CUKON – For Working with Structural Reinforcement

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

TagAll button will tag all structural rebars in an active view. In settings you can select witch rebar tag do you want to use for multi rebar annotation or for single rebar annotation. Also if you Override Graphic in View → By Element → Halftone, TagAll button will ignore this rebars.

Free KennySTRUCT – Increase Productivity and Save Time on Structural Projects

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Main Features

• Structural Views (automate callouts, sections and detail views for beams, columns and walls)
• Rebar Visibility (hide and show rebars in views)
• Rebar querying and modification tools (select rebar hosts, delete rebars, copy rebars)
• Rebar documentation tools (Hide and tag multi-rebars, tag rebars in section and assign rebar layers)
• Drawing production and documentation (Create sheets and places views in sheets)
• Foundation coordinates and Pile numbering
• Modify elements (Beams in Beam systems, Allow Beam end joins)
• Merge elements (Merge colinear beams, merge multiple planar slabs

Fab2018 and BIMREV – Structural Automation for Reinforcing, Sheets and Annotation

On LinkedIn, Sena Kahraman has been posting about her company's BIMREV add-in. Here's what we know about it...

From LinkedIn (links are to posts with videos)...

We have completed the scissor reinforcement of our BIMREV software, which we are developing with C# Revit API. Now you can use the BIMREV software, which we automate without wasting time, for the equipping of prefabricated elements. Post: https://bit.ly/4c8rBYg

With our BIMREV addin, which we continue to develop, you can now automatically reinforce the gutter element. Post: https://bit.ly/3RnLiDt

With our BIMREV addin, which we continue to develop, you can automatically reinforce the purlin element. Post: https://bit.ly/3VytvvQ

With our BIMREV addin, which we continue to develop, you can automatically put reinforcement in the crane beam element. Post: https://bit.ly/3XagXfq

With our BIMREV addin, which we continue to develop, you can automatically put reinforcement in the Double T Slab element. Post: https://bit.ly/3z2XyCX

Free Dynamo Scripts for Rebar in Revit from AGACAD

From the AGACAD website:

Available scripts:

• Diagonal rebar around wall openings and wall perimeter 
• Edge reinforcement around wall openings and wall perimeter 
• U/O stirrup rebar around wall openings and wall perimeter
• Vertical and horizontal rebar meshes for walls

Download here »

Beam Rebar

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Beam Rebar add-in is a tool for Autodesk® Revit®, designed to help create Rebar for Beam quickly, with an intuitive interface, making it easy for users to use.

Using this add-in will speed up the Rebar modeling for Beam. As a result, it helps you quickly takeoff reinforcement quantity for Beam and deploys the beam reinforcement drawing in the next stage.

You can see the manual video here: https://youtu.be/sIZqEiqA15k

This document details how to use the Beam Rebar Revit Tool of Alpha BIM Software: https://bit.ly/3jao9Tc

Beam Reinforcement

From the AGACAD website:

Rebar detailing tools for automated reinforcement, shop drawings and CAM-file-generation for precast concrete beams in Revit®

Beam Reinforcement is a feature of our Precast Concrete structural design software for Autodesk® Revit® that lets you create, update and modify reinforcement for rectangular, L and inverted T beam sections in Revit models.

Column Reinforcement

From the AGACAD website:

Rebar detailing tools for automated precast design and detailing of reinforced concrete columns in Revit® models

Column Reinforcement is a feature of our Precast Concrete structural design software for Revit that lets you create, update, and modify reinforcement for columns with corbels in Revit models.

Place main reinforcement, stirrups, and corbel rebar based on rules you set in the configurations. Main rebars may have multiple top, bottom, and center rows; may be extended; and may have couplers. Tie selected main bars with stirrups, which can be different shapes, and distribute them along the RCC column. Position of corbels will be tracked automatically and rebar placed based on your configurations.

Wall Reinforcement

From the AGACAD website:

BIM software for placing steel reinforcement bars in solid & multi-layer concrete walls in Revit® models

Wall Reinforcement is a feature of our Precast Concrete design software for Revit that lets you create, update and modify reinforcement for solid, double, and sandwich walls in Revit. It recognizes the shape of the wall panel and distributes the main reinforcement and additional reinforcement for the wall perimeter and openings. Using Wall Reinforcement, you can place vertical, horizontal or diagonal rebar, edge reinforcement, and U/O-bar.

