Autodesk partner Prokon has announced the beta availability of a new link that facilitates the transfer of steel and concrete information to Prokon from Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis. 

PROKON RobotLink

The PROKON RobotLink is a add-on for Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis 2011 that facilitates the design of steel and concrete members in PROKON® Structural Analysis and Design. With the PROKON RobotLink installed, you can transfer steel and concrete member information to PROKON in a few easy steps. Member geometry and design forces are transferred to the relevant PROKON module, where you can perform the design checks and (in the case of concrete members) generate steel reinforcement bending schedules.

Additonal details can be found on the Prokon website at http://www.prokon.com/structural/robotlink

Autodesk partner Prokon has announced the beta availability of a new link that facilitates the transfer of steel and concrete information to Prokon from Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis. PROKON RobotLink The PROKON RobotLink is a add-on for Autodesk® Robot™ Structural... Nicolas Mangon

For fans of Revit in German speaking countries there is a new Revit blog that you might interested in viewing. The content of this blog will be in the German language only and is a testament to the growing number... Nicolas Mangon

For fans of Revit in German speaking countries there is a new Revit blog that you might interested in viewing.  The content of this blog will be in the German language only and is a testament to the growing number of Revit experts and fans world wide who want to share their deep knowledge with a wider Revit community.

Users can access this new blog at RevitDE

Here is how the authors of this blog describe their site:

About RevitDE:

RevitDE is the first blog about Revit Structure in german language. The general aim of this blog is to provide tips and tricks for Revit users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH).

During our training courses we noticed a great reservation to English tutorials, so we think a blog in German will help many users to find a better way to Revit .

The authors Thomas Hehle, owner of the engineering consultants TH-CADKON, and Axel Gehring, CAD Applications Engineer at Hafner’s Büro, hope that this blog encourage the Revit Community in these countries.

 

Sometimes, users would like to customize the tag representation such as units, rounding, and unit symbols as per the locale structural engineering custom, e.g. for the below tag,

There are 3 parameters need to be labeled – Depth, SpaceNum, Panel Point Load. And the type for them is defined respectively as:

Depth: Length

SpaceNum: Integer

Panel Point Load: Force

Users would like to report Depth in inches, and no unit symbol show up; use N for the SpaceNum units; use K for the panel point load units, and the precision for it should be one decimal, just like,

However, as we all know, unit settings in Revit will follow the ones that set in project environment rather than in family editor. This is defined by default in the unit setting and it is unchangeable, see below,

In this case, even if we set the units well in the tag family, when users use it in project, they have to change the units setting in project to match to the tag representation.

However, for the tag family, there is an option "Use project settings" for the parameter's unit format which can be used to decide whether project unit setting or family unit setting to be used. This could be defined as below,

 

Thank you

Wai

Sometimes, users would like to customize the tag representation such as units, rounding, and unit symbols as per the locale structural engineering custom, e.g. for the below tag, There are 3 parameters need to be labeled – Depth, SpaceNum, Panel... Nicolas Mangon

Just for fun this week the following Revit bloggers are offering a chance for readers to win one of 7 free copies of a full version of Utilities for Revit 2011 offered by Avatech Solutions

 

Post something on one of the following Revit blogs and you are automatically entered but it's only for the next ffew days!

 

1.   Revit Journeyman

2.   The Revit Kid

3.   Revit OpEd

4.   RVIT

5.   CAD vs. BIM Blog

6.   Do U Revit?

7.   Adaptive Practice

Just for fun this week the following Revit bloggers are offering a chance for readers to win one of 7 free copies of a full version of Utilities for Revit 2011 offered by Avatech Solutions Post something on one of... Nicolas Mangon

CSC has announced that their CSC Revit Structure Integration software is now available for download. The software fully supports integration with Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2011. As a Premier Structural Partner with Autodesk, CSC has developed software to enable our industry... Nicolas Mangon

CSC has announced that their CSC Revit Structure Integration software is now available for download.  The software fully supports integration with Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2011.  As a Premier Structural Partner with Autodesk, CSC has developed software to enable our industry leading design solutions, Fastrak and Orion, to fully integrate with Autodesk's Revit Structure.

