Description
Engipedia Structural Layers application is Autodesk® Revit® Add-in with a purpose to extract structural layers from layered structures in Revit: Walls, Floors, and Structural Foundation Slabs.
Its unique workflow gives you the ability to get structure from Revit Walls and Floors. Once the structure is extracted, the model can be used as a structural model, or as a reference for formwork plans in the architectural model.
Add-in works in several stages:
- Analyzes current types of Walls and Floors in the model. (Structural Foundation Slabs are floors in the Structural Foundations category, but basically act the same as floors).
- Types where types that are not considered structural are shown with a green background.
- Types with only one structural layer in the core are presented with a blue background.
- Types that have a structural layer in the core but also have other layers are shown with white background – these types can be “peeled” of layers.
- User select types from which structure will be extracted.
- When the tool is running, end result will be a model with only the structural layer in the Walls and Floors category.
- The tool will select only the types which have one structural layer in the core. The structural layer is the one that has the “Structural Material” checkbox checked.
- Types with a structural layer will be shown in the table on the right. By default, all the types will be selected in the column “Selected”.
- Selecting a type in any of the tables will show their layer composition in the table on the bottom.
- The bottom table also has a feature to set the core layer as a structural material and apply it to the type without leaving the tool. Such changed types will automatically appear in the table on the right.
- Selecting the types in the right table and running the “Change Selected Type(s)” command will change selected types in a way that they will end with only one (structural) layer. The tool will also impact instances of each type in a way that the structural layer will stay in the same place as it was when it had other layers in type.
This way the end result will be a model with only structural layers.
Warning: this will change the model drastically. To avoid loss of work or unwanted results, the preferred workflow is as follows:
- Save your model as a new model with a different name.
- Run Engipedia Structural Layers to extract structural layers from walls and floors.
- Save the model.
- Continue working on this structural model, or LINK it into your original model.
Other features:
- Tool add each type change as separate Undo command so everything can be undone type-by-type.
- The tool can automatically set every instance as “Structural”. This can be switched off in Settings.
- If needed, the tool can also change types with 0 instances (change setting to show types with 0 instances).
- User "Update Structural Checkboxes" to update any Walls/Floors instances with structural material to have Structural instance parameter checked (this can be used later for filtering).
About This Version
Version 1.0.20.1214, 2/10/2021
Initial release with minor bug fixes.
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