BIM & BEAM

New Autodesk Structures Blog for France!

The Autodesk Structural team in France has announced the availability of a new Blog focussed on Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Structural Engineering.  This site will provide our French speaking customers an area to read more about the power of Autodesk Revit Structure, Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis and AutoCAD Structural Detailling.

The authors for this blog are are Alexandre Mihalache, Olivier Bayle, Stéphane Balmain and Emmanuel Lagardette

You can check out the new blogsite by clicking here! Structure BIM

 Here is a screenshot of the blog which is a great addition to our Autodesk Structural BIM Community. 

 
 

Where is AutoCAD 2011 in the AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2011 bundle?

After the first week of the offical launch of our new 2011 release products, our product team got several emails and discussion forum comments from some customers asking where is the AutoCAD 2011 for AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2011 bundle as they couldn't find the regular vanilla AutoCAD 2011 download in the Subscription Center and it isn't included in the shipping package.

For this new 2011 release, our product team has decided not to include the regular vanilla AutoCAD 2011 media in the new AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2011 bundle, because after the installation of AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2011 software, it will automatically generate 2 icons/shortcuts/profiles on your desktop:

- One icon/shortcut/profile will be for the regular vanilla AutoCAD 2011 (32-bits or 64-bits depending on your O/S of your computer)
- One icon/shortcut/profile will be for the AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2011 (32-bits or 64-bits depending on your O/S of your computer)

 

P.S. The icon of AutoCAD Structural Detailing contains 2 small letters "SD"

 
 
 
This is the main reason why our product team feels that it is not really necessary (or even redundant) to include the regular vanilla AutoCAD 2011 media into our AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2011 bundle for this year as users will have ACAD automatically anyway.

If you have any comment or concern about it, please feel free to contact directly Wai or Dariusz.

Best Regards,

Wai Chu
Revit Structure Product Manager

Dariusz Kwolek
AutoCAD Structural Detailing Product Manager

What's new in Autodesk Structural Engineering Products

The Autodesk Structural Engineering product teams are pleased to announce that individual feature videos are now available that provide an overview of "What's New" in the 2011 releases of Autodesk Revit Structure, Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional and AutoCAD Structural Detailing. These videos are available on the Autodesk Building YouTube Channel which you can access at:

http://www.youtube.com/autodeskbuilding

To make it easy to find a list of "what's new" videos for the products you are most interested in we have created playlists for each of the individual products.

New AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2009 Documentation and Content Downloads in Subscription Center

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Hi All,

I would like to let you know that in the last several days, we released several new downloads in the Subscription Center http://www.autodesk.com/subscription :

1) The Italian Documentation for AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2009.
The Italian Documentation for AutoCAD® Structural Detailing 2009 provides existing user manual and tutorials translated into Italian. Two ASD modules are covered:
• Steel - tutorial
• Reinforcement – tutorial + manual


2) The CIS Documentation for AutoCAD® Structural Detailing 2009
CIS Documentation for AutoCAD® Structural Detailing 2009 software provides existing user manuals translated into Russian
This covers all three AutoCAD Structural Detailing modules which are:
• Reinforcement
• Steel
• Formwork Drawings.


3) Reinforcement Content for AutoCAD® Structural Detailing 2009 constitutes the supplement of the databases existing in the program in the form of bars and wire fabrics (.mdb). The current version of Reinforcement Content_Q3 is dedicated for Denmark, Sweden, Italy, India and Portugal.


Enjoy,

AutoCAD Structural Detailing Product Team

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

AutoCAD Structural Detailing

We want to reach out to you as we've heard a lot of great feedback from customers on AutoCAD Structural Detailing and wanted to expand more on the topic of this product.

Let me start out by telling you what it is.

AutoCAD® Structural Detailing software is a powerful solution for detailing and creation of fabrication shop drawings for steel and reinforced concrete structures. Use specific modules for fast and efficient generation of steel connections and shop drawings, dynamic concrete models and concrete drawings, and automatic concrete reinforcement definition and concrete shop drawing generation.

The key thing to note is that it is in metric today. I know that it is a problem for you in the US. The reason why we decided to include it in the box for the US market is that customers told us that they wanted to explore the technologies, the workflows and the integration between Revit Structure and AutoCAD Structural Detailing. Customers saw this as a way to explore additional services as their companies and the industries evolve.

We also wanted to let our customers understand how serious we are about the structural business and the type of investments that we are making. I hope that you better understand where we are taking our product portfolio

A few other things to note: AutoCAD Structural Detailing is Integrated with Revit Structure through the extensions and can also be used a standalone product.

We will also be creating an AUGI forum for this product. We will let you know when it is up and running.

Keep checking our blog for more information on AutoCAD Structural Detailing over the next few weeks as well will provide more detailed usage examples of the product .

Send us your feedback….

Nicolas