As more and more structural engineers connect to and embrace BIM workflows, analytical collaboration in BIM has been an important category of the industry demands which translates to users' requirements around desired analytical modeling productivity and model coordination practices. In this hands-on lab class, you will learn how to make the most of the structural analytical modeling tools available in Revit 2024 software. You will gain valuable insights into various structural analytical modeling techniques, including tips and tricks for modeling automation, as well as how to effectively apply structural loads to your analytical model. Additionally, you will practice bidirectional workflows between Revit and analysis software, with particular focus on tips and best practices for collaboration with Robot Structural Analysis Professional.

In this hands-on lab class, you'll learn how to make the most of the structural analytical modeling tools available in Revit 2025 software. You'll gain valuable insights into various structural analytical modeling techniques, including tips and tricks for modeling automation. Additionally, you'll discover effective methods for synchronizing information between analytical and physical models, learn how to effectively work with structural loads, and explore bidirectional workflows between Revit and analysis software.

Creating the analytical representation of the structural model in the Revit environment can be seen as the easy part. The ability to constantly check your assumptions while dealing with the analytical representation, ensuring connectivity during creation and editing, to be notified when something has changed—especially when you’re not the structural engineer—is the one that modifies the project. These can be tedious and time consuming. In this class, you'll learn how to have an analytical model that constantly reflects the structural model, and how to automate the process and integrate the structural analysis in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) models.

Engagement with building designers indicates high levels of enthusiasm for using Revit software at different stages to analyze carbon emissions, from concept to detailed design. However, challenges remain in defining modeling practices that facilitate fast and accurate analysis. One solution to this is the Revit Energy Analytical Model, which allows us to analyze carbon while we design our buildings. While the Revit Energy Analytical Model is an intelligent method to transform architectural models into analytical information, the setup and model view can be unintuitive, and can be impacted by modeling practices. Join Autodesk and FenestraPro to learn about workflows and tools that simplify this process, and hear how they worked together to resolve many of these challenges. FenestraPro, a leading Autodesk Partner, has engaged with designers globally and developed tools that provide intuitive pathways for facade design in Revit software, empowering designers to understand carbon emissions throughout the design process.

Revit 2023 software has completely overhauled the analytical modeling workflow. Now the physical and analytical models have the freedom to act independently. The analytical model elements must be created separately from the physical structure; however, you can still "link" them together. This ultimately gives better control over the analytical model and what it is allowed to represent. These changes are drastic, but don't worry. We're here to help explain how it all works, and have you give it a try in this hands-on lab. You don't need to be a structural engineer or a Revit structural modeler, because we'll show you how you could use the Revit analytical elements to help in the creation of physical walls, physical beams, and many other fun creations. In this lab, we'll also show you how to create your own workflows using Dynamo to customize the automation of the creation of the analytical elements.

In order to create an analytical representation of a structural model ready for analysis, there are some transformation, changes, and assumptions that need to be applied. In Revit software, the analytical model is created automatically as the physical model is built. Some structural configurations are not suitable for direct integration with analysis and design software. Adaptive adjustment is required. This could be tedious and time consuming. In this class, you’ll learn how to take full advantage of the analytical representation features in Revit, and how to integrate the structural analysis in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) models.

Expanding on our AU 2023 session—"Using the Revit Energy Analytical Model for Total Carbon Analysis"—and in acknowledgement of designers' enthusiasm to use Revit software for carbon analysis, this presentation will dive into the latest advancements. Over the past year, strides have been made in the development of Revit software's energy analysis features to offer more-powerful capabilities through the design process. This session will highlight workflows and tools developed by Autodesk and FenestraPro that will further streamline the analysis journey from concept to detailed design, and presents innovative solutions tailored to address the evolving needs of the industry. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to learn how these innovations will empower designers to integrate carbon analysis into their workflows. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the latest tools being developed in Revit for carbon analysis, and why these tools will unlock new possibilities for achieving sustainability goals in building design.

