Rebar reinforcements - Some sugestions and opinions

[EduardoTx]

Hi all,

Beeing a structural engineer in a precast company, the making of the production drawings is a task that is very time consuming.

Using REVIT should be the fastest way to do it. And I belive it will be (in a near future i hope).

With that in mind here are some sugestions:

1) In the schedules the shape of the rebar, with dimentions, should be drawn alongside the identification and quantities;

2) A rebar clash detection would be welcomed;

3) It shoud be possible to automatically identify and overlap rebars with over, for exemple, 12 m;

4) In an assemble, and when you have several elements with the same rebar setting and disposition, if you change 1 stirup (for example) in one of them, REVIT creates another assemble with an different name, and doesn't update the others and a simple modification has to be done 1 by 1 in all the elements that are equal from the start, creating a "group" option would be great.

As far as I know, some of the sugestions above were available as standard in Autocad SD or Advanced Concrete so it should not be dificult to implement them in REVIT.

Thanks for your time

[Anonymous]

I agree. Why discontinue Structural Detailing and Advance Concrete if Revit can't do the same thing?! Implement  these crucial functionalities as soon as possible. Suggestions 1, 2 and 3 should be easily implemented and they should have been in Revit long ago...