Bolted Connections in Autodesk Revit

[Anonymous]

I downloaded trial version of Autodesk Revit and was evaluating it. I quicly went through the tutorials and now have an understanding of how the structural modeling in Revit works.

I did not find any materials on Bolted Connections between the structural members though. Revit should be able to do bolted connecitons just like any other structural designing softwares shouldn't it?

[Anonymous]

Help! Anyone? Please.

[Joe.Charpentier]

There are no specific tools for designing and detailing bolted connections within Revit.

You can detail connections by creating some loaded face-base families and extending/trimming beam and column elements as necessary.

There are also a number of extensions and add-ons for Revit that contain this functionality.

Joe

[Anonymous]

I am surpirsed that Revit does not have ability do design and detailing of bolted connections. I assume AutoCAD Structural Detailing does have it though (Both of these come with Building Design Suite). So I would have to design the structural steel in Revit and export it to AutoCAD Structural Detailing and do design and detailing of the bolted connection there?

[Anonymous]

When I look at the features section of Autodesk Revit, I see this picture saying "Improved Positioning of Beams and Braces". It shows bolted connections. Apparently its not done in Revit?

[Joe.Charpentier]

It is possible do this type of modeling in Revit- the example that you show is a Revit model.

However, as I said, there are no specific tools inside Revit to model connections.  You can do this type of modeling by creating your own Revit families.

There are no dialogs or “wizards” that automate this kind of modeling within Revit.

If you are a subscription customer, there are a number of extensions that you can download from the Autodesk subscription site that provide additional detailing capabilities. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-AGJeMCfhY)

Also, as I said in my previous post, there are a number of other partners (such as SDS/2 and CSC) that provide add-ons for steel detailing.

Also, you should note that “design” (that is member sizing and code checking) is not done within Revit.  This is accomplished through add-ins that either:

-facilitate the transfer of data back and forth between Revit and your analysis program.

-runs the analysis in the add in, and provides that data to Revit.

Hope this helps clear things up.

Joe

[Anonymous]

So if we model the steel structure in Revit and import in Autocad Structural Detailing, will we be able to do that bolted connections modeling. I believe ASD has some wizard that has some degree of automation with bolted connections.

When I say design I am not worried about the code checking or member sizing. I'm just talking about the modeling.