The Organization of Autodesk Revit Software Interaction with Applications for Structural Analysis

AbstractThe article deals with the export procedure of building construction parameters from Autodesk Revit to the program of structural analysis. At first, the procedure uses the C# plug-in, which extracts parameters of the construction elements from the Revit document and outputs them to a text file. The parameters can be physical (properties of materials), geometrical (size, coordinates, the cross-sectional shape) and other. Then, a special program-converter reads the file, generates a beam frame model and stores the information in a new format, which is compatible with the program of structural analysis earlier developed by the authors. This program allows to add both vertical or horizontal loads and moment to any of the beam frame nodes. The finite element method is used for structural analysis. The deformation schema is showed as the result of finite element analysis under the loads. The opportunity to get Microsoft Word document, which contains main characteristics of beam construction, is implemented