BIM & BEAM

We are looking for structural engineering classes for Autodesk University 2012

The Call for Proposals site for AU 2012 is currently opened and accepting class proposals.  If you would like to teach a class now is the time to submit your proposal. 

The Structural Engineering Design track focuses on topics that are important to structural engineers and designers as well as BIM and CAD managers who want to learn more about Autodesk software for Building Information Modeling (BIM). We welcome proposals that focus on:

• How to solve structural workflows  using Autodesk products as well as complementing third-party software solutions
• Best practices for coordination with BIM between architectural firms, structural engineering firms, MEP engineering firms, and contractors.
• Analysis and simulation
• Design to construction workflows, detailing and fabrication

Please send in your submissions as soon as possible! The deadline for submissions is MAY 22, 2012.

 

The link between Revit Structure and Staad has been updated

With SI Xchange™ for Revit® Structure, buildings modeled in Revit Structure can easily be exported to STAAD.Pro® for analysis and design. Changes in STAAD.Pro can then be sent back to Revit Structure. Alternatively, buildings modeling in STAAD.Pro can be imported to Revit Structure.

Read more: structuralintegrators.com

Autodesk Revit Model Review 2013

If you subscribe to the Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013 Premium edition or Ultimate edition, or AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite, you can download Autodesk Revit Model Review 2013 from the Subscription Center.
Automate the process of reviewing and auditing building information modeling (BIM) projects in Autodesk^® Revit^® 2013, Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2013, Autodesk^® Revit^® MEP 2013, or Autodesk^® Revit^® Structure 2013 software with the Autodesk^® Revit^® Model Review plug-in:

• Check the accuracy and consistency of a Project or Family against standards set by your firm, your clients, or industry best practices
• Correct inconsistencies with a single click or with instructions provided when manual fixes are required.

Simplified seismic analysis in Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2013

The Equivalent Lateral Force method is an alternative (simplified) approach for determining distribution of seismic base shear force on the height of regular, multistory building. This method is the most commonly used design procedure allowing determination of design seismic forces by a linear elastic static analysis of the structure.
The Equivalent Lateral Force method allows seismic analysis according the following national codes:

• Australia AS 1170.4 - 2007 Earthquake actions in Australia.
• Europe EC8 1998-1:2005 Eurocode 8. Design of structures for earthquake resistance
• United States ASCE 7-10 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings (recalled in the IBC 2009 requirements)

Join us at Camp this Summer!

Announcing Autodesk AEC DevCamp (June 6-7) and Manufacturing DevCamp (June 13-14)!
Register by April 30th to get the $100 early bird discount!

AEC DevCamp, June 6-7 (outside of Boston)
You can attend beginner and expert classes on developing solutions with Autodesk^® Revit^® (all flavors including Server), AutoCAD^® Civil 3D^®, Autodesk® Infrastructure Map Server, Autodesk^® Vault, Autodesk BIM 360, Autodesk Project Vasari, Autodesk^® Green Building Studio^®, Autodesk^® Navisworks^®, and several more Autodesk AEC technologies.  Hear from Autodesk’s AEC Leadership including Vice President Jim Lynch.  Learn firsthand about developing a new Cloud based business leveraging Autodesk technologies from the Co-Founder of Horizontal Systems (recently acquired by Autodesk) Jordan Brandt.

Complete list of classes being offered at AEC DevCamp found here.
Register to attend the AEC DevCamp here.

Manufacturing DevCamp, June 13-14 (in Portland)
You can attend beginner and expert classes on developing solutions with Autodesk^® Inventor^® (including Inventor ETO), Autodesk^® Vault, Autodesk^® Navisworks, Autodesk PLM 360, and several more Autodesk manufacturing technologies.  Hear from Autodesk’s Manufacturing Leadership including Executive Vice President Robert “Buzz” Kross.  Learn about new technologies Autodesk is working on from the head of our “Fusion” Product Management Team Kevin Schneider.

Complete list of classes being offered at MFG DevCamp found here.
Register to attend Manufacturing DevCamp here. 

 

AutoCAD WS In the Next Dimension!

Now you can view and share your drawings in 3D with AutoCAD WS.
Make the most of your smartphone or tablet's touch screen as you move and rotate your designs in three dimensions wherever you are. You can also plot 3D views of your model and email them out to colleagues and clients.

Download AutoCAD WS for your mobile

 

Enhanced Parts in Autodesk Revit 2013

Part elements in Revit support the construction modeling process by letting you divide certain elements from the design intent model into discrete parts. These parts, and any smaller parts derived from them, can be independently scheduled, tagged, filtered, and exported. Parts can be used by construction modelers to plan delivery and installation of pieces of more complex Revit elements.

Autodesk Revit 2013 extends the capabilities to support construction modeling by allowing further customization in parts.  Parts can now be merged, exclude, and restore.  Two or more parts can be merged into a single part, excludes will removes parts from the project, and lastly, you can restore parts that was previously excluded at any time.
You can divide parts with parametric gap offset, as well as a new type of profile family that allows you to create your own custom division profiles to illustrate more accurately how the building is constructed.


Parts enable more flexibility by supporting linked model with capability of object splitting and manipulation.  Additional elements such as structural beams and columns can now create parts as well.

Enhancements to parts enable more accurate insight on how the building may be constructed by working with multi-disciplinary design models.

Autodesk Revit 2013

Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013 Premium and Ultimate Editions now include a new version of Autodesk Revit software products that combines tools for architectural design, MEP engineering, and structural engineering in a single, comprehensive application.  Gain access to a broader set of tools to help streamline your workflows and collaborate more effectively with other building design disciplines on the Revit platform.


Autodesk Revit allows you to customize discipline functionalities based on your needs, another benefit is instead of having different content library for each Revit verticals, there will be one single content library to help organize your company library.  With all the tools accessible within a single application, it improves the multi-discipline workflow for the industry. 

Greater control over the analytical model in Autodesk Revit 2013

Analytical floors, analytical foundation slabs, and analytical walls now have corner analytical nodes in Analytical Edit mode. If you select the analytical model of floors or foundation slabs, you will see controls posted at all corners and edges which allow direct manipulation of the analytical model. You may select individual edges by using the Tab key while hovering over an edge. Pressing the spacebar will cycle through edge local and global drag widget arrow orientations.

Identification of beginnings and ends of the analytical elements in Revit

In Revit Structure users can identify ends (beginning, end) of linear elements to more easily define boundary conditions for these elements. It is possible to turn on color coding of analytical model end segments to help identify those ends.
In the Object Styles dialog you can specify different colors, line weights, or patterns for the beginning and end analytical model segments of columns, beams, or braces.

• Open the Structural Settings dialog box on the Analytical Model Settings.

• Check the Differentiate ends of linear analytical elements option.