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.

Enhancements to Revit® families enable you to export all of the families in a project in order to add content to your libraries. You can also import and export family types from the family editor to create family types more easily.

Visualization enhancements provide 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.

Enhancements have been made to help you create and manage the structural analytical model, including greater control over the analytical model and better consistency with the structural physical model. Specific areas of improvement are:

• Better control of visibility/graphics
• The inclusion of analytical parameters in analytical model elements
• The addition of a surface to floor, slab, and wall analytical models
• The addition of the “enable analytical model” parameter to physical model elements
• Easier identification of linear analytical model end segments
• Improved full edit mode for analytical adjustments
• New model adjustment features allowing for editing via nodes and direct manipulation widgets
• The ability to adjust linear analytical models at each end with new projection and hosting behaviors
• Enhanced auto-detection for the preservation of physical element joins and attachments

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 with features that give you greater flexibility in documenting assemblies of model elements.

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.

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 to author an as-built building information model with more confidence and accuracy.

Enhancements have been made to help you more easily define and visualize concrete reinforcement in Revit Structure. New methods for managing the definition of reinforcement as well as controlling its placement have been added, including:

• New multi-planer reinforcement support
• Structural connection category improvements
• Support for hosting reinforcement in generic model families
• More accurate display of self-intersecting reinforcement bars
• Support for attaching stirrups beyond cover references
• Improvements to rebar bend dimension display

Revit Server helps project teams in different locations collaborate more easily on shared Revit® models across a wide-area network (WAN). Better 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.

Revit Structure is interoperable with Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® Revit® MEP software. Structural engineers and architects, as well as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, can use software based on the Revit® BIM platform and work more efficiently on the same shared database. Perform interference checking between architectural, structural, and MEP elements. For even greater coordination, receive electronic notifications about the design changes made by the rest of the design team.

With Revit Structure BIM software, worksharing distributes the power of the parametric building modeling environment across the project team. Multiple users can share the same intelligent building information model and save their work to one central file. Worksharing provides a comprehensive range of collaboration modes:

• Within a structural engineering firm
• Between engineers and drafters
• Within an architectural engineering firm
• Between engineers and architects and drafters working with them

Revit Structure automates the repetitive, manual drafting tasks required in conventional CAD systems. Cut sections and elevations and call out detail views more quickly. Reference sections, elevations, and details automatically in accordance with the sheet’s numbers. Bidirectional associativity means that any change in any view is propagated in related views, so drawings stay coordinated.

Revit Structure imports, exports, and links your data with industry-leading formats, including DWG™, DXF™, DGN, IFC, and CIS/2, so you can more easily work with data from consultants, clients, or contractors. Revit Structure supports the traditional AutoCAD workflow which means that structural modeling starts with DWG files provided by the architect using AutoCAD® or AutoCAD® Architecture software. Also, Revit Structure exports 3D models to AutoCAD Architecture, where you can query structural properties.

Revit Structure provides bidirectional associativity between models and views. Every 2D and 3D view, every drawing sheet, every detail, and every schedule is a direct presentation of information from the same underlying building database. Anytime you make changes, the application propagates those changes throughout the model and updates related plans, sections, elevations, and schedules. This key feature makes all the difference in the system’s ease of use and responsiveness, helping to reduce coordination errors and improve overall documentation quality.