Drawings Fabrication Management Structural Engineering 
Construction Cost Estimating
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Plans are like a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams that are used to narrate a place or object or to communicate building or fabrication instructions which are drawn or printed on paper and can take the form of a digital file. So these design drawings can be categorized as: • Feasibility studies. Concept drawings.
BIM & Beam
APRIL 11, 2018
Steel components like plates, bolts, anchors, shear studs, and welds can now be placed in the 3D model to connect structural members together. Having a more accurately defined design model in Revit also enables a better interoperability with Advance steel for steel detailing and fabrication. Standard and Custom Connections.
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BIM & Beam
JUNE 6, 2016
We’re excited to share this great customer story from UK based fabricator TSI Structures. They used BIM-based workflows between Autodesk Revit and Advance Steel to reduce their anticipated schedule time by approximately 20 percent. Read more.
The Constructor
NOVEMBER 19, 2011
The most common causes of structural failures are: (1) Poor communication between the various design professionals involved, e.g. engineers involved in conceptual design and those involved in the supervision of execution of works. (2) 2) poor communication between the fabricators and erectors. (3)
CAD Shack
DECEMBER 24, 2009
This week I needed to create some structure from the structural engineers AutoCAD plans since they were not using Revit. The way I got around the above mentioned error was to open a structural model I received from a different engineer on a different job. Autodesk Fabrication 2013 at Autodesk University 2013.
BIM & Beam
AUGUST 1, 2018
This is the third blog post in a series that discusses the advantages of working on concrete projects in a BIM process for structural engineers. Segmentation is dictated by engineering, architectural, or fabrication requirements, and its reinforcement is determined by the structural engineer.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 14, 2016
Occlusion Culling (2016R2) - The Graphics tab in the Options dialog offers the new setting: Draw visible elements only. Display of walls - Revit will regenerate walls only for those visible within the drawing area. It is one reason we started to use a Workset to manage linked file loading and unloading. has finally been tackled.
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