Key features of Revit

The evolving features, capabilities, and toolsets in Revit® serve every architecture, engineering, and construction discipline to work more productively in BIM (Building Information Modeling).

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 within the Revit unified project collaboration environment.

Schedules

Use tables to better define, filter, sort, and communicate information from the model.

Interoperability

Revit imports, exports, and links with commonly used CAD formats, including IFC4, Rhino, SketchUp, OBJ, and more.

Annotation

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

Global parameters

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

Developer tools and solutions

Extend Revit functionality with API access, third-party solutions, add-ins, and content on the Autodesk App Store.

Generative Design in Revit

Quickly produce design alternatives based on goals and constraints you define. Available exclusively to AEC Collection subscribers.

Visibility settings and overrides

Control visibility and appearance of elements in a view to hide, reveal, and highlight building elements. Use overrides to customize appearance.

3D massing for complex form-making

Create site-specific form, profile, and sketch studies within the Revit in-place massing environment and use loadable mass families to standardize and repeat geometry within a project.

Standard and custom family content

Load family content from the Autodesk cloud into a Revit project or create your own libraries of building products, mechanical components, and more.

Personalization and customization

Customize the Revit user interface to meet your work style or apply office standards, with custom keyboard shortcuts, ribbons, toolbars, and more.

What’s new in Revit

The latest release of Revit building design software provides better interoperability, improves efficiency and accuracy of document production, and delivers on many user-requested features.

New features in Revit 2022

Duplicate sheets

Accelerate documentation with the duplicate sheet dialog to reproduce title block and parameters, detailing, and views on sheets. (video: 1:27 min.)


Snap to middle of two points

Place components, sketch, and measure quickly and accurately in 2D and 3D views with new snap to midpoint functionality. (video: 1:42 min.)


Improved IFC performance

Link and export to IFC with the Open Design Alliance (ODA) software development kit, improving performance.


Dynamo for Revit 2.12

Dynamo for Revit is now easer to use, with user interface modernizations that let you program more intuitively, the new Preferences panel, and other upgrades.


Generative design for Revit 2022

Drive outcomes with new enhancements to generative design, more sample studies, export to CSV, better file handling, and upgrades for Dynamo.

Note: This feature is available only with a subscription to the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection.


Interoperability improvements

Connect form-making to documentation with improved Revit interoperability with tools like Rhino and FormIt Pro. (video: 1:20 min.)


Shared parameters in key schedules

Use shared parameters in key schedules to drive geometry and control visibility of model elements within Revit families. (video: 1.58 min.)


Improved rebar modeling, detailing 

Model faster, more accurately, and with greater precision when placing and manipulating rebar elements. (video: 2:14 min.)


Tapered walls

Model and modify wall profiles with greater control for sloped and tapered walls. (video: 1:07 min.)


Native PDF export

Share files easily with export and batch export of Revit views and sheets to 2D PDF files with user-defined naming rules. (video: 1:10 min.)


Improved documentation efficiency

Improvements to scheduling and annotation tools make it easier to capture and communicate design intent. (video: 2:58 min.)


More features of Revit

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.


AEC Collection only

Analysis with Insight

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


Architectural modeling

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


Point cloud tools

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


3D design visualization

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


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.