Key features of Autodesk Revit

The evolving features and multi-discipline toolsets in Revit® can help every architecture, engineering and construction professional do their best work as individuals and in teams.

Parametric components

Place walls, doors, and windows in an open, grapical, parameter-rich system for design and form-making.

Worksharing

Save, sync, review and update work to a centrally shared model in the Revit project collaboration environment.

Schedules

Use tables to better capture, filter, sort, display and share project data.

Interoperability

Revit imports, exports, and links with commonly used BIM and CAD file formats, including IFC, 3DM, SKP, OBJ and more.

Annotation

Communicate design intent effectively with tools for tagging, dimensioning and illustrating 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 Dynamo, API access, developer solutions and BIM content on the Autodesk App Store.

Generative design in Revit

Evaluate and compare design alternatives at scale with Generative Design in Revit. Available exclusively to AEC Collection subscribers.

Visibility settings and overrides

Control visibility by hiding, revealing and highlighting building elements. Use overrides to customise appearance.

Twinmotion for Revit

Launch Twinmotion directly from Revit. Sync design data and immerse yourself in the intuitive creator environment to bring your design to life as photo-realistic stills, scenes and animations.

Standard and custom family content

Load content from the Autodesk cloud into a Revit project or create your own libraries of building components.

Personalisation and customisation

Customise the user interface to fit, with configurable keyboard shortcuts, ribbons and toolbars. 

Multi-discipline toolsets in 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.

Analysis with Insight

AEC COLLECTION ONLY
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 modelling 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 visualisation

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

Multistorey stairs

Quickly create and modify multi-storey buildings by connecting stairs to the levels in your project.

Cloud rendering

Produce photorealistic visualisations without tying up your desktop or using special rendering hardware.

Structural engineering and fabrication

NEW

Analytically driven modelling

Leverage accurate and versatile structural analysis tools to assess and adapt design intent as the BIM model develops. Automate analytical representation, run multiple analyses from a single BIM model, schedule data for documentation and assure quality control of structural design. New in Revit 2023.

Reinforcement detailing

Create 3D reinforcement designs for cast-in-place and precast concrete structures. Produce reinforcement shop drawing documentation with rebar schedules.

Structural steel modelling

Model connexions with a higher level of detail using a variety of parametric steel connections in Revit or by creating your own custom steel connections.

Bidirectional linking with analysis

Integrate analysis results into the BIM process and work in an iterative design workflow.

Dynamo for structural engineering

Dynamo gives structural engineers, designers and detailers tools to build structures with minimal energy and make their own design tools.

Linking with steel fabrication

Interoperability between Revit and Advance Steel helps provide a seamless BIM workflow from steel design to fabrication.

MEP engineering and fabrication

NEW

Electrical preliminary load analysis

Electrical engineers and designers working in Revit can now leverage an architect’s PDF, DWG or Revit geometry to perform preliminary load calculations earlier in the design process – prior to modelling electrical equipment.

MEP Systems Analysis

Systems Analysis optimises your HVAC systems design and modelling, letting you make data-driven design decisions.

HVAC design and documentation

Design complex duct and pipe systems to express intent, and model duct and pipe systems with mechanical design content.

Electrical design and documentation

Design, model and document electrical systems. Keep track of electrical loads throughout the distribution system.

Plumbing design and documentation

Create sanitary plumbing systems with sloped piping and layout piping systems to design and document intent.

MEP fabrication detailing

Create fabrication-ready models in Revit. You can model and coordinate MEP LOD 400 components.

Insight integration

Insight lets you optimise building performance with centralised access to performance data and advanced analysis engines.

Fabrication service conversion

Use the Design to Fabrication tool to convert design-level model elements to construction level-of-detail elements.

Fabrication documentation

Document model layout more effectively. Document, schedule and tag fabrication elements.

Construction

Construction modelling

Derive construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate wall layers and concrete pours and prepare shop drawings for fabrication.

Navisworks interoperability

Open a Navisworks coordination model directly in Revit to coordinate your design with the work of teams that use different software.

Import/export 2D sheets

Bring AutoCAD files in or out of Revit and prepare sheet sets for export to fabricators, subcontractors or other project stakeholders in the format they need.

Constructability details

Augment design-intent models with the detail necessary to meet the requirements of construction teams.

Computational design and developer tools

Generative design

AEC COLLECTION ONLY
Quickly produce design alternatives based on goals and constraints you define. Available exclusively to AEC Collection subscribers. (video: 2:46 min.)

Dynamo for Revit

Automate and optimise BIM workflows with an open-source graphical programming interface that is installed with Revit.