Additional information as well as the link to download can be found here:

http://www.cscworld.com/revit/

 

Revit Structure 2011 users with valid subscription can take advantage of an updated Extension that assists with the analysis and design of composite floor systems. This newly updated Extension, which is now available on the Subscription Center, provides analysis and design capabilities for composite and non-composite floor layouts  using the current AISC 360-05  design specification. The integration of this analysis and code checking capability inside Revit Structure enables structural engineers and designers the ability to perform analysis and make code check centric decisions earlier in the design process.

 
Figure 1: Composite Design Extension Main Screen

 
Figure 2: Composite Design Showing Beam Detail

Revit Structure 2011 users with valid subscription can take advantage of an updated Extension that assists with the analysis and design of composite floor systems. This newly updated Extension, which is now available on the Subscription Center, provides analysis and... Nicolas Mangon

All, I am pleased to announce the release of Web Update 1 for Autodesk Revit Structure 2011, which is available via Live Update in the product or on Autodesk.com at http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure-downloads The update can be applied to all languages of... Nicolas Mangon

All,

 

I am pleased to announce the release of Web Update 1 for Autodesk Revit Structure 2011, which is available via Live Update in the product or on Autodesk.com at http://www.autodesk.com/revitstructure-downloads  

 

The update can be applied to all languages of Autodesk Revit Structure 2011. We are still in the process of updating the various download pages for each language, but you can download the update from the English page in the meantime.

 

A list of the enhancements can be found on the download page or you can click here for an English version of list.

 

Regards,

__________________

Wai Chu

Product Manager,

Revit Structure

This is a repost of the announcement from our partners at RISA that the RISA - Revit 2011 Link is now available. ---------------------------------------------------- The all-new RISA-Revit 2011 Link is now available as a free download for both RISAFloor and RISA-3D... Nicolas Mangon

This is a repost of the announcement from our partners at RISA that the RISA - Revit 2011 Link is now available.

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The all-new RISA-Revit 2011 Link is now available as a free download for both
RISAFloor and RISA-3D users. This two-way link is compatible with Revit Structure 2011 (both 32 and 64 bit versions) and allows you to transfer information more seamlessly than ever between Revit and RISAFloor or RISA-3D.

This latest version of the link not only transfers shared coordinate systems,
leaning columns, sloped beams, and enveloped gravity/lateral end reactions,
but also has been completely overhauled for more robust behavior and
significantly increased speed. 

Whether you are new to the Link, or are already using the Revit Structure 2010 Link, download the latest version from our website below and try it out today!  Visit www.risatech.com/revitstructure to download the new Link today!

Visit www.risatech.com/revitstructure to download the new Link today!

For more information on the updates in the latest Link see What’s New

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We've published a new video that demonstrates how the Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Spreadsheet Calculator tool allows users to link new or existing spreadsheets directly and dynamically to Robot Structural Analysis Professional models. Many aspects of the analysis model can be extracted to the spreadsheet including data about sections, member sizes and an array of analysis results - allowing users, for example, to “plug in” their own design code check spreadsheets to real time Robot results.

Because the video is fairly long we have split it into part 1 and part 2 which  can be accessed on YouTube at the following locations:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo6N6XyRZ_M

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxVZrapj_E

We've published a new video that demonstrates how the Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Spreadsheet Calculator tool allows users to link new or existing spreadsheets directly and dynamically to Robot Structural Analysis Professional models. Many aspects of the analysis model can... Nicolas Mangon

Hello all, Just wanted to let you know about two news announcements that went out yesterday from our partners who are publishing the Official Training Guides for our 2011 products. There are other companies out there publishing guides, but ASCENT... Nicolas Mangon

Hello all,

 

Just wanted to let you know about two news announcements that went out yesterday from our partners who are publishing the Official Training Guides for our 2011 products.  

 

There are other companies out there publishing guides, but ASCENT and Wiley are the only two publishers designated as “Official Training Guides.”

 

ASCENT Publishes Autodesk Official Training Guides

 

Wiley Publishing to Provide Autodesk Official Training Guides