Revit Structure subscription customer? Yes? then you can benefit from Revit Extensions, an additional productivity toolset to enhance the features of Revit Structure.

Robot Structural Analysis subscription customer? Yes? then you get to benefit from even more Revit Extension tools as well as Robot Extensions, a productivity toolset to enhance the model generation and post processing capabilities of Robot based in MS Excel.

So here’s the deal.

With the 2010 release of Structural software, Autodesk have linked some of the Revit Extensions to the subscriprion of Robot Structural Analysis, or to give it its manageable, shortened title, RSA.  This is a great benefit to both Revit Structure and RSA users, which offers functionality that none of the 3rd party analysis partners can offer.

It is clear to see that, although Autodesk are keeping an agnostic approach with the analysis partners for Revit Structure, they are starting to offer more benefit for their own solution than for others, delivering a compelling argument for customers to start using both Revit Structure and RSA.

The additional extensions available to RSA customers are highlighted in the screen grab below, but are essentially the Analysis Integrator for RSA, Composite Design, Load Takedown and Reinforcement Design.

We will look at all of these in some additional posts, including Robot Extensions, but will start off with the one that takes my interest most of all and that’s Load Take Down.  For those die hard Robot fans of the past you will know a product that we developed at Robobat called CBS Pro, well this is CBS Pro within Revit Structure.  So now you can analyse your structure in Revit with a view to producing foundations loads sooner in the design process.

More on that to come shortly..

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