the best rebar detailing tools for revit

The Best Rebar Detailing

Tools for RevitAlan Johnson / Joseph Pais

BIM Consultant / Product Director

About the speaker

Alan Johnson

Alan is a BIM Consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the

construction industry covering; Architecture, Structural Engineering, Civil

Engineering and Demolition. Alan started out as a draughtsman using a

drawing board and progressed to 2D CAD and then on to 3D CAD. Alan

worked for several Architectural and Structural practices as a

draughtsman / technician and spent many years working in Demolition

as a structural technician. Alan now works for Graitec as a Consultant

mainly providing training / consultancy and has over 6 years’ experience

in software training, including Revit, Navisworks, (and Tekla). Alan is

currently an Autodesk Certified Instructor and obtained a BTEC HNC in

Building in 2003.

About the speaker

Joseph Pais

Joseph is a structural engineer with 20 years’ experience in the AEC

industry. Joseph started at GRAITEC in 1997, first working at GRAITEC

France as a structural engineer doing presales and projects on the

internal calculation software’s (finite elements and reinforced concrete

design software’s). Today, Joseph is Product Director at GRAITEC

INNOVATION SAS in charge of all internal products and also provides

dynamic analysis and reinforced concrete consultancy to highly skilled

GRAITEC customers. Joseph has also taught dynamic analysis and

reinforced concrete design for more than 10 years at the French

university, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM).

REBAR PROCESSING

GRAITEC TOOLS

REVIT TOOLS

Summary

GRAITEC

WHO’S GRAITEC

Few words about GRAITEC

company, who we are?

NATIVE REVIT DETAILING

TOOLS

Quick overview of the main

native rebar detailing tools.

GRAITEC REBAR TOOLS

Discover the rebar detailing

and design tools to Powerup

your Revit for Rebar projects.

REBAR DATA EXTRACTION

What can we do with the

Rebar data in Revit?

#4

#3

#2

Learning Objectives

#1

Generate and detail

parametric 3D rebar cages

in few clicks

Stop wasting time generating

rebar schedules and bending

details, do it in few seconds

Automate more, generate

design driven rebar cages

Get quantity takeoff and

analytics for the entire rebar

project

GRAITEC PRESENTATION

Who we are?

Innovative CAD and BIM software author, delivering cutting edge technology, and BIM

implementation and support services to the AEC industry

• One of the largest Autodesk® Partners in the world

• Offices worldwide with over 500 staff ready to help you succeed

• Started in 1986 – 30+ years expertise developing CAD, BIM and Design solutions

• Over 50 000 customers worldwide

• Extensive BIM Technology portfolio & tailored customer-success service

REVIT NATIVE REBAR TOOLS

Revit Native Rebar Tools

Shape

Diameters Hooks

Revit Native Rebar Tools

We have to create first the rebar objects in 2D views before being able to see them on 3D views!

Revit Native Rebar Tools

Up to the reinforcement drawing sheets!

1 2 3

6 45

Revit Model Define

Sections

Define

Elevations

Add views to

drawing sheets

3D Cage

derived from

2D views

Add rebar,

labels and

dimensions

Creating 3D rebars and drawings in Revit

How much time?

GRAITEC Design & Detailing tools

GRAITEC Advance BIM Designers

Advance BIM Designers is a suite of BIM tools for improving structural rebar project management from design

to detailing:

• Work in Multiple BIM environment

• Design the Reinforce Concrete members

• Detail them in a fast way

• Document them

• Track the changes

BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Parametric rebar cagesCopy rebar

BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Transversal distribution

BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Bending details

BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Rebar creation automation

Material and Bar

Schedules

Automatic views and

drawing sheets

3D Design driven

rebar cages

BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

The only way to fully automate the 3D rebar cages generation is to design the reinforced concrete members within

Revit

Engineers Design

Report

BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Either defining manually the loads:

BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Either storing FEM results packages in Revit using the Autodesk Structural analysis toolkit:

BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Those results packages become an input to design the RC members in Revit and get automatically the rebar

cages, on beams, columns, footings, walls and slabs…

BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Design Driven rebar cages:

Rebar processing

Processus of Rebar data extraction

REVIT Model

User’s parameters

Revit Rebarmodel

Rebar model creation

Revit Rebar modeling

Graitec BIM Designers modeling

Rebar data extraction

Plug-in Revit Excel (Powerpack)

Revit

Schedules

Rebar data processing

Power BI

Excel

Analytics

Rebar parameters

Graitec BIM Designers are storing additional rebar data in Revit as shared parameters

Rebar parameters

Which can be used to generate Revit schedules:

Rebar creation automation

And exported to Power BI to create some dashboards of the Rebar project:

Questions

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