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    <title>idea One-click, out-of-the-box Steel Takeoff en Revit Ideas</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/one-click-out-of-the-box-steel-takeoff/idi-p/8219279</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Clients request and/or pricing sets are always being requested with tonnage. But Revit doesn't even calculate the weight of a column the same way it does a beam or rebar.&amp;nbsp; Getting a crude, but quick tonnage report that (by default) would include all forms of structural steel;&amp;nbsp; Columns, Beams, Joists, Rebar, should be one-click.&amp;nbsp; Then simply uncheck the types that you don't want to see.&amp;nbsp; Getting a tonnage report out of Revit "Structure" should absolutely be a One-Click, out-of-the box function.&amp;nbsp; It is currently WAY too hard to get a tonnage/takeoff that is anywhere near accurate enough to be useful.&amp;nbsp; Yesterday I attempted to get a tonnage report for a 310,000 SqrFt structure, and it came out to roughly 35 tons...&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This tool would be used every day.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:33:15 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>bingramRUWHQ</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-08-23T12:33:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>One-click, out-of-the-box Steel Takeoff</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/one-click-out-of-the-box-steel-takeoff/idi-p/8219279</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Clients request and/or pricing sets are always being requested with tonnage. But Revit doesn't even calculate the weight of a column the same way it does a beam or rebar.&amp;nbsp; Getting a crude, but quick tonnage report that (by default) would include all forms of structural steel;&amp;nbsp; Columns, Beams, Joists, Rebar, should be one-click.&amp;nbsp; Then simply uncheck the types that you don't want to see.&amp;nbsp; Getting a tonnage report out of Revit "Structure" should absolutely be a One-Click, out-of-the box function.&amp;nbsp; It is currently WAY too hard to get a tonnage/takeoff that is anywhere near accurate enough to be useful.&amp;nbsp; Yesterday I attempted to get a tonnage report for a 310,000 SqrFt structure, and it came out to roughly 35 tons...&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This tool would be used every day.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:33:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bingramRUWHQ</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-23T12:33:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: One-click, out-of-the-box Steel Takeoff</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/one-click-out-of-the-box-steel-takeoff/idc-p/8219675#M22316</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It should be a no-brainer, but it's not always that easy. The easiest way would be to get a rough tonnage, meaning to get the "full length" of the steel profiles = the length from one node to another in the analytical model.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To get the exact tonnage would mean a full detailing with shop drawings, and that's not yet possible in revit. You could export revit model to Advance Steel, detail everything to shop drawings, and then create a tonnage report in Advance Steel.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:24:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ipselute</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-23T14:24:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: One-click, out-of-the-box Steel Takeoff</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/one-click-out-of-the-box-steel-takeoff/idc-p/8219872#M22319</link>
      <description>Yeah, I know it's not that easy, but I am happy to hear you say "yet". For Structural software that already know the volume per foot, and the length of every member in the model, it should not take a month for a decent programmer to consolidate all of that information and have the code compiled to run at a single click. I would certainly agree that is would be more complex for joists (which are dynamically generated multi-family assemblies) which have different individual element thicknesses depending on the load design, but even that information should already there, because I assume that Revit uses the existing/resident L-angle families to generate a joist.&lt;BR /&gt;I know that there are lengthly work arounds, but that's why I put it in "Ideas". Because it SHOULD be one click. You just haven't written the code yet.&lt;BR /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:21:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>bingramRUWHQ</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-08-23T15:21:13Z</dc:date>
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