BIM & BEAM

Stairs and Railings with Autodesk Advance Steel

Autodesk Advance Steel has powerful tools for miscellaneous steel such as stairs and railings. In this video, you’ll see how easy the tools are to use to create simple or complex designs.

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Engineering Firms Connect BIM-Based Design and Construction Through Fabrication

Use of Building Information Modeling is accelerating dramatically, driven by major private and government owners who want to institutionalize its benefits of faster, more certain project delivery, and more reliable quality and cost. According to the 2013 McGraw Hill Construction SmartMarket report, “The Business Value of BIM for Construction in Major Global Markets,” adoption of BIM has reached more than 70 percent among firms in North America. Leading engineering firms are finding that BIM provides opportunities for companies to reshape projects at an ecosystem level, changing workflows in ways that deliver important results.

Figure 1: BIM-driven workflows can include structural detailing to better optimize the structural design to detailing process together.

A major driver of this evolution is that engineering firms are looking for better return on investment from BIM (see Figure 1). Even with a high adoption rate of BIM and owners seeing better coordinated designs with fewer requests for information, engineers are not being fully recognized financially. Other external factors at play include fewer construction projects, tighter project schedules, and lower design fees. Some firms have tried to reduce costs through mergers and acquisitions or offshoring of certain services. Others are exploring technologies such as mobile and cloud that better streamline processes such as multidiscipline collaboration and structural analysis and design.

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Customer Success Video: Steelway Building Systems

This video focuses on telling the story of Steelway Building Systems. Steelway is a structural building systems detailer and fabricator based in Canada, who use Advance Steel to accurate model and drive fabrication of steel components.

Wind Load Simulation in Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional Whitepaper

I am happy to share with you another whitepaper. This time it is a document on Wind Load Simulation in Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis 

This whitepape is also available on the iBooks Store. This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac  or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer.

 

Step by Step Video Tutorial How to Create Shop Drawings and Rebar Schedules in Autodesk Revit 2015.

This video provides insight into how to use the Revit tools in the best way for creating complete shop drawings and final rebar schedules. Take a look at the partitioning, the numbering, the bar presentation, the multi-rebar annotation tools and more in action.