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| Revit® Architecture |
(Formerly known as Autodesk® Revit® Building and Autodesk® AutoCAD® Revit® Series—Building)
In Revit® Architecture software, every drawing sheet, every 2D and 3D view, and every schedule is a direct presentation of information from the same underlying building database. As the user works in familiar drawing and schedule views, Revit Architecture collects information about the building project and coordinates this information across all other representations of the project. |
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| 1. General Product Information |
| 1.1 What is Revit Architecture? |
| Revit technology is Autodesk’s platform for building information modeling. Built on the Revit® platform, Revit Architecture software is a complete, discipline-specific building design and documentation system supporting all phases of design and construction documentation. From conceptual studies through the most detailed construction drawings and schedules, Revit-based applications help provide immediate competitive advantage, deliver better coordination and quality, and can contribute to higher profitability fo architects and the rest of the building team. At the heart of the Revit platform is the Revit parametric change engine, which automatically coordinates changes made anywhere—in model views or drawing sheets, schedules, sections, plans…you name it. |
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| 1.2 How does Revit Architecture help with Sustainable Design? |
Revit Architecture offers a rich set of capabilities that support better sustainable design
decision making. For example:
• Calculating material quantities to support cost estimating and study design
analysis against LEED criteria is greatly simplified through the use of the material
takeoff feature.
• Revit Architecture sun studies enable designers to quickly analyze sun positions
and solar effects while informing the design process.
• Designers can also export building information, including materials and room
volumes, to green building extensible markup language (gbXML) to perform
energy analysis and study building performance.
• Using design options easily develop and evaluate multiple sustainable design
alternatives. Visualize, quantify and present any combination of schemes to
inform the decision making process.
Whether you’re considering one or several sustainable design options, through the
analysis of materials, quantities, energy use, and lighting in a virtual building information
model, designers can better create sustainable building performance in the real world. |
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| 1.3 What is building information modeling? |
| Building information modeling (BIM) is the creation and use of coordinated, internally consistent, computable information about a building project in design and construction. The ability to keep this information up-to-date and accessible in an integrated digital environment gives architects, engineers, builders, and owners a clear overall vision of their projects and contributes to the ability to make better decisions faster—helping raise the quality and increase the profitability of projects. |
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| 1.4 Are there any industry-specific applications built on the Revit platform? |
| Revit® Structure software is a fully integrated modeling, design, and documentation system for structural engineers and drafters that takes full advantage of Revit platform change management technology. Revit Structure offers building information modeling for structural engineering firms. Revit® MEP is the building information modeling solution for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering design and documentation. |
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| 2. Revit Architecture Features |
| 2.1 What are the important new features in Revit Architecture ? |
Revit Architecture helps communicate design proposals more quickly and clearly, offers better design insight through on-demand visualization and analysis, and provides a process that mirrors the real world of building. With its parametric change technology, you can make any change, anytime, anywhere, and Revit Architecture automatically coordinates that change everywhere in your project. Revit Architecture continues to deliver the best possible information for decision making by further enhancing existing functionality, and better leveraging performance and quality. Graphic display options and visibility control during design and documentation are key themes in Revit Architecture . In addition, increasing support for interoperability streamlines workflow with other Autodesk products and industry leading software applications. Here are a few of the key features in Revit Architecture :
Color Fills: Color Fill enhancements provide better control over the creation, management and display of color fill patterns. Because the software offers more options for conveying design ideas in plan, Revit families such as furniture, equipment, and floors no longer hide behind color fills. Maximizing valuable drawing real estate, the color fill legend reports only those color fills represented in the active view.
Revit Groups: Revit Groups, also known as repeating units, provide a modular design technique ideal for building types comprising of many rooms of similar size, shape, or configuration; such as, hospitals, hotels and apartment buildings. New workflow enhancements include the ability to load an RVT file as a group, save a group as an RVT, or change a group to a linked file. Additional enhancements include a new Group Edit Mode, which provides for the creation of elements while editing a group, numerous user interaction improvements, and the ability to exclude elements on an instance basis to accommodate special conditions. |
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| 3.REVIT ARCHITECTURE/AUTOCAD REVIT ARCHITECTURE SUITE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Dependent Views: Addressing the needs of firms managing large projects, dependent views provide a robust mechanism for segmenting projects across multiple sheet views.Coordination across sheets is automatically maintained between parent and dependant views helping to ensure model fidelity. All building information, including annotations, is kept accurate and up-to-date throughout the design process. |
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