Cerro Corá Station is not a typical engineering project. It’s a 50-meter-deep and 50-meter-diameter cylindrical subway station, designed to accommodate two future subway lines intersecting within a single structural volume. The central structural element? A massive cylindrical retaining wall with four large structural openings—a challenge for any engineer aiming to maintain analytical accuracy and performance. Manually modeling such a structure analytically is time-consuming and a potential source of serious design errors. To overcome this, we developed a complete automated and interoperable workflow that begins with the physical geometry in Revit software, uses custom Dynamo routines to generate the analytical model—including the segmental wall with its four massive openings—and seamlessly transfers everything into Robot Structural Analysis 2025 software for structural analysis and verification.

Revit software’s analytical tools provide powerful capabilities for schematic MEP design. However, the lack of a native workflow to convert these elements into 3D system-based models often hinders their adoption. This session will share the workflow that both electrical and mechanical teams at IMEG have developed to tackle the challenge of transforming analytical intent into fully functional Revit MEP systems. You’ll learn how to map analytical elements to specific family types, create user-friendly configurators for precise family placement, and build complete systems by connecting MEP family connectors. We’ll demonstrate Automation, Integration, & Customization strategies using Dynamo scripting and robust Revit add-in development. This technical instruction will offer practical and repeatable workflows that enhance Revit software’s early-phase design and overall efficiency, while increasing confidence in its analytical and system modeling tools.

Participants will learn how to use Revit software as a powerful and rapid geometry creation tool. As energy analysts and mechanical engineers, we often require multiple energy analysis programs to produce energy performance models, compliance models for Title 24 and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), load calculation models, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. We can save significant time and money by using Revit software to create a single analytical model that we can export to various programs, including Simulation CFD software, eQUEST, energyPRO software, Trane's TRACE software, Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd.'s Virtual Environment software, and California's new CBECC-Com software. This class will provide a detailed workflow for creating the geometry and exporting to the various programs, and you will discover tips and tricks to help troubleshoot and control the quality of your mechanical, electrical, and plumbing designs.

Energy analysis has typically been a complex and time-consuming endeavor. At its foundation lies an Energy Analytical Model (EAM) and while advances in BIM have made significant gains in collaboration and productivity, EAM creation is still largely a skilled manual effort and subject to wide variability in BIM and energy analysis practices. A new feature in Revit 2014 Energy Analysis software that uses architectural building elements now greatly simplifies and standardizes EAM creation and subsequent analysis. This class provides background on what an EAM actually is, current industry practices and standards, and a comprehensive walkthrough of numerous worked examples directly in Revit 2014 to highlight how this new feature actually translates different architectural building elements and configurations into a high quality EAM, all without having to add, rebuild, or do any other bespoke model preparation, thereby helping you to deliver higher performing buildings more cost effectively and with greater confidence.

As more and more structural engineers connect to and embrace building information modeling (BIM) workflows, there is increased demand for analytical collaboration in BIM. Engineers are looking to increase their analytical modeling productivity while ensuring that their physical and analytical models are well coordinated throughout the design process. In this class, you’ll learn about a completely new approach to structural analytical modeling introduced in Revit 2023 software. This approach offers structural engineers more flexibility and control over their analytical modeling, particularly for complex structures, and therefore enables fully bidirectional workflows between Revit and analysis software. Moreover, you’ll learn how the new library-based steel connection design automation introduced in Revit 2023 enables you to design steel structures more quickly and accurately, using predefined and easily customized rules maximizing results of structural analysis.

In this hands-on lab, you will hear a real-life story of an architect and an engineer collaborating on specific building design. Together, we will walk through the major steps of the structural analysis workflow, and discover the features fostering the most effective use of tools for analytical modeling in Revit. For some steps, we will use customized Dynamo scripts to demonstrate the power of this visual programming tool that enhances the out-of-the-box Revit features with extra capabilities. You’ll learn how to send the analytical model to analysis software, where we will perform some calculations and design checks to experience the modifications of elements. We’ll close the loop by demonstrating the tools for effective version control and changes monitoring to update our Revit model with analysis outcomes and transition the changes from analytical to physical model. This is a full end-to-end workflow flavored with a dose of humor, which we all like and need.

