BIM & BEAM

Improved snapping to fillets and hooks in Revit

There was a need to have additional references and characteristic points when modeling reinforcements in order to accurately define them in concrete elements.

Fillet and Hook references let you define a rebar or rebar set in the appropriate position within a fillet or hook. By snapping to these references you can avoid interferences and collisions with other rebar.
For fillets the references are placed at points of tangency and at the mid-point of the fillet arc.
For hooks the references are placed at the point of tangency with the rebar segment, at the point of tangency with the hook extension and at cardinal points between them.

After modifying properties of rebars or reinforced elements snapping to the references is preserved and adjusted to modified settings.

It helps you define concrete reinforcement more accurately.

Revit Structure online survey on join and cut concrete elements

Autodesk is conducting some user research to improve Autodesk Revit Structure.  The goal is to understand your needs and your workflow better.  Specifically, we are focusing on building elements that you might represent in concrete formwork drawings for cast-in-place monolithic construction.  These elements may need to be joined.

 
This survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. The link to the online survey is:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RevitStructureJoinGeometry

The information from this survey will be used only by the Revit product team. Your involvement helps make our products better fit your needs.  Please complete the survey by the end of Monday, October 3rd, 2011.

Thank you,

David Aurelio

[email protected]

Autodesk User Researcher

Create and Use Windows® Fonts for Local Reinforcement Symbols

Some symbols are not supported by the existing Windows® fonts; hence they could not be shown up correctly in Revit, e.g., some Chinese reinforcement symbols. To fix the issue, a Windows® font should be created specifies to the symbols, here are the steps:

1. Create Windows^® fonts.

   Sketch the corresponding symbols in a fonts creator and assign each symbol with a Unicode number, when all the symbols are created, save the font file to the Windows fonts folder. Here are some Chinese reinforcement symbols, the font file was saved as Revit.ttf and the font name was also set as Revit.

   

   

   
   
2. Use the font in Revit
   1. Input text in Revit or customize the tag fonts, click Element Properties button, and choose Revit font in the Text Font list.

   

   1. Input reinforcement symbols

      $ represents $,

      % represents,

      & represents,

      # represents.

      
      

      

      
      
      
      
      

       

   For example, if '$10@100 (2)' is input with Revit font set, it will show as' 10@100 (2).'
   
   2. Customize structural rebar bar types

      The following shows how to customize rebar symbols.

      In the project browser, rename the rebar type name with $%&# etc., when tag the rebar with rebar tags, it will show the right symbols.

Revise the rebar names in accordance with the font

Tag the rebar with bar types refined and the customized the rebar tag.rfa

 

 

1. Set Windows^® settings to display the Rebar Bar symbols correctly in the project browser. The steps are ,

• Click the right button in Desktop, go to display properties
• Click Appearance Tag
• Click Advanced in the left bottom of the dialog

  In the Advance Appearance dialog, choose Menu for Item and Revit for Font.

Launch a Revit Project (.rvt), the Rebar Bar types in the project browser will display correctly.

Note: By default, the other software Menu Fonts will also follow such settings, if it doesn't meet the expectations; please restore Windows® menu font after exiting Revit.

Other special symbols could also be created in this way.

Various Line Style Settings in Revit

User can change line style of element from several places: Object Styles, View Visibility/Graphic Overrides, Override Graphics in View by Filter and Override Graphics in View by Element. What are the differences between them?

Object Styles: you can get it from Ribbon tab Manage > Settings > Object Styles and open the dialog (Figure 1). In the dialog, you can change line styles in all the views in this project environment.

(Figure 1)

View Visibility/Graphics Overrides: you can get it from view element properties dialog, clicking Edit button of parameter Visibility/Graphics Overrides (Figure 2). You can also get it from Right-click element> Override graphics in view> by Category. In the dialog, you can override the line style of categories in the VIEW. The override will not affect the line styles in other views.

(Figure 2)

Override Graphics in View by Filter: you can get it from Right-click element> Override Graphics in View> by Filter. You can also get it from view element properties dialog, clicking Edit button of parameter Visibility/Graphic override>Filter tab (Figure 3). You can add a filter of elements by certain Element/Type parameters and override the line style of the filtered elements in CURRENT view.

(Figure 3)

Override Graphics in View by Element: you can get it from Right-click element> Override Graphics in View> by Element (Figure 4). In the dialog, you can override the line style of selected elements in CURRENT view. The override only affects the line styles of selected elements in current views.

(Figure 4)

IN SUMMARY:

So the priority of these settings is: Override Graphics in view by Element>Override Graphics in View by Filter>View Visibility/Graphics Overrides>Object Styles. The affected area for each setting is listed in the following table.

 

	Override Graphics in View by Element	Override Graphics in View by Filter	View Visibility/Graphics Overrides (i.e. Override Graphics in View by Category)	Object Styles
Affected range	Selected Elements in the view	Filtered elements in the view	Category in the view	Whole project

Webcast Series Featuring Revit Structure

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Time: 10:00 – 11:00am PDT

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Join Autodesk Marketing Manager Scott Hammond for this live, one-hour webcast as he demonstrates how to leverage AutoCAD data using Revit Structure 2009.

Webcast Series Featuring Revit Structure

Register to attend our webcasts featuring Revit Structure 2009!

Leveraging AutoCAD Data with Revit Structure 2009 Register Today >

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Time: 10:00 – 11:00am PDT

Revit Structure provides industry-leading DWG compatibility for data import and export. It supports the process most engineering firms use with their clients by producing consistent and layered DWG files using user-defined layering standards; nothing in an exported DWG file ends up on the wrong layer. This level of accuracy eases client interactions and expedites the design and construction process.

Join Autodesk Marketing Manager Scott Hammond for this live, one-hour webcast as he demonstrates how to leverage AutoCAD data using Revit Structure 2009.

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How to map shx font to TrueType font in Revit Structure?

Some customers told me that after importing/linking .dwg with .shx fonts into Revit Structure and when printing some of those .shx fonts will be plotted very thin or gray. It's important to know that Revit Structure supports only TrueType fonts. However, there is a way to map .shx font to your desired TrueType font.

Here are the steps (from Revit Structure Help):

"Revit Structure 2008 User's Guide > Interoperability > Import/Link > Importing or Linking CAD Formats > Mapping AutoCAD 2008 SHX Fonts to TrueType Fonts

When you import AutoCAD 2008 drawings that contain text, you can map the AutoCAD 2008 SHX fonts to TrueType fonts so they appear correctly in Revit Structure. You can map to any of your existing fonts.

NOTE: For SHX fonts that are not mapped, Revit Structure will use a similar font, but the results are unpredictable.

To map TrueType fonts:

Open the shxfontmap.txt file in a text editor ex. Notepad. This file resides in the "Data" folder of the Revit Structure installation directory (Figure 1).

(Figure 1)

Enter the SHX file name and the font to map it to, using the following format:

filename.shx<tab>fontname (Figure 2).

(Figure 2)

Save and close the file.

Note: You do not need to restart Revit Structure for the font mapping to take effect. If you have already imported the file, you will need to import it again."