CADS Rebar Extensions for Autodesk® Revit®

From the Autodesk App Store:

Save time by automatically generating reinforcement in Revit using the free unlimited trial of CADS' Extension Tools for a range of standard concrete structures. Select the structural concrete elements to be reinforced, launch the appropriate tool or select the automatic generation tool. Specify the parameters to be used when reinforcing the structure. Supported concrete elements include: beams, columns, continuous footings, parapets, pile caps, concrete piles, retaining walls, slab corners, slab openings, spread footings, wall corners and walls.

The Rebar Extensions were originally developed by Autodesk but due to their close partnership with CADS they have asked us to develop and maintain the extensions. These extensions work with CADS RC3D for Revit which is an Autodesk® Revit® extension designed to enhance the placement, annotation and bar marking of reinforcing steel in all kinds of RC structures. CADS RC3D takes the 3D modelling functionality of Revit to the next level allowing rebar to be divided up into particle groups (bar ranges), bar marks to be created and managed, detailed reinforcement (shop) drawings to be created with a single click! Bar bending schedules are automatically created and material lists exported to external production software file formats such as BVBs, aSa, Soulé and Excel.

CADS Markup also comes with CADS RC3D and allows structural engineers to annotate a Revit model with reinforcement information to convey the design intent to reinforcement detailers effectively avoiding the process of manually marking reinforcement regions on printed general arrangement drawings.

Fill Transverse Rebar

From the Autodesk App Store:

FillTransverseRebar tool is a simple and effective tool that allows you to fill stirrup rebar automatically in many spans of structural framing.

Note: Once this app is purchased, it can be used for 15 days without activation.

You need to activate the app to continue to work with it after 15 days. Please send the request key to jspsolutions.addin@gmail.com to get the license key and to activate the app.

The interface of FillTransverseRebar

Sketch-tag Reinforcement – Tags for Reinforcement in the Form of Sketches

From the Autodesk App Store:

This add-in creates tags for reinforcement in the form of sketches. The sketch-tag contains a standard rebar drawing with the lengths of straight segments of the bars. The sketch-tag is oriented taking into account the real position of the bar on the current view. Sketches-tags are placed around the existing conventional annotations or around the rebar.

In this trial version, sketching is available for several shapes of reinforcement. You should use the example file which, after installation, can be found in the folder ... Users \ Public \ Documents \ Autodesk \ Downloaded Content \ Ar-Cadia \ SketchReinforcementMini \ SketchTagDemo.rvt.

S.T.A. DATA - BIM Inside Structural Detailing

From the Autodesk App Store:

BIM Inside - Structural Detailing is a plug-in that allows you to create masonry-reinforcement concrete slabs, views, rebar details and marks for structural sheets of reinforcement concrete structures.

Functions allow you to:

• create masonry-reinforced concrete composite slab;
• create detail view of main structural elements;
• create rebar details updating them according to the model changes;
• define a unique mark for structural elements.

All functions are developed with the aim of:

• use methods and native objects (families) so that users can manage and modify their results;
• optimize and simplify the creation of structural sheets by managing joints between different structural elements.

Masonry-R.C. composite slab

Structural Design Dynamo Package v1.0.5

From the Revit blog:

Structural Design package version 1.0.5

By Tomasz Fudala
February 7, 2019

Three months ago, I published the Structural Design Dynamo package, which supports various structural workflows in Dynamo and Revit. I shared some example scripts [here and here] based on the package. I also taught a class at AU on this subject.

Since that time, many of you have reached out to me. First, I would like to thank you all for your positive and inspiring feedback!

Many of you have started to use this package on your everyday projects, but some of our international friends found the Geometry.GetWindowDoorOpeningCharacteristics node a bit limited.

In the previous version of the package, some of the parameter names were hard-coded (names of the dimensions of opening type parameters, host thickness).

I have good news to share – version 1.0.5 of the package comes with an updated node.

Learn the Power of Dynamo and the Structural Design Package for Automated Reinforcement Detailing – Part 2

From the Revit blog:

Learn the Power of Dynamo for Automated Reinforcement Detailing – Part 2

By Tomasz Fudala
December 13, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll continue the subject I started a few weeks ago. In Part 1 I covered how structural engineers and detailers can automate reinforcement designs with Dynamo in the example of straight rebars around window and door openings. Let’s extend the functionality of the script by adding additional rebars for wall openings.

