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ifically built for Building Information Modelling (BIM), Revit empowers construction and design professionals to bring ideas from concept to construction with a coordinated and consistent model based approach. Revit Software delivers BIM tools for architectural design, MEP Engineering, Structural engineering and construction, enabling coordination between various disciplines.
All software tools and programs always have requests to improve to bridge efficiency or technical gaps. With Revit 2015, Autodesk took note on all the feedbacks and acted on those, making Revit a version the users will be pleased to have. Following are some of the significant changes Autodesk took to reform Revit 2015 for Architecture.
Visualization Improvements
Sketchy Lines- This is a most awaited feature of Revit 2015. Revit can now, in all views, replicate the effect of hand sketching. Users will be able to set the jitter and extension controls with simple clicks to soften the appearance of the Revit Model for situations where a subtler image is needed.
Anti-Aliasing- Revit 2015 has been improved to remove the jagged lines you always hated. The new Revit 2015 allows all the views to use this feature and this works in an amazing manner.
Family Parameter Improvement
Tooltips- Many times Rivet experts create complex families and define parameters that control these families. Unfortunately, most Revit users are not supervised by their BIM Managers helping them understand how or what each parameter is doing. With Revit 2015, users are now provided with notes on each parameter defining how it works and how it should be used.
Scheduling Improvements- Schedulers in Revit are powerful tools to manage, display and quantify Building Information with quality control elements in the model. Now users can directly import images into Revit Content using Image Type (Type Parameter) & Image (Instance Parameter). These parameters are useful for either loadable families like furniture, light fixtures etc. or system families such as floors, walls, ceilings, etc.
Usability Improvements
Multiple Trim/ Extend Selection-In the previous versions of Revit tool, made users select individual items to extend or trim while using Trim/ Extend tool. Revit 2015 now allows users to select all the elements using a window that needs to be extended.
With the previous versions of Revit, the task of drawing revision cloud was a work full of hassle with all the clicking required to place each arc segment. Revit 2015, now allows users to use the basic drawing tools, including lines, arcs, eclipses and rectangles to quickly define boundaries for the Revision Cloud.
Tag Behavior- Users began to rely heavily on tagging elements as Revit experienced improvements in the past. The previous versions of Revit had a tedious method to tag elements, catering to that, Revit 2015 has introduced tag leaders that behave like text. The angled segment adjusts automatically while moving them in views to the tag’s placement.
These are some of the new improved feature sets that are incorporated in Revit 2015 keeping in mind the reviews and feedbacks and requests from the active Revit users. Hopefully these changes will greatly impact all Revit users making their workflow better.