Revit Structure 3D
You’ll agree, I’m sure, that we live in a 3D world and that there is no longer any need to represent our ideas and innovations as simple, flat 2D objects on drawing sheets. As structural engineers with a great interest in architecture and the arts, we are fully embracing this new technology.
Our industry has been swept by a new generation of 3D Documentation. While this technology has been around for some time, Partridge Partners were not satisfied until now that it had developed to a stage where it could be used successfully for the types of projects we work on. Recent research has led us to the Revit Structure package supplied by Autodesk and we have commenced documentation of recent projects with this software. We are finding that Revit is allowing us to integrate a physical model — for layout, coordination and documentation, with independently editable analytical models for materials including steel, precast concrete, cast-in-place concrete, masonry and timber. The software can help streamline structural analyses by directly linking to analysis software.
The use of 3D software has the benefit of allowing document sharing across the extended project team. By directly linking to architectural models we can help make Building Information Modelling (BIM) more realistic and achievable. Our expectation is that this will lead to an improved accuracy of construction documents; allow project teams to collaborate more easily and respond quickly to project changes; and eventually allow engineering and architectural documentation to proceed concurrently.
We are also currently working with a steel fabricator to see how our 3D structural modelling can be more efficiently incorporated into the final structural steel fabrication workshop drawings so we can eliminate much of the double detailing which occurs in the traditional steel detailing approach.
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