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Lawrence Hooker

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I am currently employed by Excitech, the largest Autodesk reseller in the UK.

 Hertford, Hertfordshire
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Joined January 2012
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Revit 2023 – New possibilities for structural engineers revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2023 – New possibilities for structural engineers

A recent change to the methodology of Revit structural analytical modelling has enabled new workflows and capabilities when representing the Revit design model. However, automation is now more rele…

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Secant and Contiguous Piled Walls – A Revit Tutorial revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Secant and Contiguous Piled Walls – A Revit Tutorial

Piled wall systems can be challenging to model in Revit, especially when the project stage goes beyond a concept into detailed design. This tutorial will focus on the use of Revit to manually model…

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Naviate Rebar unveiled for Revit 2023 revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Naviate Rebar unveiled for Revit 2023

Our new breed of reinforcement modelling tools, Naviate Rebar, has been launched earlier this week during the annual Autodesk University conference. Naviate Rebar is built on a completely new frame…

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Revit and Dynamo Tutorial – Placing family instances at world coordinates revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit and Dynamo Tutorial – Placing family instances at world coordinates

During my years of training Revit, many clients ask if there is a tool to place a Revit family at a world coordinate, perhaps issued by a contractor or a surveyor. In AutoCAD, due to everything bei…

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Revit 2023 – New possibilities for structural engineers revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2023 – New possibilities for structural engineers

A recent change to the methodology of Revit structural analytical modelling has enabled new workflows and capabilities when representing the Revit design model. However, automation is now more rele…

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Revit 2023 for Structures - What's New!

Revit 2023 for Structures - What's New!

In this Revit 2023 what's new video we focus on the Revit 2023 plat...

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Revit 2023 – What’s New revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2023 – What’s New

So here we are early April 2022, the New Year celebrations seems a distant memory, but spring is here, and we all look forward to longer days and some warmer weather! This year, Revit celebrates it…

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Automating steel modelling with Revit & Dynamo revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Automating steel modelling with Revit & Dynamo

When modelling structures such as portal frames there is currently no built-in macros to aid with this very typical structural frame. If you are using tools such as Robot or Advance Steel, then thi…

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Revit 2022.1 – What’s New revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2022.1 – What’s New

Autodesk recently released their customary mid release of Revit 2022 with a host of new and useful features for the masses. In this post we shall investigate some of the new and improved features f…

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Share and coordinate Autodesk Civil 3D surfaces with Revit via Autodesk Docs revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Share Autodesk Civil 3D surfaces with Revit via Autodesk Docs

In previous blog posts I have looked at a couple of ways of using Civil 3D surfaces in Revit projects, most of these processes do not use a dynamic link between the Civil 3D TIN surface and Revit. …

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Revit/Dynamo/Python Tutorial – Auto join concrete elements revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit/Dynamo/Python Tutorial – Auto join concrete elements

As many of you will appreciate, the joining of in-situ concrete elements is critical when modelling structures. This ensures that the volume of concrete is correct and makes the construction drawin…

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Revit 2022 rebar – Staggered laps revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2022 rebar – Staggered laps

A very effective quick tip for creating staggered laps in rebar sets with Revit 2022. You can first create a standard rebar range using the new two-point placement method. Next, select the rebar se…

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Dynamo integration in Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2022 revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Dynamo integration in Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2022

Many of you that regularly follow my blog will know that we have been able to access the Robot API through Revit for some time with Dynamo. Whilst this is very useful for Revit/Robot interoperabili…

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Rebar Detailing with Revit – BS8666:2020 revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Rebar Detailing with Revit – BS8666:2020

In January 2021, the British standard used to describe the scheduling, bending, and cutting of reinforcement bar was updated. The previous standard was BS8666:2005 and this forms the basis for the …

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Revit 2022 – What’s New: Platform and Structural tools revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2022 – What’s New: Platform and Structural tools

After the most unusual year that many of us have experienced, the new release of Autodesk Revit 2022 will hopefully be the dawn of a brighter year. In this review we will take a look at the new str…

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Revit Sheets, ISO19650 and Naviate revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit Sheets, ISO19650 and Naviate

When working with Revit and ISO19650 the naming requirements (information containers) are a concatenation of multiple fields such as the project reference, originator, level, zone etc. The temptati…

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Accelerate your Revit RC Detailing with the Naviate Rebar Extension revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Accelerate your Revit RC Detailing with the Naviate Rebar Extension

I am sure some of you are currently using Revit to produce 3D RC models and details. Those of you that are, will be gaining the benefits of working in a fully coordinated model with automated bar s…

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Revit 2021 Tutorials - Course Introduction youtu.be/UT04ORYoFx4 via @YouTube New FREE Revit 2021 Tutorials for structures. Here you will find 35 training videos! Enjoy
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Revit 2021 Tutorials - Course Introduction

In this introduction video you are introduced to the various traini...

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Revit 2021 Quick Reference Card revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Revit 2021 Quick Reference Card

Please find attached a very useful Symetri UK quick reference card for Revit 2021. Great when you have forgotten where your families are stored, where the ini file is located or perhaps where the I…

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Piling Automation with Revit and Dynamo revitstructureblog.wordpress…

Piling Automation with Revit and Dynamo

Whilst there are many tools on the market to renumber piles and provide a pile marking scheme, many of these tools rely on the piles being nested into pile caps. This is useful for most of the pile…

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