Autodesk Revit

Revit is a more comprehensive planning products branch of technology from Autodesk for architects, building engineers and structural engineers. Revit is not based on AutoCAD, but contains its own, new graphics kernel. While the basic product from Autodesk, AutoCAD, not object-oriented works, Revit supports the new technology BIM (Building Information Modeling). Revit consists of Revit Structure for structural design in structural engineering and building construction, Revit Architecture for Building Design and Revit MEP for building.

The principle of Revit is to support both a 2D as well as 3D modeling of an object-oriented building model. When a change in the planning process is carried out, it is automatically executed throughout the project so that designs and documentation are always consistent, and complete.

Revit allows to exchange data via the industry-standard formats RVT, DWG, DXF, DWF. As an open system formats like IFC, gbXML and PDF are supported for the plan output.

On the German market Revit has been available since 2004. The solution for the structural design, Revit Structure, was published in July 2008. In Revit 2009, the AccuRender rendering engine was replaced by the mental ray rendering engine. Revit provides interfaces to Autodesk 3ds Max Design and Autodesk 3ds Max for the high-end visualization of projects.

History

In 1997, the Charles River was established software version 0.1 brought out in November 1999 by Revit. As the original developer of Revit apply Irwin Jungreis and Leonid Raiz. The company was converted in 2000 into Revit Technology Corporation, then in April 2000 released the 1.0 version. That same year, followed by versions 2.0 and 2.1. In 2001 came the versions 3.0, 3.1 and 4.0. In January of 2002, the version 4.1 followed before Autodesk beginning April 2002 took over the product. There followed a series of updates; by 2005 it had reached version 8.1. At this time, Revit Structure was introduced, the specially tuned for the structural design tools had ready. Therefore we introduced the terms " Revit Building " and " Revit Structure " for the branches of architecture and structural engineering. In April 2007, a basic name matching of construction-related products was performed at Autodesk. All products based on AutoCAD were named with "AutoCAD ... " (that is, until now known as " Architectural Desktop " program was called from now on "AutoCAD Architecture" ). All the products had Revit as a basis and elected to receive " Revit ... " as the name. The term " Revit Architecture 2008 " for the predominantly architectural use and " Revit Structure " It was introduced for the structural design.

Autodesk publishes a new version of its products. For the year of the versions, the " Fiscal Year" Autodesk is used. Wherefore he called that appeared in May 2008 Version " Revit Architecture 2009 ".

2011 added the Autodesk " Revit Story" with the product " Revit MEP 2012 ". Revit MEP is building, or TGA part that follows the same approaches its pioneering Revit Architecture and Revit Structure in principle.

With Revit 2013 version is available in respective software suites as a "one box". Autodesk bundles so that the entire " Revit Story" with the parts Architecture, Structure and MEP in a single software.

The name Revit is derived from the abbreviations of the words " Revise Instantly " from. This designation should have the ability of the program that incurred changes are immediately reflected in all views affected. If you change eg the position of the cut line in a floor plan, the geometry changes immediately independently in section; is changed in the interface window, the display in the corresponding layout adjusts automatically, etc. ..

In Revit collaboration tools for working in a team are already integrated. Here, a so-called central file are provided in the network on which the participants get assigned work areas. About the service Autodesk360 can also be accessed via cloud computing to the data. Objects in Revit are represented by so-called families. This store their data as parameter sets. Ever parameterized data possible, be provided in component families in order to use components flexibly and eg to adapt the dimensions of a copy. In German-speaking countries is by adding plug-ins as a subscription customer enlargement ROOF available. This extends the functionality of Revit to national characteristics such as Evaluation of the area in accordance with DIN 277