional, Home, Tablet
PC Edition) or Windows® 2000 SP4, Microsoft® Windows Vista™
(Enterprise, Business, Premium, Ultimate Edition)
- 1 GB RAM
- 3 GB free disk space
- 1280x1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 24-bit color
- Internet connection for license registration
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or later
- MS-Mouse compliant
System Recommendations
- Intel Core™ 2 Duo 2.40 GHz, or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
- Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
- 4 GB RAM
- 5 GB free disk space
- Dedicated video card with hardware support for OpenGL® spec 1.3
or later
- Two-button mouse with scroll wheel
Runs side by side with AutoCAD 2008 and all previous versions, Revit
Architecture 2008, Revit MEP 2008, AutoCAD Architecture 2008 and AutoCAD
MEP 2008 software products.
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