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22 Click File menu ➤ Close.<br />

You can save the open file if you wish. In the next exercise, a new training file is provided.<br />

23 Proceed to the next exercise, Preparing the Analytical Model to be Calculated in Third Party<br />

Analysis Software on page 500.<br />

Preparing the Analytical Model to be Calculated in Third Party<br />

Analysis Software<br />

Revit Structure links to an analysis and design software, via an Application Programming Interface (API).<br />

Size changes to your model and geometric modifications to your model involving member deletion, member<br />

relocation, or member addition, that you confirm in the analysis software, are imported back into Revit<br />

Structure. All views, including structural plans, elevations, sections, and detail sheets are updated according<br />

to changes that you import into Revit Structure. In addition, some internal analysis software parameters are<br />

imported into Revit Structure.<br />

Export the model to analysis software<br />

1 Click Tools menu ➤ External Tools ➤ Send Model.<br />

NOTE The External Tools menu is only available once an approved 3rd party analysis software<br />

application has been installed. For more information, click Help ➤ Structural Analysis Partners.<br />

The application programming interface (API) starts. You can open the analysis software or write<br />

to an export file for later use. If you choose to have the API open the software and run your<br />

model, the API also returns you to your Revit Structure model and updates it.<br />

2 Proceed to the next tutorial, Exporting Revit Structure Files on page 501.<br />

500 | Chapter 14 Structural Analytical Modelling

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