We held our Structural User’s forum last Friday at ARUP’s offices in central London which was very well attended by a wide range of our customers, and I have to say, was the perfect location for our event.

Nigel Rees and Peter Debney from Oasys kicked off our series of presentations with an in depth look at OASYS structural software solutions. Oasys Limited is the software house of ARUP and has been established since 1976 and are committed to providing high quality software and support.

Ralph Pullenger of Autodesk then gave a great presentation on the new and improved features of both Revit Structure 2011 and Autodesk Robot Structural analysis.

Alpesh Patel then gave the group a fascinating insight into some of the major projects that he has worked on and discussed the challenges and solutions to some analysis problems and 3D modelling challenges that he faced.

After lunch I showed some of the new subscription tools for Revit Structure including the Frame Generator.

Mike Hacker from Waterman Group then gave us a run through on his experiences with Revit Structure and again showed some fantastic structures that had been modelled and in particular showed how he had set up templates and family files to Waterman standards.

Ralph was up next to show how you can use AutoCAD Structural detailing to generate 2D RC drawings and how ASD links to Revit Structure and Robot.

It was then the turn of Pierre Vogal, one of our civil application specialists, who then showed how to create surfaces in AutoCAD Civil3D and then how to import these surfaces into Revit Structure.

The last presentation was conducted by myself and Johnathan Ward and focussed on tips and tricks whilst using Revit Structure.

The day was rounded off with some interactive conversations and ideas for future events.

A good time was had by all!

LawrenceH