Please see a list of items that I think need to be addressed in Revit regarding structural analytical model. They are listed in order of importance that affects our company......
- Allow Revit’s modify tools to adjust the analytical model
- Make sure this doesn’t cause connected nodes to move
- Make sure this doesn’t cause connected nodes to move
- Make sure this doesn’t cause connected nodes to move
- Trim/Extend single element
- Trim/Extend multiple elements
- Trim/Extend to corner
- Mirror Pick Axis
- Mirror Draw axis
- Offset
- Provide an option to unconnect nodes that are currently connected based on graphical selection
- Provide an option to add nodes to any analytical member along its length…..
- Currently a user cannot add nodes to an analytical model, and in order to add rigid links between two members, nodes are required. This means I cannot add rigid links between two members at midspan or anywhere along its length if they don’t currently have nodes along its length and only have nodes at each end…..
- Provide an option to select a vertical analytical member and force it to be 100% vertical just like the physical column has a vertical column feature..... This would help when aligning analytical columns with beams that accidently rotate out of plum.......
- Provide an option for nodes to be added between intersecting members that are at different elevations or even better would be to add rigid links between crossing members that are at different elevations/levels..... The feature to add nodes at member intersections at different levels is so a user can add rigid links between members where they cross each other but are on two different levels. See below image for example.... I need the floor joist that cantilever over the blue highlighted SIL beam to be connected via rigid links...... which means I need to add nodes to each member at their intersection locations even though they are at two different elevations because the floor joist sit on top of the SIL beams and need to add rigid links between these two members at their intersecting location in the vertical direction.....
- Revit example
- RISA structural model example showing rigid link between joist and sil beams
- Provide users the connection rules that the analytical automation tool is using to adjust the analytical model as it creates the analytical model....... and give the user the ability to modify the connection rules depending on what members are being selected to be added to the analytical model at any given time…. Currently this tool does a horrible job of making adjustments to the analytical model correctly as it creates it and users have no way of making adjustments to the rules it is using to make adjustments except for specifying a distance and selecting member adjustment priorities…….
- Example…. I may have two floor joist that are close together and are parallel to each other, but their ends may be further away from the a perpendicular beam that their supposed to be connected too..... And if their end nodes are closer to each other than the perpendicular beam that they need to be connected to the software moves them together and sometimes doesn’t even connect them to the perpendicular beam as shown below. So I would want to specify that the automation tool only allows members to be lengthened or shortened to create a connected node and not adjust the members laterally at all when ever i select the floor joist to be added to the analytical model......
I would love to receive beta versions of these updates as they are made to test them out.
I need these updates/improvements as soon as possible and I listed them in order based on importance and what items I thought were more critical to improving our structural workflow, time, and effort. I am currently loosing money on every structural job that I have started with Revit 2023. I have lost a few thousand dollars and had to consistently call clients and push back deadlines already this year (and we are only in February) because of the amount of time I have had to spend dealing with these issues I have presented above and need these issues fixed asap.
I would also like to be on contact with the actual software engineer that is making these changes so we can maintain constant communication while these improvements are being made.
Thanks
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