The Best Rebar Detailing

Tools for Revit

Alan Johnson / Joseph Pais
BIM Consultant / Product Director
About the speaker

Alan Johnson
Alan is a BIM Consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the
construction industry covering; Architecture, Structural Engineering, Civil
Engineering and Demolition. Alan started out as a draughtsman using a
drawing board and progressed to 2D CAD and then on to 3D CAD. Alan
worked for several Architectural and Structural practices as a
draughtsman / technician and spent many years working in Demolition
as a structural technician. Alan now works for Graitec as a Consultant
mainly providing training / consultancy and has over 6 years’ experience
in software training, including Revit, Navisworks, (and Tekla). Alan is
currently an Autodesk Certified Instructor and obtained a BTEC HNC in
Building in 2003.
About the speaker

Joseph Pais
Joseph is a structural engineer with 20 years’ experience in the AEC
industry. Joseph started at GRAITEC in 1997, first working at GRAITEC
France as a structural engineer doing presales and projects on the
internal calculation software’s (finite elements and reinforced concrete
design software’s). Today, Joseph is Product Director at GRAITEC
INNOVATION SAS in charge of all internal products and also provides
dynamic analysis and reinforced concrete consultancy to highly skilled
GRAITEC customers. Joseph has also taught dynamic analysis and
reinforced concrete design for more than 10 years at the French
university, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM).
Summary REBAR PROCESSING

REBAR DATA EXTRACTION

GRAITEC TOOLS What can we do with the
Rebar data in Revit?

GRAITEC REBAR TOOLS

REVIT TOOLS Discover the rebar detailing
and design tools to Powerup

NATIVE REVIT DETAILING your Revit for Rebar projects.

GRAITEC TOOLS
Quick overview of the main
native rebar detailing tools.
WHO’S GRAITEC
Few words about GRAITEC
company, who we are?
Learning Objectives #4

Get quantity takeoff and

#3 analytics for the entire rebar

project

Automate more, generate

#2 design driven rebar cages

Stop wasting time generating

#1 rebar schedules and bending
details, do it in few seconds

Generate and detail

parametric 3D rebar cages
in few clicks
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REVIT NATIVE REBAR TOOLS
Diameters Hooks
Revit Native Rebar Tools

Shape
 Revit Native Rebar Tools

We have to create first the rebar objects in 2D views before being able to see them on 3D views!
 Revit Native Rebar Tools

Up to the reinforcement drawing sheets!

1 Revit Model
2 Define
Sections 3 Define
Elevations

6 Add views to
drawing sheets 5 3D Cage
derived from
2D views
4 Add rebar,
labels and
dimensions
Creating 3D rebars and drawings in Revit

How much time?

GRAITEC Design & Detailing tools
 GRAITEC Advance BIM Designers

Advance BIM Designers is a suite of BIM tools for improving structural rebar project management from design
to detailing:
• Work in Multiple BIM environment
• Design the Reinforce Concrete members
• Detail them in a fast way
• Document them
• Track the changes
 BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Copy rebar
Parametric rebar cages
 BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Transversal distribution
 BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Bending details
 BIM Designers – Detailing tools

Several available detailing tools:

Rebar creation automation
 BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

The only way to fully automate the 3D rebar cages generation is to design the reinforced concrete members within
Revit

3D Design driven
rebar cages

Automatic views and

drawing sheets
Material and Bar
Schedules
Engineers Design
Report
 BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Either defining manually the loads:

 BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Either storing FEM results packages in Revit using the Autodesk Structural analysis toolkit:
 BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Those results packages become an input to design the RC members in Revit and get automatically the rebar
cages, on beams, columns, footings, walls and slabs…
 BIM Designers – Design driven rebar cages

Design Driven rebar cages:

Rebar processing
 Processus of Rebar data extraction
REVIT
Model

Rebar data Rebar data Analytics

Rebar model extraction processing
creation
Revit Rebar User’s parameters Plug-in Revit Excel
Excel
modeling (Powerpack)

Graitec BIM Revit Rebar Revit

Power BI
Designers modeling Schedules
model
 Rebar parameters

Graitec BIM Designers are storing additional rebar data in Revit as shared parameters
 Rebar parameters

Which can be used to generate Revit schedules:

 Rebar creation automation

And exported to Power BI to create some dashboards of the Rebar project:

Questions
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