Features

Key Features

The evolving features and multi-discipline toolsets in Revit® can help every architecture, engineering, and construction professional do their best work as individuals and in teams.
Parametric components

Place walls, doors, and windows in an open, graphical, and parameter-rich system for design and form-making.

Worksharing

Save, sync, review, and update work to a centrally shared model in the Revit project collaboration environment.

Global parameters

Embed design intent with parameters that work with radial and diameter dimensions and equality constraints. 

Interoperability

Revit imports, exports, and links with commonly used BIM and CAD file formats, including IFC, 3DM, SKP, OBJ, and more.

Developer tools and solutions

Extend Revit functionality with Dynamo, API access, developer solutions, and BIM content on the Autodesk App Store.

Visibility settings and overrides

Control visibility by hiding, revealing, and highlighting building elements. Use overrides to customize appearance.

Annotation

Communicate design intent effectively with tools for tagging, dimensioning, and illustrating in 2D and 3D.

Personalization and customization

Customize the user interface to fit, with configurable keyboard shortcuts, ribbons, and toolbars. 

Schedules

Use tables to better capture, filter, sort, display, and share project data.

Twinmotion for Revit

Launch Twinmotion directly from Revit. Sync design data & enter the creator environment to bring your design to life as photo-realistic stills, scenes & animations.

Generative Design in Revit

Evaluate and compare design alternatives at scale with Generative Design in Revit. Available exclusively to AEC Collection subscribers.

Standard and custom family content

Load content from the Autodesk cloud into a Revit project or create your own libraries of building components.

Architectural Design

Conceptual design tools

Articulate form in the Revit massing environment with freeform tools for profiling and massing, and refine geometry parametrically in the project environment.

Analysis with Insight (AEC Collection)

Use advanced simulation engines and building performance data integrated in Revit to assess daylighting, whole building energy, heating & cooling loads, and more.

Architectural modeling

Add architectural elements to the building model, including walls, doors, & windows. Define custom components & families to meet any modeling need & level of detail.

3D design visualization

Explore, validate, and communicate design decisions visually. Revit renders with high quality and precision through the Autodesk Raytracer rendering engine.

Point cloud tools

Use scanning tools to capture existing and as-built conditions and import into Revit as point clouds.

Multistory stairs

Quickly create and modify multistory buildings by connecting stairs to the levels in your project.

Cloud rendering

Produce photorealistic visualizations without tying up your desktop or using special rendering hardware.

Structural Engineering & Fabrication

Analytically driven modeling

Use structural analysis tools to assess & adapt design intent as the model evolves. Automate analytical representation, run multiple analyses from one BIM model, schedule data for documentation, and assure quality control of structural design.

Reinforcement detailing

Create 3D reinforcement designs for cast-in-place and precast concrete structures. Produce reinforcement shop drawing documentation with rebar schedules.

Structural steel modeling

Model connections with a higher level of detail using a variety of parametric steel connections in Revit or by creating your own custom steel connections.

Linking with steel fabrication

Interoperability between Revit and Advance Steel helps provide a seamless BIM workflow from steel design to fabrication.

Dynamo for structural engineering

Dynamo gives structural engineers, designers, and detailers tools to build structures with minimal energy and make their own design tools.

Bidirectional linking with analysis

Integrate analysis results into the BIM process and work in an iterative design workflow.

MEP Engineering & Fabrication

Electrical preliminary load analysis

Engineers & designers can now leverage an architect’s PDF, DWG or Revit geometry to perform preliminary load calculations prior to modeling electrical equipment.

MEP Systems Analysis

Systems Analysis optimizes your HVAC systems design and modeling, letting you make data-driven design decisions.

Electrical design and documentation

Design, model, and document electrical systems. Keep track of electrical loads throughout the distribution system.

Plumbing design and documentation

Create sanitary plumbing systems with sloped piping and layout piping systems to design and document intent.

MEP fabrication detailing

Create fabrication-ready models in Revit. You can model and coordinate MEP LOD 400 components.

HVAC design and documentation

Design complex duct and pipe systems to express intent, and model duct and pipe systems with mechanical design content.

Insight integration

Insight lets you optimize building performance with centralized access to performance data and advanced analysis engines.

Fabrication service conversion

Use the Design to Fabrication tool to convert design-level model elements to construction level-of-detail elements.

Fabrication documentation

Document model layout more effectively. Document, schedule, and tag fabrication elements.

Construction

Construction modeling

Derive construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate wall layers and concrete pours and prepare shop drawings for fabrication.

Navisworks interoperability

Open a Navisworks coordination model directly in Revit to coordinate your design with the work of teams that use different software.

Import/export 2D sheets

Bring AutoCAD files in or out of Revit, and prepare sheet sets for export to fabricators, subcontractors, or other project stakeholders in the format they need.

Constructability details

Augment design-intent models with the detail necessary to meet the requirements of construction teams.

Computational Design & Dev Tools

Generative design

AEC COLLECTION ONLY
Quickly produce design alternatives based on goals and constraints you define.

Dynamo for Revit

Automate and optimize BIM workflows with an open-source graphical programming interface that installs with Revit.

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