Integration between Revit Structure and Autocad Structural Detailing for reinforcement drawings

I got a number of requests on how to use Autocad Structural Detailing (ASD) to produce reinforcement drawings from Revit Structure (RST)

Our vision is to have RST being BIM that contains the design information (in this case 3D reinforcement object) and have ASD to produce shop drawings based on local CAD standards

In this post I am going to explain the workflow between the 2 applications:

1. Select a RST object and start the equivalent Revit Extension (REX). In my case I am using a column

   

   

2. Define parameters manually or open an existing rebar cage template from the REX file menu

   Press OK and the reinforcement is generated

1. Select the Reinforcement Drawing REX from the icon or from the REX Browser list:

   

   This is going to trigger AutoCAD Structural Detailing. After ASD is ready, you will get the following dialog box in RST:

   

   You can use the default options or if you want to use regional options, please select New project:

   

   Press the preference button and select the options that you want to use:

   

2. Press OK to close the preference dialog box and OK to generate the shop drawings in ASD
3. After the progress bar disappears,
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   use ALT TAB to switch to ASD

       

5. ASD will ask you to position the drawings

   

   ET Voila!!!

   Nicolas

Comments

[Amin Ghali]

Dear Nicolas, I have tried it and it works great when generating reinforcement from the extension, but sometimes i edit the reinforcement in Revit after generating them, when i send to ASD, it doesn't send the modification. any help on that ? thanks

[Anthony]

This is brilliant,
Any plans to add New Zealand Codes to ASD?
I've managed to create a reinforcing bar database to NZS 3101:2006 (New Zealand Standard), however I haven’t worked out (yet) how to add the RC Design and Reinforcement (drawings) Codes. Any help on these would be greatly appreciated,

I can email you the NZS 3101 if you like.

Regards
Anthony

[Steve B]

Very interesting process option! Makes a lot of sense.

[Adam]

This workflow would produce a alot of different drawings in both Revit and AutoCAD Assuming the same process will be used for the steel connections. Is there any plans to integrate the drawings in some format so we can update off each other rather then having alot of AutoCAD files linked into our Revit models if we wish to document the details or keep them in Revit for printing purposes?? If each Beam is one CAD drawing we will end up with alot of CAD drawings? Same to be said for Steel Detailing.

[ibrahim]

thx for this efort to improve our work

[ibrahim]

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[abes]

IT'S VERY GOOD

[محمد]

شكر جزيلا

[Nuno Geirnhas]

hi, I am working with the ASD and Revit 2011 and I want to change the scale of the imported column, The scale are always 1:20, and when I imported de column, the rebar doesn't apears in ASD.
Thanks

[Melpert Dean]

How do you integrate between the two softwares if you don't have the revit extension?