I am doing some research on structural analysis and load takedown options for a large project at an early stage in the design development. There are a few defining factors:
- Concrete flat slab.
- Varying bay sizes, but not too many transfer situations (yet…).
- Highly variable loading plans – some corridors to take up to 20kN/m2; some rooms with just 3.8kN/m2, but many other rooms with 7.5 or 10kN/m2, and some with 15-20kN/m2.
Particularly because of items 2 and 3, and the potential for these loading zones to evolve over the long lifetime of this project, I am looking for some thoughts on Revit’s load take-down feature; or alternatively, on developing a link between Revit geometry and Robot area loads, because it is unlikely we will adopt a full Revit-Robot link.
My main thought is that we want to maintain as few sets of loading plan geometry data as possible. Therefore, if we can maintain loading plans on a storey-by-storey basis in Revit and simply export that geometry to contour loads on plates, that would be ideal. Is this something that exists as a possibility already? Or would we have to build an extension from scratch? If so, should it be reasonably straight forward or does anyone foresee challenges with the API?
Any thoughts welcome.
