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Structural Analysis for Revit provides cloud-based structural analysis to structural engineers as a part of the BIM process. With Structural Analysis for Revit, engineers and designers can extend design models from Revit to the cloud for structural analysis. Results can then be visualized and explored within Revit and disruptions to a designer or engineer’s workflow are minimized by performing analysis in the cloud as design continues.
Here are 5 things you might not know about this service.
For a selected part of a structure, supports are created automatically in places where the model is cut off from the project.
Before you define parameters of your analysis the service extracts the analytical model from the Revit project. It checks the cloud resources and then it checks if the analytical model has already been uploaded to the cloud. Finally it verifies and uploads the model to the cloud.
Verification of the model before it is uploaded checks if it is correct from the viewpoint of structural analysis. This verification ensures that the model being analyzed is correct and the analysis results are reliable. It also prevents uploading models with errors to the website.
Traditionally conducting structural analysis is time intensive requiring extensive computing power, however, with Structural Analysis for Revit, a designer or engineer can continue their design in Revit while static or gravity analysis is performed in the cloud. As analysis is conducted, designers and engineers can work on structural documentation or run another parallel analysis with a different set of parameters of the analysis.
You can define a new analysis in the Analyze in Cloud dialog …
…or when your model is already uploaded you can do it from within the Structural Analysis website.
You can simultaneously display several result types in the view and in the detailed view.
Results Manager dialog box shows the list of available results packages, as well as their status and location. The results of the analysis you performed can be stored in several ways:
Performing cloud based analysis from within Revit helps to streamline the design process and provide analytical results early and often to inform intent.
Structural Analysis for Revit is one of tools in the Autodesk Industry Collections for AEC. Read more here.
You can download Structural Analysis for Revit from the Autodesk Apps Store.
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