For those of you waiting for the release of ASCENT’s Autodesk Revit 2023: Fundamentals for Structure learning guide, I thank you for your patience. Autodesk has made some pretty amazing changes to Revit this year, and one of the major changes is with the structural analytical information. Because of this change, I needed to take a hard look at the current Fundamentals for Structure guide and evaluate the content. As Autodesk continues to present new tools with each release, this fundamentals book has become jam-packed with lecture material and practices that are testing the tensile strength of instructors. Many instructors were finding it increasingly difficult to squeeze everything into a four-day class.
What has changed with structural analytical information?
With the release of Revit 2023, Autodesk announced that structural analytical modeling will no longer be created automatically with the physical structural elements when modeling. Instead, you will create the analytical model separately by manually adding analytical nodes, members, panels, openings, and links, or by using the structural analytical automation tool. Click here to read more about pre-Revit 2023 analytical elements versus the new 2023 release, published by Autodesk.
Based on this major change to analytical information as well as customer and instructor feedback, I have made the following changes to this learning guide.
ASCENT Revit 2023: Fundamentals for Structure changes:
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The book has been divided into three sections: Revit Tools and Project Setup, Design Development, and Construction Documentation. This learning guide now aligns with the same structure as the ASCENT fundamentals Architecture and MEP.
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The chapters in the first section were reworked to present a smoother workflow: starting with an introduction to Revit, then moving into how to start a project (including linking and importing files), creating levels and grids, and working with views. The first section then ends with an in depth look at Revit families and the basics of sketching and modifying tools.
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Revit families and template files that are needed for the practices have been added to the practice files folder. This is due in part to the Revit content libraries not being installed with the installation, as well as making it easier for users to have everything they need to complete the course without additional installations.
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Removal of Chapter 10: Structural Analysis. Prior to 2023, it was important that new users learned and understood structural analytical information because it was included in the model. With the new technical change to the software that makes structural analytics a separate process, “analytical elements” has become a more advanced topic. I solicited further feedback from customers and instructors and the overwhelming sentiment was that users do not need this information when they first use Revit Structure, and in fact, many companies leverage other third-party structural analysis tools. For this reason, I decided to fully remove structural analysis content from the guide. As an added benefit of this change, instructors now feel that this will better fit into 4 days of teaching time.
I hope you like the new changes and look forward to hearing how this works for you, so please keep the feedback coming!
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