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One-click, out-of-the-box Steel Takeoff

One-click, out-of-the-box Steel Takeoff

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.  Getting a crude, but quick tonnage report that (by default) would include all forms of structural steel;  Columns, Beams, Joists, Rebar, should be one-click.  Then simply uncheck the types that you don't want to see.  Getting a tonnage report out of Revit "Structure" should absolutely be a One-Click, out-of-the box function.  It is currently WAY too hard to get a tonnage/takeoff that is anywhere near accurate enough to be useful.  Yesterday I attempted to get a tonnage report for a 310,000 SqrFt structure, and it came out to roughly 35 tons...  This tool would be used every day.

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ipselute
Advisor

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.

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.

bingramRUWHQ
Participant
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.
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.

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