Importance of AutoCAD, Revit and STAAD Pro for Civil Engineers

A civil engineers should contain adequate working knowledge in AutoCAD to make drawing smarter. Knowledge of other programs like Revit and STAAD Pro are also very crucial for other disciplines.

AutoCAD: Both AutoCAD and Civil 3D play an important role for making efficient civil engineering design. These programs facilitate you to generate quality plan sets. On the other hand, working knowledge of AutoCAD is not essential for construction engineers.

The design aggregation and documentation tools, which are in-built into AutoCAD, enhance productivity as well as simplify your design and documentation workflows and accelerate projects from design to completion whereas automate the tiresome manual drafting tasks.

AutoCAD allows to produce surfaces, solids, and offset curves dynamically and manipulate them with context-sensitive PressPull operations. 3D models are directly imported into AutoCAD from different types of applications, like SolidWorks, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Rhinoceros, and NX products and services to easily generate intelligent 2D views. Point Cloud tools facilitates you to import scanned objects with up to 2 billion data points. Physical 3D prototypes of your designs are instantly formed with AutoCAD's 3D printing capabilities.

Revit: Revit is an useful software for architects and other building professionals that can be used for architectural design and documentation. Revit facilitates the users to produce a perfect and detailed building model in quickest possible time.

Revit empowers the civil engineers to render the best performance with the creation of virtual illustration of building products. Starting from the Design Development & Coordination, 3D Modeling, Drawing Set Creation to Quantity Take-off, civil engineers can obtain the separate product specifications of the building which range from the color, tolerance, cost and other info. All these are essential to take informed decisions.

Revit provides the following advantages to the civil engineers:

a. Offer perfect, trustworthy and reasonable solutions
b. Substantiate the design of the model for constructability and performance
c. Maintenance of wood, steel and concrete structures like column, beam depths and clashes
d. Perform a detailed analysis of structural & MEP elements to render projects in risk-free environment

STAAD Pro: STAAD Pro is a handy software for structural engineers to make accurate structural analysis and design. The program supports the analysis of different types of structural elements like bridges, structural beams, floodgates, and much more. Civil engineers with a structural background are suggested to learn supporting programs like STAAD Pro.



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Autodesk launched newest BIM software called BIM 360 Design

Autodesk introduced new and advanced BIM Software known as BIM 360 Design to allow efficient collaboration in Revit by improving data sharing and permission structure.

This newest application will empower the team members to explore data and information across the BIM 360 Design platform as well as work in concert all together whether they’re a cubicle or a continent apart.

In addition, the system’s updated permission structure facilitates each team to obtain private virtual workspaces and distribute the on-going projects. From now onwards, the designers don’t have to send files to and fro, because all collaborators will perform in equivalent system.

With the help of a new Design Collaboration Module, teams can properly monitor the data exchange, milestone achievements, and deliverables on a visual project timeline.

Progress can be also monitored in an automated visual representation of the design and it will allow all the team members to check what is completed.

BIM 360 allows the users to avail everything from a web browser, making collaborative working well-situated and intuitive.

For more information, go through the following link bim360.autodesk.com



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Autodesk introduced Revit 2019

Revit 2019 is just introduced by Autodesk. It is the most updated version of the Autodesk’s multidiscipline BIM (building information modelling) software that is based on numerous user-requested features together with new functionality to facilitate obtaining design intent and better-connect building design and fabrication workflows.

Autodesk has made a good endeavour to seek customer input through the Revit Ideas (forums.autodesk.com) page where customers will get the chance to suggest and vote on features that will simplify their work in Revit.

Revit 2019 also comprises of the new features which were demonstrated to subscribers in Revit 2018.1 and Revit 2018.2.

The detail information is given in the public Revit Road Map (blogs.autodesk.com) to outline and develop Revit for providing support to its customers’ work over the full project lifecycle and software development is arranged across three areas:

Design: The facilities which allow the customers to competently produce information that capture design intent. Optimize: Endeavors to fine tune Revit software to facilitate the users to proficiently analyze, recapitulate and make informed decisions with the software developed for performance and scalability.

Connect: The facilities which authorize the project teams by serving them connect workflows and collaborate across the project lifecycle.

Download Revit 2019 autodesk.com/products/revit/free-trial

For more information, click on the following link blogs.autodesk.com



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Bentley System launched OpenRail – A robust BIM software for design & maintenance of rail and transit infrastructure

Bentley System launched OpenRail design and maintenance software to apply BIM for the broad planning, engineering, project delivery, and operations of rail and transit infrastructure.

It deals with vertical and horizontal track geometry as well as produce 3D models for analysis and visualization and reports for cost estimates and setting-out, and product construction deliverables. OpenRail will get together digital components and digital context, during digital workflows.

OpenRail applications will consist of OpenRail ConceptStation which can be used for conceptual railway planning and design. In future, OpenRail Designer will be accessible for detailed engineering and 3D design of track, overhead line, tunnels, bridges, and interrelated civil infrastructure and AECOsim Station Designer will be applicable for the comprehensive modeling of rail and transit stations.

OpenRail is developed on the basis of a connected data environment that includes the shared services of ProjectWise and AssetWise, as configured particularly for rail systems engineering workflows. Throughout project delivery, ProjectWise allows the collaboration between distributed engineering teams, coordination of structured workflows, and connected project visibility. For OpenRail, AssetWise delivers asset lifecycle information services for linear, network and geospatial referencing, corridor maintenance decision support, inspection workflows, and reliability and change management.

OpenRail CDE services contain Components Center for digital components, ContextShare for digital context, ComplyPro for progressive assurance, and ConstructSim Completions for accessing operational readiness.

Components Center is an Azure cloud service of libraries which arrange, across disciplines and applications, the semantic content of catalogued components, potentially including vendor data, fabrication details, component requirements (for example, electrical specifications and connections), reliability characteristics, and representational views necessary for documentation (as for instance, 3D, plan, schematic). A digital component is reprocessed across BIM workflows in design modeling, analytical modeling, construction modeling, and asset registries—from catalogued component, to engineered component, to installed component, to operated component.

To get more information, visit the following link www.bentley.com



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How to produce a 90 degree elbow pipe with AutoCAD 2017

This is another useful presentation from Mufasu CAD.

In this CAD tutorial, one will learn how to generate 90 degree elbow pipe by applying various commands like polyline, circle, shell and other commands.

This tutorial is specifically created for beginner’s level. The entire tutorial is made in AutoCAD 2017.

Tips to create a pipe bend :-

1. In the drawing area, choose a pipe that contains an open port.
2. At the end of the pipe, click a continuation grip.
3. On the ribbon, click Home tab ---> Part Insertion panel ---> Toggle Pipe Bends to allow pipe bends.
4. If you dislike to employ compass angle snap, on the ribbon, click Home tab --->Compass panel---> Toggle Snaps to deactivate angle snaps.

Watch the following video, to learn the complete process.

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How to create a 3D trash can model in AutoCAD

Musafu Cad comes with another informative autocad tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn the tips to create the design of a trush can (garbage basket) in 3D with autocad. The tutorial is designed for beginner’s autocad users.

The dimension in the rendered image can be provided with texture editor. You need to click at left part (where TEXTURE EDITOR is inscribed). Subsequently, you have to edit sample size value or Offset.

The similar process should be followed with MATERIALS EDITOR. If you enquire about render size, you can perform that in Render presets manager, just type RENDERPRESETS.

To get online demonstration of the process, go through the following video.

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