Learn how to integrate analytics software with Autodesk, Inc., products and tools to improve project visibility and communicate progress, issues, and accomplishments to project stakeholders and executives. This instructional demonstration will provide the attendee with the opportunity to learn about data integration and analytics modeling using industry-leading tools (like Tableau). This class will highlight proven approaches to designing and integrating analytics into a project and will demonstrate how stakeholders have the ability to view charts and trends, including the ability to drill down into project data to identify challenge areas and apply corrective actions to improve the likelihood of a successful project outcome.

Design-driven modeling is a common occurrence in the engineering world, but seldom is this process adopted or taken advantage of downstream in Revit software for producing detailed constructible models—which is surprising considering the age of Building Information Modeling (BIM). By simply transferring (or manually adding) intelligent Finite Element Meshing (FEM) results data from your chosen design software to your Revit software model (better: analytical model), you begin to open a world of new possibilities. For instance, you can automatically generate 3D reinforcement based on the actual “design and loads” information now held in the Revit software analytical model. In this class we will look at how next-generation BIM workflows will utilize the power of FEM data embedded in Revit software's analytical model, and, combined with powerful BIM designers, will introduce design-driven processes for creating 3D reinforcement.

In this class, you will learn about the interaction between Autodesk® Revit® Structure, AutoCAD® Structural Detailing, and Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis software. We will focus on analysis, code checking, and analysis in the cloud. We will demystify the integration between Revit Structure and Robot Structural Analysis, refuting all rumors that the combination is not good enough to use. The class will cover the history of the analytical model in Revit and describe how it has improved. We will explain why you need it and talk about what you need to take into consideration when modeling. You will learn the proper workflow to achieve optimum integration as well as how to export and import files.

This class will discuss and demonstrate the new features and tools in Revit 2015 software that enable structural engineers to create far more accurate physical models. Whether the intent of the model is comprehensive design or as-built conditions, the new features in Revit 2015 software greatly enhance the user's ability to achieve greater precision and accuracy. This class will cover these many new features, from fine-tuning the ends of framing members to controlling the joining of members. Furthermore, this class will discuss how these new tools enable structural models to provide greater accuracy in the physical model while still maintaining greatly accurate analytical models.

Are you working on projects that require non-standard structural elements? Have you struggled with those shapes communicating across your analytical and Revit software models? This class will cover many things, including how to develop custom families that communicate bidirectionally between applications; how to properly map elements across models; how to develop an efficient, fluid, bidirectional workflow to avoid redundancy, increase coordination, and produce high-quality design documents and models; and how to integrate industry-standard third-party analysis tools (such as ETABS software) in a holistic workflow.

This class will cover the new features for Autodesk Revit Structure 2013 software. We will examine new features for creating and manipulating parts, including division profiles and merging and excluding parts. For assemblies, we will look at new features for types, origin, and views. You will learn about new reinforcing features for hosted area and path, rebar snapping, and placing structural wire fabric. Finally, you will learn about new tools for analytical modeling.

Analyze, Design, Evaluate, Repeat – the process of structural analysis is iterative. However, even in BIM-workflows, this cycle is often conducted in spearate software packages, where the analytical model is created and maintained independently. Redundant input and inconsistencies lead to an inefficient and costly process. As Revit automatically generates the analytical model along with the physical model, integrating structural analysis into a BIM-process gets reasonable and more critical, maintainable. The SOFiSTiK App, Analysis + Design for Revit, extends this concept and enriches the analytical model in Revit with additional properties, like design code specific materials, cross-sections or additional analysis elements. The entire analysis of buildings - from the definition of properties to the design of members and the visualization of results - can be conducted entirely within Revit.