Datasheet

Work in any view that makes sense, maintain the
ability to design throughout dierent design phases,
and quickly and easily make changes to major design
elements. Create comprehensive design proposals
in record time. See your ideas realized on the fly
with D views and instant shadows. You can even
make late-stage changes without worrying about
coordinating your plans, schedules, and construc-
tion documents.
Revit Building Maker
Access a better workflow for common conceptual
and schematic tasks. Easily create expressive forms
to produce an overall massing study. Import concep-
tual massing from applications such as Form-Z, Rhino,
Google™ Sketchup
®
, and AutoCAD
®
2008 software,
or other ACIS
®
or NURBS (nonuniform rational
B-spline) based applications. Turn them into mass
objects in Revit Architecture. Then select faces to
design walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. You
can even use tools to extract important information
such as gross area per floor.
Stacked Walls and Vertically Compound Walls
This wall type is ideal for walls of varying thickness
and vertical materiality. Use Revit Architecture
to stack dierent wall types and control them as
one entity.
Family Editor
A graphical editing mode for the creation of para-
metric components, the Family Editor enables easy
creation, customization, and direct loading of doors,
windows, annotation types, and virtually anything
else.
Works the Way You Think
Revit Groups
Revit Groups provide a modular design technique
ideal for building types comprising many rooms of
similar size, shape, or configuration, such as hospi-
tals, hotels, and apartment buildings. New workflow
enhancements include the ability to load an RVT
file as a group, save a group as an RVT, or change
a group to a linked file. Additional enhancements
include a new Group Edit Mode, which provides
for the creation of elements while editing a group,
numerous user interaction improvements, and the
ability to exclude elements on an instance basis to
accommodate special conditions.
Rooms
Add flexibility to your model by calculating precise
area and room volumes. Capabilities include the
consideration of rooms that extend through mul-
tiple floors. Easily identify and track rooms between
schedules and model views, accelerating analysis
and presentation. Gain added productivity when
rooms automatically update with design changes.
Sun Studies
Revit Architecture sun studies enable designers to
quickly analyze sun positions and solar eects while
informing and influencing design strategy. Choose a
specific date and time, or time frame, to generate a
still or animated sun study.
With Revit Architecture, you get back to what you love:
designing buildings, without having your software get
in the way.
Graphical Overrides
Graphic overrides provide an ability to modify the
graphic representation for a single element, thereby
oering additional options for how elements appear
in views. Graphic overrides also provide a visual
method for hiding or revealing single elements or
groups of elements by view. Settings are visually
retained from session to session, reducing setup
time in anticipation of plotting and printing.
Color Fills
Color fill enhancements provide better control over
the creation, management, and display of color fill
patterns. Because the software oers more options
for conveying design ideas in plan, Revit families
such as furniture, equipment, and floors no longer
hide behind color fills. Maximizing valuable drawing
real estate, the color fill legend reports only those
color fills represented in the active view.