Analysis Results Transfer from Revit to Advance Steel

Use the Advance Steel Extension for Revit, to transfer analysis results from a Revit project to an Advance Steel model.

Note: For the analysis results to be transferred, besides the Advance Steel Extension for Revit, you also need to install the Robot Structural Analysis Toolkit. You can download both add-ins from the Autodesk App Store.

Workflow

Analysis results are transferred using the .smlx format. You need to export the model using the Advance Steel Extension.

Export the model (or selected parts of it) from Revit: Add-Ins tab Advance Steel Extension panel Export.
Import the smlx file in Advance Steel: Export & Import tab Revit panel Import.

Analytical nodes, which hold the analysis results from Revit, will be created at each necessary beam end.

Analytical nodes are also available inside the Advance Steel Synchronization dialog. The dialog is able to spot the deletion of a node, the creation of a new one or the modification of the analysis result values inside any of the nodes.

The Synchronization dialog has a Node filter that displays only the lines related to nodes. Two columns are also available, in order to display the force and moment values from inside a node, from the File (smlx file) or the Model. The columns are named "Efforts…-File" and "Efforts…".

You can add columns in the dialog:

Right click on the table header
Select Add Column Model Efforts...

For each force or moment direction, the differences between the smlx file and the model can be displayed in a separate dialog. You can access this dialog by double-clicking on the three dots present on each synchronization line.

What is transferred

Only the analysis results from Load Combinations are transferred from the Revit project to the Analytical Nodes in Advance Steel. The Load Cases are not imported.