

I didn’t find a way yet, because these walls follow the radius of the axis and void forms don’t cut round forms. The next step will be to cut out the real form of the wing walls. This is a very basic rendering of the model produced by Revit. All green because of the missing attributes.Īfter modelling the two pylons as project families, the embankments for the abutment and one of the abutments the model looks like that in Revit. So I decided to use project families for my modelling process. Besides that in RIB iTWO I couldn’t get any information out of the pylon without manually assigning the fitting attributes. But when it was finished I had problems to place it correctly on the floor plan. As external families, as project families („Mass in Place“)? I designed one pylon as an external family. So the next decission to make was how to design the elements. It is not possible to get only the axis out of the extension.

The families this extension produces cannot really be modified. There is an extension for Revit, the „Bridge Extension“ which can produce the axis and the whole bridge with some standard elements. This is the axis information and the floor plan of the concrete structures in Revit Structure 2012. But while transferring the file it has lost its three dimensional information. So the first problem to face is, how does the path of the superstructure, the axis, designed in Revit? I had the axis information in a database, which I was able to convert into a. In my case the bridge changes its altitude, it has a bank with 7.5 % and it follows a constant radius. The suprestructure and path of a bridge has a relatively complex structure. There are different ways to approach the modelling process of a bridge. The bridge is already built and I’m going to use the model to develop a computer based measuring method.

I started the modelling process in december 2011. Focused on surveying the construction process and its accounting. The aim of my thesis is to bring the building information modelling/5D process to the construction site to work with the model instead of paper plans, especially in measurment processes. I’m currently writing my diploma/master thesis in civil engineering.
