Hello and Welcome

Hello! Welcome to the inaugural posting of the Revit Structure Blog. “BIM & Beam” is the official blog of the Revit Structure Product Team.

Today is the official release date for Revit Structure 2008 and we are very excited about this amazing release. In the next days we will share with some of the new great new functionalities of Revit Structure 2008.

First some history: we launched Revit Structure (RST) on June 7^th 2005 and since then (22 months) we had 5 releases. I know it sounds crazy but it says a lot about our motivation to build a product for the structural industry.

So it seems like the right time to also launch a blog to give you insight about our thinking and product philosophy, to provide you with in-depth technical content, to give you access to a forum to provide feedback, and finally to connect with the Autodesk Structural Team.

Wai Chu (Revit Structure Product Manager) and I (Structural Product Line Manager) will be posting as we come across items we think you might find interesting. If you have a topic you would like us to discuss, an interesting link you think we should promote or any feedback on this blog please feel free email us here. If you have a tip, trick, tutorial or other ideas you would like to see posted to the blog please send it to us here.

To conclude this first posting I am going to unveil the Revit Structure beta code names and the logic behind them!

Enjoy and come back soon to read new technical posts about Revit Structure.

Revit Structure 1 and 2 code name was Dijon

Revit Structure 3 code name was Pittsburgh

Revit Structure 4 code name was Utougi

Revit Structure 2008 code name was Krakow

I know, it seems pretty tricky… So first things first: our main constraint (not a parametric constraint) was to use only city names.

When we started to design RST1, we were a very small team that was put together and Marc Schindewolf was the lead developer. He suggested that we use something related to the Eiffel Tower. As a French person I could not agree more, but Paris was too obvious so we decided to pick the birth city of Gustave Eiffel and it was Dijon. Easy isn’t it?

RST2 was released shortly after RST1mainly to be compatible with Revit Building 8.1, so we just kept the same code name, Dijon.

For RST3 we wanted some sort of continuity with Dijon. Apart from Gustave Eiffel, the other noteworthy thing about Dijon is, of course, the mustard. RST3 really focused on the US market, so we decided to find the equivalent of mustard for the US, and of course, the answer is obvious: ketchup and the most famous one is Heinz and Heinz is from… Pittsburgh!

Now you are starting to get it…

RST4 launched in Japan for the first time and the Japanese version of mustard is… wasabi… and wasabi was discovered in… Utougi

Finally for RST 2008, we worked on a new concept with our partner Robobat: the Extensions For Revit (you will hear a lot about it in this blog) and their development team is based in Krakow.  And to be consistent with the other product names, horseradish is very popular in Polish cuisine

Nicolas

Comments

[David Harrington]

Totally awesome dudes! Glad to see you do this. Welcome!

[Amin]

Great to find you guys starting this blog, cause I've been using Revit structure for a couple of years now and i have so many questions for you. Welcome.

[Mike Thompson]

Hi Guys,

I've been watching the development of autodesk's BIM software for a few years now and the burning question for me is, when will they take on steel detailing?! Autodesk are now starting to penetrate all sectors of construction and manufacturing but have so far avoided steel detailing! I realise that there are several products on the market already but none of them come close to the power of inventor and I can only look forward to the day when they do something similar for structural steel.

[Danny Polkinhorn]

Nicolas,

Glad to see some Revit blogs finally!

By the way, you totally missed on the mustard. You should have considered "French's Mustard", much more appropriate for you!.

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