Construction Design

Get information about the workflow Construction design in connection cable trays as well as pipe and duct networks.

The Construction Design workflow includes commands that help you to edit pipe and duct networks or cable trays to make them ready for installation. Before using the fabrication-oriented functions of this section, it should be ensured that the networks are coordinated with all project participants with regard to positioning, calculation and dimensioning and that they are fully dimensioned. Subsequent changes to the pipe and duct networks or cable trays may make it necessary to repeat the steps you made with the commands of the construction design workflow to make corrections.

Among others, with the commands of this discipline you can cut ducts to producible section lengths, display pipes in available delivery lengths, insert flanges in pipe networks, add fixing elements to pipes, ducts and electrical cable trays, and assign item numbers to components.

If you want to carry out the construction design planning with the AutoCAD module LINEAR Design 3D Pipe&Power, you can export all the data required for generating the pipe and duct networks in AutoCAD to Revit using the Handover to Design 3D command and import them back into AutoCAD. This saves you from having to recreate the model manually in AutoCAD. Ideally, the Revit model should have been constructed with LINEAR Solutions as well. Due to the differences in modeling between Revit and AutoCAD, certain situations may not import without errors and rework may be required.