Autodesk Revit Architecture building design software works the way architects and designers think, so you can develop higher-quality, more accurate architectural designs. Built for Building Information Modeling (BIM), Autodesk Revit Architecture helps you capture and analyze concepts and maintain your vision through design, documentation, and construction. Make more informed decisions with information-rich models to support sustainable design, construction planning, and fabrication. Automatic updates keep your designs and documentation coordinated and more reliable.
 

Features:

Construction Modeling Tools
New modeling tools help you derive better construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate objects, such as wall layers and concrete pours, to more accurately represent construction methods. Prepare shop drawings for fabrication more easily with features that give you greater flexibility in documenting assemblies of model elements.
 

Point Cloud Tools
Revit® Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process, helping to accelerate renovation and retrofit projects. By visualizing point clouds directly within the Revit software environment, it’s easier than ever to author an as-built model with more confidence and accuracy.

Conceptual Energy Analysis Tools
Conceptual Energy Analysis tools support sustainable design decision-making during early design. Using cloud-based analysis tools, you can compare the estimated energy consumption and lifecycle costs of design alternatives within Revit Architecture software. Analysis results are presented in a highly-visual, graphical format for easy interpretation.

Revit Server
Revit® Server helps project teams in different locations to more easily collaborate on shared Revit models across a wide-area network (WAN). Maintain an integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that can be accessed from local servers. Built-in redundancy helps provide protection in case of WAN connectivity loss.

Worksharing Enhancements Worksharing enhancements help you better understand and collaborate on shared models across the project team. Gain more visibility into element ownership and status to better manage team workflows.

Performance Enhancements
Performance enhancements help deliver a smoother experience when working on Revit projects of any size. More multi-threaded operations and improvements to imported data management result in faster open and load times within a project.

Model Linking Enhancements
Model linking enhancements provide more flexibility in working within large projects by allowing you to tag a variety of elements within linked files. New to this release is the ability to tag rooms, areas, keynotes, beams, and beam systems.

Citrix Readiness
Revit now provides support for Citrix® XenApp™6, giving you more flexibility and options for working from remote locations using a local server.

Materials Appearance Libraries
Create your own materials appearance libraries to standardize materials across projects and improve collaboration within the project team. More easily apply finish materials to surfaces, regardless of the underlying physical materials, to generate more accurate quantity take-offs.

DWG Fidelity
Improvements to DWG™ export functionality allow you to map Revit categories and subcategories to layers in DWG files, giving you more control over layer naming. In addition, you can also map Revit lines, patterns, and fonts to their DWG equivalents.

Visualization Display Options
Visualization enhancements present you with more options for displaying your project. You now have the ability to display edges in realistic views and shadows in consistent colors mode. New semi-transparent views help provide clarity in viewing elements within projects.

3D Mouse Support
Revit now supports use of 3D mice from 3Dconnexion®, so you can gain more control in navigating your models.

Dimensions Customization
New dimensions enhancements enable you to customize the appearance of leaders when dimensions are pulled off of a dimension line. Dimensions can also be customized to better support documentation needs of users around the world.

Family Enhancements Enhancements to Revit families give you the ability to export out all families from a project for the purpose of creating libraries. You can also import and export family types from the family editor to create family types more easily.

Definitive Design

From conception to construction documentation, design projects within an intuitive environment.

Built for Building Information Modeling (BIM), Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software helps you capture and analyze your most innovative design concepts and maintain your vision through documentation. The information-rich models that the software provides support decision-making for sustainable design, clash detection, construction planning, and fabrication, while helping you work collaboratively with engineers, contractors, and
owners. All design changes along the way are automatically updated throughout your evolving design and documentation, making for more coordinated processes and reliable documentation.

Complete Projects, One Environment
Autodesk Revit Architecture software’s conceptual design features provide easy-to-use tools for freeform modeling and parametric design, enabling you to analyze designs from the earliest stages of development. Sketch freely, create 3D forms quickly, and manipulate forms interactively. Prepare your models for fabrication and construction with built-in tools for conception and clarification of complex forms. Autodesk Revit Architecture automatically builds a parametric framework around forms as you design, offering you greater levels of creative control, accuracy, and flexibility. Take your design from concept model all the way to construction documents, all within one intuitive environment.

Authoritative Decisions, Sooner
Autodesk Revit Architecture software supports early analysis of your building forms so your team can make better informed decisions earlier in your project. Use this capability to clarify areas and volumes, perform daylighting and energy analysis, and gain insight into manufacturing viability and early construction material takeoffs.

