Revit Structure software enhances the way structural drafters, engineers and building contractors execute construction project. It reduces repetitive design and drawing tasks along with the human errors due to manual coordination between architects, engineers and other stake-holders. It also reduces time spent in generating final shop and construction drawings and improves the accuracy of documentation, enhancing overall project delivery for clients.
Seamless Coordination:
Since Revit Structure uses building information modeling (BIM) technique, every view, drawing and schedule contains the same project database. As members of architectural, architectural and Mechanical work on the same project, making critical and necessary modifications in the building structure, parametric change technique in Revit Structure automatically coordinates changes across all other representations of the project-model views, drawing sheets, schedules, sections, plans, and details. In this way the design and documentation remain coordinated, comprehensive, uniform and complete.
Bidirectional Associativity:
3D building model and all of its renderings are part of the central information database. This means changes to any section of the structure need to be made only once, maintaining consistency across the construction documentation set. Just for an example, if the scale of the sheet is changed, the software automatically resizes graphics and drawings. If design of a structural member changes, all views are coordinated and updated automatically.
Collaboration with Architects:
Revit Structure comes with a workflow support where structural design commences with an architectural design done in AutoCAD Architecture. Contractors can use individual plan views from AutoCAD Architecture when they commence their structural layout work. For enhanced collaboration, structural engineers can also export 3D Revit Structure models to AutoCAD Architecture. Generation of the structural model is speedier with integrated Revit platform tools. This interference checking feature allows engineers to quickly detect coordination problems before sending drawings to the construction site.
Coordination with Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) divisions:
Engineers working with mechanical, electrical, or plumbing departments using AutoCAD MEP software can enhance design collaboration. Revit Structure users can export their structural model into AutoCAD MEP, where the MEP engineer can perform interference checking between pipes and structural members. Additionally, structural engineers who are working with MEP engineers using AutoCAD Revit MEP software can take full advantage of building information modeling techniques to improve overall project delivery.
