Revit for Structural Engineering

Revit Server Enhancements
Revit Server enhancements give you more control over managing central Revit models. Local accelerators can now connect to multiple hosts, allowing you to create a distributed Revit Server network. Autodesk® Vault Collaboration AEC workflow has also been improved.

Interoperability Enhancements
Revit offers the ability to import and export drawings to and from Bentley Microstation V7 and V8 file format, as well as improved export to DWF™ and DWG™ formats. This enables more dependable and configurable workflow and deliverables.

Enhanced Industry Foundation Class (IFC) Support
BuildingSMART International Industry Foundation Class (IFC) version 2x3 is now certified for Revit. With the certification, Revit complies with global industry standards, including GSA standards. Open source Revit IFC exporter has been enhanced to support emerging standards. You can propose changes to the IFC export to support regional requirements—this allows you to share information more effectively with third-party applications to support design workflows.

Revit Exchange App Store
The Revit Exchange App Store is a web platform that allows you to easily gain access to add-ins and other content in the Revit platform.

Dimension Enhancements
Revit offers enhancements to dimensioning capabilities.  A new diameter dimension tool enables an individual segment in a multi-segment dimension chain to be selected and deleted. In addition, dimension instances can now display the segment values, equality text, or the equality formula string.

Autodesk 360 Integration
Revit makes it easier for Autodesk Subscription customers to gain access to integrated Autodesk 360 features, including rendering and energy analysis. Send your designs to the cloud for faster, higher quality rendering and analysis without disrupting your workflow.

Enhanced Analytical Model
Enhancements to the analytical model allow for direct manipulation of floor and foundation slabs providing greater design flexibility. A new Analytical Link Element has been added to accelerate structural analysis by connecting offset columns or beams.

Improved Detailing with Area and Path Reinforcement
In Autodesk Revit and Revit Structure software, Area and Path Reinforcement have been updated. It is now able to host structural rebar, much like the way that beam systems and trusses host structural framing.

Improved Snapping-To Fillets and Hooks
This feature provides references on a stirrup/tie rebar fillet and hook that provide standard bars an additional reference for rebar joins. This enables the bar to update correctly based on any calculated change, and helps keep designs coordinated and accurate.

Reinforcement with Structural Wire Fabric
This feature allows you to add structural wire fabric to concrete elements. Structural fabric reinforcement can be hosted in structural floors, foundation slabs, and structural walls to support project needs.

Support Creation of Shop Drawing for Building Assemblies
Enhancements have been made to building assemblies, making it easier to define and manage the creation of shop drawings. Assembly Views can now be placed on regular, non-assembly sheets and can host regular views, helping to connect design to detailing.

Autodesk 360 Structural Analysis
Perform static analysis for various buildings from the cloud. Easily calculate different variants of the same model and use analysis results to inform design decisions earlier in the process with Autodesk® 360 structural analysis available on Autodesk Subscription. 

Parametric Components
Parametric Components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Revit. They offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making as well as an opportunity to express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use Parametric Components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for the most elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.

Citrix Readiness & 64 bit Support
Revit features support for Citrix® XenApp™6, giving you more flexibility and options for working from remote locations using a local server. Revit also provides native 64-bit support, helping improve performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.

Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Revit, all model information is stored in 1 place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the Revit model.

Revit Server
Revit® Server helps project teams in different locations to more easily collaborate on shared Revit models across a wide-area network (WAN). This Revit feature helps you maintain an integrated collection of central Revit models on a single server that can be accessed from local servers. Built-in redundancy helps provide protection in case of WAN connectivity loss.

Worksharing
Worksharing distributes the power of the parametric building modeling environment across the project team. Multiple users can share the same intelligent building information model and save their work to a central file.

Vault Integration
Autodesk® Vault Collaboration AEC software is designed to work with Revit. This integration helps streamline data management associated with architecture, engineering, and multidiscipline projects—from planning through design and construction. It can help save time and improve data accuracy. Now you won't even know you’re doing data management and can focus on the project, not the data.

Multiple Materials Modeling
Autodesk Revit and Revit Structure software include building materials such as steel, cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, masonry, and wood. Since the buildings you design are constructed of multiple building materials, Revit building software enables you to model your structure using the materials you need.

Structural Reinforcement
You can quickly and easily define and visualize concrete reinforcement in Autodesk Revit and Revit Structure. Methods for managing the definition of reinforcement as well as controlling its placement include:

• Multi-planer reinforcement support
• Support for hosting reinforcement in generic model families
• Accurate display of self-intersecting reinforcement bars
• Support for attaching stirrups beyond cover references

Design Visualization
Capture design ideas in a photorealistic state. With easy user interaction, high-quality output, and faster render times, the mental ray®* rendering engine enables superior design presentation.

Analytical Model
Tools in Autodesk Revit and Revit Structure can help you create and manage the structural analytical model, including control over the analytical model and consistency with the structural physical model.  Enhanced Analytical Model tools are:

• Control of visibility/graphics
• The inclusion of analytical parameters in analytical model elements
• The addition of a surface to floor, slab, and wall analytical models
• The addition of the “enable analytical model” parameter to physical model elements
• Easier identification of linear analytical model end segments
• Full edit mode for analytical adjustments
• Model adjustment features that allow for editing via nodes and direct manipulation widgets
• The ability to adjust linear analytical models at each end with projection and hosting behaviors
• Auto-detection for the preservation of physical element joins and attachments

Bidirectional Links with Multiple Analysis Packages
The analytical model in Autodesk Revit and Revit Structure software is bi-directionally linked with Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis software. With bidirectional linking, your analysis results will automatically update your model. Parametric change technology coordinates those updates throughout your project views and construction drawings. Revit also links to third-party structural analysis and design programs, facilitating the exchange of structural analytical information. The types of information that can be shared include:

• Release and boundary conditions
• Loads and load combinations
• Material and section properties

Interference Check
Use interference checking to scan your Revit model for collisions between elements.

Construction Modeling
New modeling tools help you derive better construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate objects, such as wall layers and concrete pours, to more accurately represent construction methods. Prepare shop drawings for fabrication with features that give you greater flexibility in documenting assemblies of model elements.

Structural Details
You can create details from views of a 3D model with additional annotations or from scratch with Revit structural 2D drafting tools, as well as import details from conventional CAD files. To help save time, import entire sheets of typical details in DWG™ format from previous projects. Dedicated drafting tools are available for structural modeling of steel and reinforced concrete details, such as:

• Welding symbols
• Anchor bolts
• Rebar
• Concrete area reinforcement

Material Takeoff
Material Takeoff is a Revit tool that helps calculate detailed material quantities and track material quantities in cost estimates. The parametric change engine helps support more accurate material takeoffs.

Point Cloud Tools
Revit® Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the BIM) process, helping to accelerate renovation and retrofit projects. By visualizing point clouds directly within the Revit software environment, it’s easier than ever to author an as-built model with more confidence and accuracy.

DWG, DWF, DXF & DGN Support
Revit imports, exports, and links your data with industry-leading formats, including DWG™, DXF™, DGN, and IFC, so you can more easily work with data from consultants, clients, or contractors.