Autodesk® Revit® Architecture building design software works the way architects and designers think, so you can develop higher-quality, more accurate architectural designs. Built for Building Information Modeling (BIM), Autodesk Revit Architecture helps you capture and analyze concepts and maintain your vision through design, documentation, and construction. Make more informed decisions with information-rich models to support sustainable design, construction planning, and fabrication. Automatic updates keep your designs and documentation coordinated and more reliable.
New modeling tools help you derive better construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate objects, such as wall layers and concrete pours, to more accurately represent construction methods. Prepare shop drawings for fabrication more easily with features that give you greater flexibility in documenting assemblies of model elements.
Revit® Point Cloud tools connect laser scans directly into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process, helping to accelerate renovation and retrofit projects. By visualizing point clouds directly within the Revit software environment, it’s easier than ever to author an as-built model with more confidence and accuracy.
Conceptual Energy Analysis tools support sustainable design decision-making during early design. Using cloud-based analysis tools, you can compare the estimated energy consumption and lifecycle costs of design alternatives within Revit Architecture software. Analysis results are presented in a highly-visual, graphical format for easy interpretation.
Revit® Server helps project teams in different locations to more easily collaborate on shared Revit models across a wide-area network (WAN). Maintain an integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that can be accessed from local servers. Built-in redundancy helps provide protection in case of WAN connectivity loss.
Worksharing enhancements help you better understand and collaborate on shared models across the project team. Gain more visibility into element ownership and status to better manage team workflows.
Performance enhancements help deliver a smoother experience when working on Revit projects of any size. More multi-threaded operations and improvements to imported data management result in faster open and load times within a project.
Model linking enhancements provide more flexibility in working within large projects by allowing you to tag a variety of elements within linked files. New to this release is the ability to tag rooms, areas, keynotes, beams, and beam systems.
Create your own materials appearance libraries to standardize materials across projects and improve collaboration within the project team. More easily apply finish materials to surfaces, regardless of the underlying physical materials, to generate more accurate quantity take-offs.
Improvements to DWG™ export functionality allow you to map Revit categories and subcategories to layers in DWG files, giving you more control over layer naming. In addition, you can also map Revit lines, patterns, and fonts to their DWG equivalents.
Visualization enhancements present you with more options for displaying your project. You now have the ability to display edges in realistic views and shadows in consistent colors mode. New semi-transparent views help provide clarity in viewing elements within projects.
New dimensions enhancements enable you to customize the appearance of leaders when dimensions are pulled off of a dimension line. Dimensions can also be customized to better support documentation needs of users around the world.
Enhancements to Revit families give you the ability to export out all families from a project for the purpose of creating libraries. You can also import and export family types from the family editor to create family types more easily.
Parametric Components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Autodesk Revit Architecture. They offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making as well as an opportunity to express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use Parametric Components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for the most elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.
Autodesk Revit Architecture software offers easy-to-use conceptual design tools that support your creative flow. Sketch freely, create free-form models more easily, and manipulate forms interactively. You can define forms and geometry as real building components for a smoother transition to design development and documentation. As you design, Autodesk Revit Architecture automatically builds a parametric framework around your forms, offering greater levels of control, accuracy, and flexibility. Take your design from concept model all the way to construction documents all in one environment.
Native 64-bit support helps improve performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.
Use the Material Takeoff tool to help calculate detailed material quantities and track material quantities in cost estimates. The parametric change engine helps support more accurate material takeoffs
Take advantage of the extensive detail library and detailing tools that are part of Autodesk Revit Architecture. Presorted to align with the CSI format, detail libraries can be tailored to accommodate your office standards. Create, manage, and share your own detail library.
Capture design ideas in a photorealistic state. With easy user interaction, high-quality output, and faster render times, the mental ray® rendering engine enables superior design presentation.
mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc.
Develop and study multiple simultaneous design alternatives to help make key design decisions. Present multiple schemes to your clients more easily. Substitute each option into the model for visualization, quantification, and other data analysis to better inform decision making.
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Autodesk Revit Architecture software, all model information is stored in one place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the model.
Schedules are just another view of the Autodesk Revit Architecture model. A change to a schedule view is automatically reflected in all other views. Functionality includes associative split-schedule sections and selectable design elements via schedule views, formulas, and filtering.
