Introduction

When considering the integration of Tekla Structural Designer and Autodesk Revit it is important to understand that the information transferred is essentially the physical information associated with the structure - e.g. geometry, section sizes and grade, number of studs and slab thicknesses etc.

Tekla Structural Designer is a code-based modeling tool to enable Structural Engineers to establish a code compliance design of the structure (for example EC3, BS8110, AISC). Autodesk Revit is principally a physical modeling tool for the production of drawings, material lists and BIM coordination. As Revit does not hold ‘code’ specific data it is important to understand that all the design/code data is held within Tekla Structural Designer at all times.

The integration process allows users to pass models to and from Tekla Structural Designer and Revit, updating changes to the physical model whilst also allowing both parties to concurrently update their own versions of the model. As the model is integrated between software applications, the user will find that changes are updated whilst additional items created since the last export operation are maintained within the model.

What's new in this version?

For new features and improvements, see the release notes.