Product guide · Beta

HuskyBIM for Robot Structural Analysis

HuskyBIM for Robot Structural Analysis connects Claude Desktop to Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis through the Robot Object Model. With 270 tools you build and edit structures, define loads and Eurocode combinations, calculate, read forces, deflections and reactions, verify and design steel members against EN 1993 with your National Annex, and document the results — in plain language, with Claude seeing the model through screenshots.

Beta, delivered as a Claude Desktop extension (.mcpb). No installer — a thin companion resolves Robot's API from your installation at runtime. Download the extension from your account page, open it in Claude Desktop, enter your token, and keep Robot running with a project open. Tested on Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2027; other versions are untested.

Requirements

• Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2027 — running on Windows (a project open or created from Claude)
• Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit)
• Claude Desktop — download at claude.ai/download
• Free HuskyBIM account — sign up

Installation

Download the extension

Install in Claude Desktop

Open Claude Desktop. Go to Settings → Extensions and click Install extension. Select the downloaded .mcpb file, or drag and drop it onto the Extensions panel.

Enter your extension token

In the HuskyBIM for Robot Structural Analysis extension settings, enter your extension token. Find your token at huskybim.com/account under Extension Token.

Open Robot and start

Start Robot Structural Analysis and open or create a project (Claude can do both). Return to Claude Desktop — the 270 HuskyBIM for Robot Structural Analysis tools are active. Ask for "check the connection to Robot" first.

Project type matters. Robot's Frame 3D and Frame 2D project types allow bars only — Robot refuses to calculate panels (slabs, walls) in them. Ask Claude for a Shell project when you need both bars and panels; the tools tell you when a panel would not be allowed.

What you can do

HuskyBIM for Robot Structural Analysis provides 270 tools spanning the analysis workflow — from geometry and loads to calculation, results, code checks and documentation. Inputs and results use engineering units: kN, kN·m, kN/m, kN/m², m, mm, MPa.

Model & geometry

robot_build_frame — a multi-bay, multi-storey frame from spans, heights and sections

robot_create_bar — bars between nodes or points, with catalogue sections

robot_create_panel — slabs and walls from contour points, with openings

robot_set_support — fixed, pinned, roller or elastic supports

robot_set_bar_release — pinned ends, releases per DOF

robot_section_search — IPE, HEA, HEB, RHS… from Robot's databases

robot_create_section — parametric rectangular, box, I, tube sections

robot_import_model_json — bring a Revit analytical model into Robot

Loads & combinations

robot_create_case — cases by nature: permanent, live, wind, snow…

robot_add_load — self-weight, node, uniform, point, trapezoidal, panel loads

robot_generate_eurocode_combinations — EN 1990 ULS/SLS sets with the DK National Annex (6.10a/b, KFI, ψ) or EN values — all factors declared and overridable

robot_code_combinations_auto — Robot's own code-combination engine

robot_snow_wind_generate — Robot's snow/wind generator on a frame envelope

robot_load_summary — what is applied, per case

Analysis & results

robot_calculate — run the analysis, with status and audit on failure

robot_bar_forces_envelope — design forces: min/max per bar with governing case

robot_bar_deflections — deflections and L/x ratios against a limit

robot_reactions — support reactions and sums

robot_extreme — the global maximum of any result, and where it is

robot_panel_results — plate moments, membrane forces, stresses per node

robot_modal_results — frequencies and mass participation

robot_buckling_results — critical coefficients, buckling lengths

Steel design (EN 1993)

robot_steel_verify — utilisation ratio, governing combination, SLS checks, OK/FAIL per member

robot_steel_design — lightest passing section per family, with optimisation

robot_apply_designed_sections — write the designed sections to the model

robot_design_detailed_results — the full code check: classes, χ, Mcr, resistances

robot_create_member_type — buckling lengths, sway, deflection limits

robot_eurocode_factors — γM0, γM1, γM2 as used by the design module

Seeing the model, checking, documenting

robot_show_diagram — moment/shear/deformation diagrams as an image Claude sees

robot_show_map — finite-element result maps on panels

robot_screenshot — the Robot window, any projection

robot_model_audit — duplicate nodes, missing sections, supports, disconnected parts — with a verdict

robot_equilibrium_check — applied load vs reactions

robot_quantities — steel tonnage by section, concrete by thickness

robot_report_save — tables and screen captures as a calculation note (RTF/HTML)

robot_com_get — read anything in the Robot Object Model that has no dedicated tool

…and more — 270 tools in total, all driven in plain language.

Example prompts

Build and load

"Build a two-storey, two-bay steel frame, 6 m bays, 4 m storeys, HEA 200 columns and IPE 300 beams in S 355, fixed at the base. Add self-weight, 10 kN/m live load on the beams and 5 kN wind at the joints."

Combine and calculate

"Generate the Eurocode combinations for consequence class CC2 with the Danish annex, calculate, and show me the bending moment diagram for the governing ULS combination."

Verify and design

"Set the beams as beams and the columns as columns, verify the steel members, and if any fail, design the beams from the IPE family and apply the result."

Check and document

"Audit the model, check equilibrium for the dead load, and save a calculation note with the reactions table."

Troubleshooting

Tools report "Robot is not running"

Start Robot Structural Analysis (or ask Claude to launch it) and open or create a project. The companion attaches to the running Robot on the same PC.

Calculation fails with "elements not allowed for the selected structure type"

The project type is bars-only (Frame 3D/2D) but the model contains panels. Create the project as Shell (or Plate) instead.

A tool times out and Robot shows a question

Robot asked something that needs a decision (e.g. save changes). Answer it in Robot — the tools show recent dialogs with robot_dialog_log. Purely informational messages are dismissed automatically.

License error on first call

Check that your token is entered correctly in the extension settings. Get it free at huskybim.com/account.