Revit Structures vs Tekla Structures

[Anonymous]

I see lots of posts on this subject and to be honest am confused over which system to push harder. In our office we have both, we tend to use Revit on the smaller jobs and Tekla on the larger more complex jobs, mainly because on those we work closer with the steel and precast manufactures and can pass native tekla model downstream.

Does anyone else have experience of this?

On the Revit side we have had issues taking in some Revit Architecture models to Revit Structures as some of the elements are not recognised, are there better solutions for this. We have similar problems with Tekla but to be honest we just reference in an IFC file and work around it, if it changes we run a clash check.

Has anyone found more upto date learning materials on revit structures, we have new staff starting all the time and often find simple movies are a great way to learn. On the Tekla side we point them to http://www.tekla.com/international/solutions/building-construction/videos/FirstSteps/index.html and then put them on a 2 day course.

Advise would be appreciated

[johk02]

I thought Tekla was a Shop Detailing Program while Revit is geared towards
generating CD's. They are aimed towards to different things?
Jonas

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I see lots of posts on this subject and to be honest am confused over which
system to push harder. In our office we have both, we tend to use Revit on
the smaller jobs and Tekla on the larger more complex jobs, mainly because
on those we work closer with the steel and precast manufactures and can pass
native tekla model downstream.

Does anyone else have experience of this?

On the Revit side we have had issues taking in some Revit Architecture
models to Revit Structures as some of the elements are not recognised, are
there better solutions for this. We have similar problems with Tekla but to
be honest we just reference in an IFC file and work around it, if it changes
we run a clash check.

Has anyone found more upto date learning materials on revit structures, we
have new staff starting all the time and often find simple movies are a
great way to learn. On the Tekla side we point them to
http://www.tekla.com/international/solutions/building-construction/videos/FirstSteps/index.html
and then put them on a 2 day course.

Advise would be appreciated

[Anonymous]

I think from memory it used to be specifically for that but the configuration we brought allows documentation to the level of GA drawing production in the same way as Revit. We are getting great benefits though as the Fabricators we are working with accept our model after a few simple checks and it's really saving time on some of our larger projects. We did a similar thing with Revit but had to provide an SDNF file and half the information was missing.

It seems they are running in parallel in our experience

[Anonymous]

Why do you run a clash check?
cant you just compare ifc files to see what's changed?

[Anonymous]

Mainly because comparing IFC files will only compare the information from the Architect and check whether he has changed things. However saying that we could also export and IFC file from Tekla which we have done a number of times to send back to the Architect.

With version 14 of Tekla running a clash check allows us to check our native data in Tekla against external data from the Architect as there maybe elements that clash from both sets of design changes and we feel it's more accurate to do it this way.