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ABD SIG: Creating the Structural Model

Danny Lazear
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Register for the Next ABD SIG: Creating the Structural Model!

Online Event:  ABD SIG: Creating the Structural Model

Live Q&A Webinar:  Tuesday, November 25th at 8:00 AM PST or 4:00 PM PST

Cost:  None!  Must register to receive video links and connection info.  Register here!

Description: AECOsim Building Designer is a single building information modeling (BIM) software application for multi-discipline teams. It enables architects, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers to design, analyze, construct, document, and visualize buildings of any size, form, and complexity.  AECOsim Building Designer includes capabilities of former products: Bentley Architecture, Bentley Mechanical, Bentley Electrical, and Structural Modeler.

   For our second ABD SIG topic, Creating the Structural Model, we will cover the essential aspects to using ABD to create the structural model.

   To get maximum benefit from this Special Interest Group “flipped classroom” meeting, registrants will be assigned to watch some free videos introducing the different components of ABD.  Questions can then be posted on Be Communities.  The webinar itself will briefly go over the assigned videos, and then will answer any questions that have been posted or asked during the webinar.

To register for ABD SIG: Creating the Structural Model, please visit the BentleyLEARN site: http://learn.bentley.com/app/Public/GetLiveCourseOfferings?CourseId=111704&lpId=107221&FreeForAll=True

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    Here are some questions that were emailed to me so I will post them here to get some discussion going:

    I am a structural technician and I am responsible for the MicroStation in my office. In my office we are mostly Revit or ACAD with MicroStation being a newcomer. Unfortunately I am having problems that I cannot solve myself.

    1) We would really like to be using dynamic views, unfortunately we can never get them exactly right. We get them close but the hidden lines generally let us done. Could we get an example of the perfect dynamic view for structural use? I have done many courses and seen many examples yet when I try to use them in my work something goes wrong.

    2) When we use dynamic views with concrete beams with slab infills between them, we do not get hidden lines where we should. We have to do a lot of masking out.

    3) Concrete beams and concrete slabs – do you need to create the beams and then infill the spaces with slab?? This could end up in having lots of slabs, so if the slab thickness changed then it would need to be changed many times. Is there a way of putting in the correct size beam, with the top of beam at SSL but the beam cutting back to the underside of the slab?

    4) Structural text – I have beam sizes automatically showing on my drawings. Some beam sizes need to be rotated, or moved, I do this using the “manipulate Structural graphics” which works fine, I save, save settings. But when I recut the section (DEM) the text moves back to where it was. We have really complex drawings and this has resulted in us being unable to use the structural text and having to write it in.


    These problems are resulting in us under performing and we need answers, if you could help that would be brilliant. We are using MicroStation on live projects.
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    Here is some from an architects view doing this for a while. build it like you would in hte real world

    3. Place beams and then slab on top of beams. It what ever order you'd like. The slabs might come from the architect's drawing

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