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Importance of Revit Structure in Structural Engineering

The Building Information Modeling software Revit Structure is bringing better prospects for Structural engineering firms. Considering the fact that structural engineering is a complex field, Revit Structure has brought great relief to the companies providing structural engineering services. The use of Revit Structure in Building Information modeling has in a manner changed the way construction activities used to take place. Working with Revit Structure gives the project more clarity and efficiency. Revit Structure’s implementation in structural engineering has largely decreased the time taken to complete a project. Since its various features make the work easier it ultimately speeds up the construction activities.

Revit Structure helps in making a Computable Building Model of the project

Revit structure helps in making a computable building model which is the combination of the physical representation of a building with its analytically representation. This computable model is very helpful in the production of structural design and coordination. Structural engineers depend largely on analysis which forms the core part of structural design process. However, when we talk about architectural engineers they hardly make the use of analysis.

The physical representation mentioned above represents the physical layout of the building structure. This includes walls, columns and beams etc.

Design Coordination in Revit Structure
One of the most important features of the Revit Structure is that it helps design coordination. Designs can be easily coordinated with the different Revit disciplines. This means that the different engineering teams working in a project can easily coordinate their design. For example an architect makes a certain change in his or her design it can be directly viewed by the structural engineers in the Revit Structure. Since Auto desk Revit has already has it’s different disciplines like Revit Architecture, Revit structure, Revit MEP, so it becomes easy to coordinate with these disciplines.

Clash Detection
Revit structure helps largely in the clash detection. Since coordination can be done with different disciplines clash detection also becomes very easy in Revit Structure. By finding out clashes in these early stages it makes it easier for the engineers to execute the project properly.
All the above mentioned description of the Revit Structure explains it clearly that it is very crucial in Building Information Modeling.

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