ASD VS Revit Structure

[smm.144]

Hi all,
Though this question might seem silly but I have no idea why Autocad Structural Detailing exists? What is the use of it when project is being modeled in Revit? When should it be used?

[david_peterson]

Adesk came up with it so they had an answer when people like me say Revit sucks to detail connections in.
So basically they did it for shop drawings. Since you can only export once and you can't bring the connection info back into revit...... I'd tend to way your correct. Why does it exist. Same goes for some of the re-bar tools. I can add beam bars with the extension, but I can't relate it back to a schedule so why should I bother.
I can see that you may want this function for the life cycle of the building, but the shop guys would be the ones adding this info (IHMO) hence again the need for ASD to quickly create shops.
It's just one of those Adesk wants to have a product available for anyone that wants to do anything with visualization or construction. ie they want more money.

[David Harrington]

if you want the real answer... because they *had* it. When they bought Robobat, it came with ASD. The developer of that made a case that the product could grow and sold if continued and so it has.

[m20roxxers]

This is like comparing Revit to Tekla, or ETABS to SpaceGASS.

ASD is a detailing package, therefore if you are a detailer you are more likely to use this program.
In some of the more industrial work we have done on some of the smaller building the whole project has been modelled and detailed in ASD-Steel.

I personally find no real use for ASD-Formwork though it has some nice plan generation capabilities, we're still waiting in Revit for a few of the goodies ASD has.

ASD-Reinforcement is still an option to be considered. Our team uses RC-CAD primarily and in certain cases Revit, though I have a feeling in the future we might be able to change this.

Hope this helps to realise that ASD is for fabrication/manufacturer/supplier detailing where Revit more for the Consultant Design Intent level work. Ofcourse there is cross-over, but not a massive amount IMHO.