The Revit Building Maker feature provides a more seamless way to turn conceptual forms into functional designs. Select faces to generate walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. Use tools to extract important information about your building such as surface area or volume per floor. Conceptual forms may be created natively in Autodesk Revit Architecture or imported from applications such as AutoCAD®, form-Z, Rhino, Google® SketchUp®, or other ACIS- or NURBS-based applications into Autodesk Revit Architecture software as mass objects.
Autodesk Revit Architecture interoperability features enable you to work more efficiently with members of your extended project team. You can export your building model or site, complete with critical metadata, to AutoCAD® Civil 3D® civil engineering software and you can import accurate models from Autodesk® Inventor® 3D mechanical design software.
For 32-Bit Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012
Microsoft® Windows® 7 32-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition, Microsoft® Windows Vista® 32-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) Professional or Home edition*
For Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit or Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual core processor, 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
For Microsoft Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
4 GB RAM
5 GB free disk space
1,280 x 1,024 monitor with true color
Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics, 256 MB DirectX® 10-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics (find out more about recommended graphics hardware)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
Download or installation from DVD9
Internet connectivity for license registration
For 64-Bit Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition, Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 edition (SP2 or later)*
For Windows 7 64-bit or Windows Vista 64-bit: Intel® Core™ i5-2300 quad-core processor (2.8 GHz, 6 MB cache) or equivalent AMD® processor.
For Windows XP Professional x64: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
8 GB RAM
5 GB free disk space
1,680 x 1,050 monitor with true color
Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics; 256 MB DirectX 10-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics (find out more about recommended graphics hardware)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (or later)
Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
Download or installation from DVD9
Internet connectivity for license registration
Performance Recommendations for Large/Complex Models
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition
2 GB (or more) DirectX 10-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 (find out more about recommended graphics hardware)
Autodesk Revit Server 2012
Less than 100 Concurrent Users
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 64-bit, or Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 64-bit
Processor with 4 or more cores and at least 2.6 GHz (6 or more cores and 3 GHz for maximum performance)
Microsoft® Internet Information Server 7.0 (or later)
4 GB RAM (16 GB for maximum performance)
7,200 or more RPM hard drive (15,000 or more RPM for maximum performance)
VMware® Support
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Support (must be configured to use one virtual network adapter per virtual processor)
100 or More Concurrent Users
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64-bit
Processor with 4 or more cores and at least 2.6 GHz (6 or more cores and 3 GHz for maximum performance)
Microsoft Internet Information Server 7.0 (or later)
8 GB RAM (32 GB RAM for maximum performance)
10,000 or more RPM hard drive (high-speed RAID array for maximum performance)
VMware Support
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Support (must be configured to use one virtual network adapter per virtual processor)
Revit Architecture for Citrix** 2012
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), or Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later)
Citrix system with XenApp® 6.0, Citrix® License Manager, and Citrix® Profile Manager
Microsoft® Active Directory with support for roaming profiles
Dedicated Autodesk license server for session-specific licenses
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (or later)
Client computers should be bound to the network domain. Each client computer should install either the full or web online client plug-in.
Users should use their domain logins to access both the Citrix web console and the
*Learn more about using Autodesk Revit MEP software with Boot Camp®, part of Mac OS® X that enables you to install and run Microsoft Windows (and Windows-based applications) on a Mac® computer or with Parallels Desktop, a system utility available from Parallels, Inc. that allows you to run applications in each operating system without restarting your computer.
**Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 is a Citrix Ready™ Application. Disclaimer: The Citrix application is network-based and performance of Autodesk Citrix Ready Applications may vary with network performance. Autodesk Revit Structure software does not include the Citrix application, nor does Autodesk provide direct support for issues with the Citrix application. Users should contract Citrix directly with questions related to procurement and operation of the Citrix application.
Note: Autodesk tests and supports Revit releases using hardware environments similar to those summarized in this document. Alternative hardware installation environments or software package interactions may cause undesirable behaviors in an installation of Revit. While Autodesk will make a reasonable effort to reproduce customer issues brought to the attention of Product Support, it is impossible for Autodesk to reproduce every customer computing environment for testing or support purposes.
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