Functional Forms
The Building Maker feature in Autodesk Revit Architecture helps you transform your conceptual forms into fully functional building designs. Select and add faces to design walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. Extract important building information, including gross area per floor. Bring conceptual massing concepts from applications such as AutoCAD® software and Autodesk® Maya® software as well as AutoDesSys form•Z, McNeel Rhinoceros®, Google™ SketchUp®, or other ACIS®- or NURBS-based applications into Autodesk Revit Architecture as mass objects, and begin schematic design.

Coordinated, Accurate Design Information

Autodesk Revit Architecture software is built to work the way architects and designers think about buildings. Work naturally, design freely, and deliver efficiently.

Autodesk Revit Architecture generates every
schedule, drawing sheet, 2D view, and 3D
view from a single foundational database,
automatically coordinating changes as
your project develops and evolves.

Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Autodesk Revit Architecture, all model information is stored in a single, coordinated database. Revisions and alterations to information are automatically updated throughout the model, minimizing errors and omissions.

Schedules
Schedules provide another view of the comprehensive Autodesk Revit Architecture model. Changes to a schedule view are automatically reflected in all other views. Functionality includes associative split-schedule sections and selectable design elements via schedule views, formulas, and filtering.

Detailing
The extensive detail library and detailing tools provided within Autodesk Revit Architecture enable extensive presorting, easing alignment with the CSI format. Detail libraries can be created, shared, and tailored to better accommodate your office standards.

Parametric Components
Parametric components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Autodesk Revit Architecture. These components offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making, while providing the opportunity to adjust and express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use parametric components for elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.

Material Takeoff
Calculate detailed material quantities with Material Takeoff. Ideal for better calculation of material quantities on sustainable design projects and cost estimates, Material Takeoff helps smooth the material quantity tracking process. As projects evolve, the Autodesk Revit Architecture parametric change engine updates material takeoffs.

Interference Check
Use interference checking to scan your model for collisions between elements.

Task-Based User Interface
The Autodesk Revit Architecture user interface offers desktop organization through a large drawing window and access to the tools and commands you need. Tools are organized into a collection of tabs and panels to represent architectural workflows such as creation, annotation, or collaboration.

Better Designs, More Satisfied Clients

Deliver higher-quality designs and gain a competitive advantage through increased client satisfaction.

Design Visualization
Create and capture photorealistic design ideas and contextual environments to help you experience your project, even before it is built. Integrated mental ray® rendering software is easy to use and delivers high-quality output, faster render times, and a striking design presentation.

Collaboration
Worksharing tools help you to improve collaboration on projects containing linked files by giving you the ability to apply view filters, tag elements, and control the visibility of worksets in linked files.

Revit Server
Revit Server helps project teams in different locations more easily collaborate on shared Revit models across a wide-area network (WAN). Help maintain an integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that can be accessed from local servers. Built-in redundancy helps provide protection in case of WAN connectivity loss.

Performance
Enjoy a smoother experience when working on large projects. More multi-threaded operations result in faster project open and load times. Native 64-bit support helps improve performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.

Sustainable Design
Conceptual energy analysis tools* help you make every design more sustainable. Use cloud-based analysis tools to quickly compare the energy consumption and lifecycle costs of design alternatives right from within Autodesk Revit Architecture software. Analysis results are presented in a highly-visual, graphical format for easy interpretation. Export building information, including materials and room volumes, to gbXML (green building extensible markup language). Perform more in-depth energy analysis using Autodesk® Green Building Studio® web-based services*, and study building performance with Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis software. Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software can be used to conduct indoor lighting analysis in support of LEED® 8.1 certification.

BIM—Simply a Better Way of Working

Deliver projects faster, more economically, while minimizing environmental impact.

Built for BIM
Autodesk Revit Architecture is built for BIM. BIM is an integrated process built on coordinated, reliable information about a project from design through construction and into operations. By adopting BIM, architecture firms can use this consistent information throughout the process to design and document innovative projects, accurately visualize appearance for better communication, and simulate real-world performance for better understanding of cost, scheduling, and environmental impact.

The BIM advantage
BIM helps building professionals stay competitive in an increasingly complex business climate by giving them the ability to better predict the outcome of a building before it is built. Using BIM helps architects and designers to create more sustainable, accurate designs with fewer errors and less waste, helping to achieve higher profits and more satisfied clients. BIM also optimizes team collaboration, enabling architects to more clearly and reliably communicate design intent to engineers, contractors, fabricators, and owners.