Autodesk® Robot⢠Structural Analysis (Robot) is a structural analysis and design software application. Use it to analyze any type and shape of a structure as well as
to design elements of the structure (steel, concrete, timber elements).
The Integration with Robot Structural Analysis extension allows you to:
- transfer a structure model defined in Autodesk Revit to Robot.
- update a structure model in Autodesk Revit after making changes in Robot (after structure calculations, the design of structure elements, and changes in the structure geometry).
Algorithms implemented in Robot allow analysis of geometry of a structure model defined in Autodesk Revit. It also allows advanced meshing of planar elements (plates, walls, shells) included in the model. Analysis of the following
structures is possible:
- Curved walls and floors/panels in any plane
- Shear walls and cores
- Walls and floors with openings of any shape
- Mixed material models
NoteUsing Integration with Robot Structural Analysis you can work on a part of large structure models. You can select a structure
part in Autodesk Revit and load it to Robot or load a whole structure to Robot, select a part of it and transfer to Autodesk Revit.
Using the complex modeling and analysis capabilities of Robot, users of Autodesk Revit can directly analyze their models.
During the Autodesk Revit - Robot link process, entities/elements are converted as described:
Structural Elements
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Objects
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- Structural Slab and Wall
- Structural Column
- Structural Beam
- Structural Bracing
- Foundations
- Curtain wall
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- Panel
- Column
- Beam
- Bracing
- Supports
- Panel
- Panel +Bars
- Panels + Bars
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Boundary conditions
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Supports
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Top and Bottom Releases of Elements Start and End Level Offsets, z-Justification
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Releases Offsets
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Materials
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Materials
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Loads
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- Point loads
- Line load
- Area load
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Load Case and Case category
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Load Case and Load Nature
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Load Combinations
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Load Combinations
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Additional objects:
- Grid lines
- Levels
- Lines, dimensions lines, texts
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- Grid line
- Levels / Stories
- They are not transferred; they are saved and restored when a structure model is exported or imported again.
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After transferring the Autodesk Revit model to Robot, you can perform structural analysis in Robot; then the computational model is created using the finite element method.
Robot will perform the following types of analysis:
- linear
- steel, concrete, and timber design to many codes
- dynamic
- seismic, including time history
- non linear, geometrical and material
- buckling.
You can transfer changes in structural data (such as those arising from steel design or a buckling analysis performed in Robot) to Autodesk Revit. Integration with Robot Structural Analysis allows for changes in:
- geometry of initial structure
- section size
- materials
- structure members (for example, definition of new members in Robot)
- additional components of a structure model (stiffeners, eccentricities, releases, rigid links, elastic ground)
- loads
- supports
- additional items, such as member numbers, steel design parameters, RC design parameters, and parameters of steel connection
design. These items may be needed to avoid re-generation of a model in case of subsequent further transfers from Autodesk Revit to Robot.