During the project process from design to detailing, there are many discussions between engineer, detailer, and fabricator about how to connect the multi-material framing elements like beams, columns, and bracings.
For cases like that, you can place a structural connection to supply information about the desired connection and define the relations between the elements. Beneath several parameters for schedules and tags, it also enables you to store pictures and link to further documentation about the connection, like: connection requirements or design report.
The symbolic connectors can be shown in drawings and use colors based on approval and/or code checking status parameter for an easier review and/or approval workflow. If required, the connection between framing steel elements can be extended with detailed steel connections.
This feature improves workflow between design and detailing within the BIM environment.
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Tomasz
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Hello Tomasz,
RFEM and RSTAB by Dlubal Software are able to send analysis results, eg. internal forces through the it´s included Revit link as a Revit Result Package to the Revit project. Is there a way that the new connection tools in Revit can automatically read the forces from RFEM or RSTAB? I looked at the video and you entered a shear force for the connection. This force is coming from the structural design in RFEM/RSTAB and it would be great if in Revit one could access these forces rather then to manually enter them.
Posted by: Walter Rustler | May 25, 2016 at 03:24 AM
You can leverage results of the structural analysis stored as a Revit Result Package.
Internal forces can be imported automatically when you perform code-checking of steel connections.
When you click the Forces button you can find a list of all load combinations and related internal forces which will be used during the code-checking verification.
Posted by: Tomasz | May 31, 2016 at 11:33 AM