Physical Materials for Building Performance Analysis
Physical materials improve efficiency of BIM-based building performance workflows by assigning thermal and structural properties to the building envelope. Construction thermal value defined within Revit building elements can now be exported as gbXML for downstream building performance analysis applications.

Revit Server Enhancements
Revit Server enhancements give you more control over managing central Revit models. Local accelerators can now connect to multiple hosts, allowing you to create a distributed Revit Server network. Autodesk® Vault Collaboration AEC workflow has also been improved.

Visualization Enhancements
Autodesk Revit and Revit Architecture software offer a variety of visualization enhancements to give you more control over the appearance of your project within the software. A new Raytracing feature offers interactive real-time rendering; it also enables you to render Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC) in viewport. Ghost surface and transparency overrides can now be customized with each building element. Preview RPC in the realistic visual style, as well as enhanced background options for creating compelling presentation graphics.

Interoperability Enhancements
Revit offers the ability to import and export drawings to and from Bentley Microstation V7 and V8 file format, as well as improved export to DWF™ and DWG™ formats. This enables more dependable and configurable workflow and deliverables.

Enhanced Industry Foundation Class (IFC) Support
BuildingSMART International Industry Foundation Class (IFC) version 2x3 is now certified for Revit. With the certification, Revit complies with global industry standards, including GSA standards. Open source Revit IFC exporter has been enhanced to support emerging standards. You can propose changes to the IFC export to support regional requirements—this allows you to share information more effectively with third-party applications to support design workflows.

Revit Exchange App Store
The Revit Exchange App Store is a web platform that allows you to easily gain access to add-ins and other content in the Revit platform.

Dimension Enhancements
Revit offers enhancements to dimensioning capabilities. A new diameter dimension tool enables an individual segment in a multi-segment dimension chain to be selected and deleted. In addition, dimension instances can now display the segment values, equality text, or the equality formula string.

Autodesk 360 Integration
Revit makes it easier for Autodesk Subscription customers to gain access to integrated Autodesk 360 features, including rendering and energy analysis. Send your designs to the cloud for faster, higher quality rendering and analysis without disrupting your workflow.

Stairs Tools
In Autodesk Revit and Revit Architecture, new component-based stairs allow more flexibility and add capabilities for modeling and documenting stair designs. Stair runs, landings, and support components can now be modified independently. Annotation and representation of stairs has been improved based on industry standards.

Railing Enhancements
In Revit and Revit Architecture software, railing enhancements enable you to create railings more accurately. New railing systems tools help you create transitions and extensions much more easily. Top rails and handrails can be edited and modified as individual elements enabling you to control their appearance.

Construction Modeling Enhancements: Parts
Further enhancements to the parts capabilities improve insight to constructability of building elements. You can now merge, exclude, and restore parts, as well as divide parts with gap offset. Objects can be split and manipulated with linked models, enabling more accurate modeling with multi-disciplinary design models.

Construction Modeling Enhancements: Assemblies
In Autodesk Revit and Revit Architecture, powerful assemblies modeling capabilities have been enhanced, enabling you to place assemblies on a regular project sheet, as well as transfer assembly views with ease when the original parent assembly needs to be deleted. In addition, assemblies can now be exported to Industry Foundation Class (IFC).

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

Citrix Readiness & 64 bit Support
Revit features support for Citrix® XenApp™6, giving you more flexibility and options for working from remote locations using a local server. Revit also provides native 64-bit support, helping improve performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.

Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Revit, all model information is stored in 1 place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the Revit model.

Revit Server
Revit Server helps project teams in different locations to more easily collaborate on shared Revit models across a wide-area network (WAN). This Revit feature helps you maintain an integrated collection of central Revit 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
Worksharing distributes the power of the parametric building modeling environment across the project team. Multiple users can share the same intelligent building information model and save their work to a central file.

Vault Integration
Autodesk Vault Collaboration AEC software is designed to work with Revit. This integration helps streamline data management associated with architecture, engineering, and multidiscipline projects—from planning through design and construction. It can help save time and improve data accuracy. Now you won't even know you’re doing data management and can focus on the project, not the data.

Conceptual Design Tools
Autodesk Revit and Revit Architecture software offer easy-to-use conceptual design tools that support your creative flow. Sketch freely, create free-form models more easily, and manipulate forms interactively. You can define forms and geometry as real building components for a smoother transition to design development and documentation. As you design, Revit automatically builds a parametric framework around your forms, offering greater levels of control, accuracy, and flexibility. Take your architectural design from concept model all the way to construction documents all in one environment.

Revit Building Maker
The Revit Building Maker feature provides a more seamless way to turn conceptual forms into functional designs. Select faces to generate walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. Use tools to extract important information about your building such as surface area or volume per floor. Conceptual forms may be created natively in Revit or imported from applications such as AutoCAD®, form-Z, Rhino, Google® SketchUp®, or other ACIS- or NURBS-based applications into Revit software as mass objects.

Design Visualization
Capture design ideas in a photorealistic state. With easy user interaction, high-quality output, and faster render times, the mental ray®* rendering engine enables superior design presentation.

Autodesk 360 Energy Analysis for Revit
Autodesk 360 Energy Analysis tools in Autodesk Revit and Revit Architecture support sustainable design decision-making early in the design process. Using cloud-based analysis tools, powered by Autodesk Green Building Studio®, you can compare the estimated energy consumption and lifecycle costs of design alternatives within Revit. Analysis results are presented in a highly-visual, graphical format for easy interpretation.

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

Construction Modeling
Construction modeling tools in Autodesk Revit and Revit Architure software 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.

Interoperability
Autodesk Revit and Revit Architecture software offer interoperability features, enabling you to work more efficiently with members of your extended project team. You can export your building model or site, complete with critical metadata, to AutoCAD Civil 3D civil engineering software and you can import accurate models from Autodesk Inventor 3D mechanical design software.

Material Takeoff
Material Takeoff is a Revit tool that helps calculate detailed material quantities and track material quantities in cost estimates. The parametric change engine helps support more accurate material takeoffs.

Point Cloud Tools
Revit Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the 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.

DWG, DWF, DXF & DGN Support
Revit imports, exports, and links your data with industry-leading formats, including DWG™, DXF™, DGN, and IFC, so you can more easily work with data from consultan