Learn the Power of Dynamo and the Structural Design Package for Automated Reinforcement Detailing – Part 1

From the Revit blog:

Learn the Power of Dynamo for Automated Reinforcement Detailing – Part 1

By Tomasz Fudala
November 27, 2018

In this blog post I would like to demonstrate how to automate reinforcement designs with the Dynamo graphical programming interface using the example of standard rebar designs for window and door openings.

Revit 2019.1 comes with Dynamo 1.3.3 preinstalled, however the workflows covered in this blog post are compatible with Dynamo 2.0. When you try to run scripts presented in this post you should make sure you are using Dynamo 2.0, which you can download and install from dynamobim.org/download.

Dynamo 2.0 can be installed side-by-side with an existing 1.x version allowing you to have control over which major version you use for your project. In Dynamo for Revit, you will be prompted to choose which version you wish to run on first launch of Dynamo. This setting is cached per-session of Revit. A restart of Revit will enable you to change to a different version of Dynamo.

Free Naviate Rebar Extension

From the Naviate website:

Automate the process of generating reinforcement for elements like beams, columns and piles. This application is Free for all Revit 2019 users, until further notice is given.

Save time...
When generating reinforcement for parameters like beams, columns and piles.

Increase control of your data...
On reinforcement parameters.

Optimise workflows...
With automatised processes for generation of reinforcement for elements like beams, columns and piles.

To generate the reinforcement:

• select the elements of the structure to generate the reinforcement
• specify the parameters used when generating the reinforcement

Autodesk Structural Precast Extension for Revit 2019 Update 1: Delivering More Automation

From the Revit blog:

Dan Peticila
January 15, 2019

It’s mid-winter in the northern hemisphere, and now is the best time to release some new tools for the projects waiting to be built in the spring. As a famous quote states: “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” And for everyone living on the other half of the planet, please be assured we are doing our best to constantly deliver exciting features across all seasons, like our quarterly Revit releases. With that said, here is a new update for the structural precast extension.

The Autodesk Structural Precast Extension for Revit 2019 Update 1 comes with new features for customers working on precast and cast-in-place concrete projects. One of the goals of this release is to enhance connectivity to the fabrication processes, which is why we’re proud to release the Extended CAM Export and the Unitechnik UXML 7.0 CAM Export. This update of the application is available via the Autodesk Desktop App. It is important to note that it works on top of Revit 2019.2, released on January 16, 2019.

Naviate Structure

From the Naviate website:

Naviate Structure is an add-on for Revit that will help you quickly make the correct documentation. Standards are built-in and everything is prepared to enable you to work smoothly in a BIM model.

CADS RC3D – Rebar for 3D Models

From the Autodesk App Store:

CADS RC3D has been designed to enhance the placement, annotation and bar marking of rebar in 3D structures. Building on the heritage of our world-leading detailing and bar listing software CADS RC / RebarCAD extends the detailing power of Autodesk® Revit®.

• The software provides functionality to create 2D detail drawings and bar bending lists to country standards.
• Additional annotation functions have been created to detail tapered ranges and mark rebar ends.
• Enhanced layering tools allow rebar to be split into zones within a structure, rebar visibility can be controlled using the layer assignment.
• Editing functions allow rebar to be copied from one structure to another.
• Rebar can be 'joined' together to form new bar shapes.
• Openings in the structure can be identified and trimming reinforcement added.
• Path placement functions have been enhanced to allow the rebar to be placed parallel to another rebar in the structure.
• Assign rebar to a structure, release and drawing sheet; manage the rebar according to these assignments.
• The rebar lists can be placed on drawing sheets or printed using industry standard templates.
• The bar list templates are easy to customise to company standards.

Use Case: Modelling Rebar in Revit with Dynamo

From the Autodesk BIM and Beam blog:

Rebar Modelling in Revit with Dynamo Use Case by ABT

Tomasz Fudala
October 28, 2015

In this post I want to tell you more about how one of our customers, ABT bv, used Revit and Dynamo to automate the reinforced concrete detailing of wind turbine foundations.

ABT is a multi-disciplinary consultancy firm, focused on the structural engineering, civil engineering, architectural engineering, building physics and installation engineering knowledge domains, with offices in Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

In 2014 they moved to BIM-based 3D rebar in Autodesk Revit for concrete reinforced design and fabrication for their wind turbine foundation projects, because they do a lot of these projects worldwide. Around the same time they first started to use Autodesk Dynamo. They are challenged to make these wind turbine projects as “flexible” as possible. Revit and Dynamo are perfect for achieving this as these projects are relatively small, the main focus can be set on reinforcement and they are highly parametric.