Experience with ROBOT Structural Analysis?

[nobitabre82]

Our firm loves some Revit, does anyone have experience with ROBOT? The idea that the two can work together is appealing. Most of what I can find online about the function of ROBOT is produced by Autodesk and I'd like some more neutral opinions. We mostly do 10 story, steel frame buildings that are generally governed by wind.

 

[Lomarandil]

It's usable, but I find that it has two primary weaknesses:

(several years ago) the Revit integration was not great. Can it be done? I'm sure. But it would require a lot of discipline in the Revit modeling and some cleanup afterward. From what I hear, in many cases, it's just simpler to build a separate structural model.

The reporting is bad. I just got a 200 page ROBOT report from another engineer for a small shade structure. And it's mostly unreadable -- poor formatting, table headers broken, etc. I eventually found a few graphical shear and moment diagrams a few hundred pages in, did some spot checks, and threw the rest out.

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