
It would also be useful to create panels from façade elements for wind loading. In future releases we will hopefully see more Revit categories supporting an analytical model, an obvious addition would be the recently added bridge and infrastructure categories. Previous releases of Revit would not allow an analytical representation to be defined, however, you can now define an analytical model for in-place families which is useful for complex foundations.

A great example of this is when an in-place family has been used.

When representing certain structural systems and configurations, the analytical model can easily be defined and edited and then associated with the physical element. This allows Revit to be used much earlier in the design process and, importantly, to reuse and develop the design model right to the completion and handover of the model. As the design progresses, the analytical members can be associated with actual physical elements. However, at an early stage the materials and geometry may not be known. For example, an early design of a building structure may need some columns and framing to support a floor. The massive benefit of this new workflow is that engineers can now create early structural design models in Revit without having to worry about the actual physical members. However, automation is now more relevant than ever, as the analytical model is not generated automatically while the physical model is being built.

You can save these settings in view templates.A recent change to the methodology of Revit structural analytical modelling has enabled new workflows and capabilities when representing the Revit design model. Specify the symbolic representation of structural framing components, such as symbolic cutback, in the Structural Settings dialog.

