Revit 2024 has just been released, and with it are a lot of exciting new additions and improvements to existing features. We’ve highlighted several of the latest features you’ll come across.

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• Site design – Cut geometry enhancement & Mass Cut excavations
• Site design – Solid Sub-divisions 
• Site design – Cut & Split Toposolids
• Site design – Graded Regions
• Site design – Show shape-edit control points
• Site design – Floor-based families and Slab Edges on Toposolids
• Site design – Exposed Toposolid API
• New path alignment options for free form rebar
• Stirrup orientation for aligned free form rebar
• MEP fabrication ductwork stiffener
• Pipe Wall thickness as a built-in parameter
• Elevation parameters in visibility filters
• Hide insulation with hosting duct and pipe
• Parameters sorting in type/instance properties
• Export ‘Family type’ parameter

Cloud data & interoperability

• Link coordination models from Autodesk Docs
• Manage links dialog for coordination models
• Access properties of coordination model objects
• Point snaps for coordination model objects
• Collaboration cache relocation for cloud models
• Link and Import PDF in Revit LT and Design Automation API
• Revit to Robot Link enhancements

Documentation efficiency

• Place multiple views and schedules on a sheet
• Move aligned to sheet enhancements
• Open sheet directly from drawing area
• Schedule revision clouds
• Align patterns on shaped-edited surfaces
• Bar bending details on reinforcement drawings
• Bar bending details in rebar schedules
• 2D element draw order in 3D families
• Resize all schedule rows
• Enable removal of unit symbol for fraction inches

Fresh from the Factory, Revit 2024 is rolling out globally! In this release, Autodesk has combined eagerly anticipated additions, like Site Tools for landscape designers, with highly requested enhancements from the community, like Dark Theme and a more modern user interface.

Here are three of the highlights from the new version:

Introducing Site Tools for Revit & Revit LT.

This new toolset supports the design and documentation of richly detailed landscapes. You can use Site Tools to:

• Collect and rationalize existing conditions data from CAD Imports, CSV point files, and more.
• Model your design intent freely and easily, with versatile site and massing tools for modeling topography.
• Populate schedules, sheets, and views and calculate material quantities. Cut, fill, join, and run phasing scenarios. Use the design-to-documentation engine of Revit to save time and improve design quality when modeling landscape and site conditions.

Save time in concrete detailing.

Structural engineers and rebar detailers have new capabilities for creating, scheduling, and documenting rebar. Use the new bar bending details to:

• Create reinforcement drawings and schedules with detailed fabrication instructions. With this new tool in Revit, when the model changes, the details adapt along with it.
• Add and customize rebar bending details so that your views and sheets respect your typical practice.
• Reduce errors and omissions in your document sets.

Evolve work together.

Link Coordination Model from Autodesk Docs into Revit makes it easier for project teams to sync and coordinate design deliverables. Keep project files light and teams on the same page.

• Link models and views from any of the 60+ formats supported by Docs and the Autodesk Construction Cloud directly into Revit.
• Underlay the coordination model as visual reference when designing in Revit.
• Reduce the need for interpretation when coordinating up-to-date design deliverables with partners and project teams.   

Autodesk has a track record of helping customers embrace technological transformations.   

First by enabling the shift from the drafting table to the computer with AutoCAD in 1982.  

Then with Revit in 2002, introducing modeling-based design and building information modeling (BIM).  

A few years ago, the value of BIM was extended by connecting architects and engineers to a shared Revit model in the cloud and to construction and operations with the Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), allowing all stakeholders to collaborate on shared information.   

But the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry continues to change at a rapid pace.  

Expanding urbanization is driving demand.  Complex projects are stressing timelines and budgets.  Talent shortages are straining teams that are already stretched.    

These challenges aren’t going away, so BIM as we know it must evolve to meet industry needs. Too much data gets lost and recreated between the BIM phases of plan, design, build and operate.   

Autodesk believes “connected data will help our customers overcome these challenges. But first we must unlock the power of your data: to make it easier for you to move data between stakeholders and connect workflows, build intelligent processes on top of data, maintain a single source of truth in the cloud, and to deliver what customers like Arco are asking for.”

“The architect’s workflow has evolved over hundreds of years.” said Richard Hogan, Project Lead & Architect at Arco. “Now we’re entering a world that is data rich. We must evolve our workflow to create better performing, more sustainable buildings that fit into our cities.” 

Investing today to transform tomorrow  

You may recall that Autodesk’s industry clouds at AU. Let’s walk through what’s next—and importantly, what it means for the software you already know and love, including Revit.   

Autodesk Forma will be the industry cloud for AECO. It will reimagine BIM by leveraging next generation technology to connect data, teams, and workflows and enable more collaborative concurrent ways of working.  

May 8 will introduce the launch and first set of capabilities of Autodesk Forma. We’re thrilled to be taking this leap forward and it’s just the beginning. 

Autodesk Forma will be the industry cloud that unifies workflows across teams that design, build, and operate built environments.

The first Forma offering will leverage Spacemaker’s powerful AI engine to deliver new conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics and automations. Autodesk Forma will empower planning and design teams to digitally deliver projects with outcomes in mind from day one–creating a solid foundation for all subsequent project phases.  

With bi-directional data exchange, you will be able to work fluidly between Revit and Forma, between initial planning and detailed design, between the cloud and the desktop, to improve the performance of your projects while you’re designing. Being able to work on the same cloud model across Revit and Forma will give architects the agility to work iteratively rather than sequentially. And that’s a big, big change.   

We’ll also continue to invest in Revit, as we have with today’s release. The new capabilities in Revit 2024 are critical to getting your work done today. And they set the stage for next month’s launch of Autodesk Forma and its first set of capabilities. 

The “huge promise” of a cloud-connected industry  

With your data, teams, and processes connected in the cloud, you can make better decisions earlier in projects. You can harness AI, machine learning, and the Internet of Things to speed processes, reduce errors, and predict and solve problems before they happen.  

Our customers like Hogan at Arco acknowledge this is a “big cultural change for the profession,” but the rewards of embracing data and the cloud, he says, are worth it.  

Fresh from the Factory, Revit 2024 is rolling out globally! In this release, Autodesk has combined eagerly anticipated additions, like Site Tools for landscape designers, with highly requested enhancements from the community, like Dark Theme and a more modern user interface.

Here are three of the highlights from the new version:

Introducing Site Tools for Revit & Revit LT.

This new toolset supports the design and documentation of richly detailed landscapes. You can use Site Tools to:

• Collect and rationalize existing conditions data from CAD Imports, CSV point files, and more.
• Model your design intent freely and easily, with versatile site and massing tools for modeling topography.
• Populate schedules, sheets, and views and calculate material quantities. Cut, fill, join, and run phasing scenarios. Use the design-to-documentation engine of Revit to save time and improve design quality when modeling landscape and site conditions.

Save time in concrete detailing.

Structural engineers and rebar detailers have new capabilities for creating, scheduling, and documenting rebar. Use the new bar bending details to:

• Create reinforcement drawings and schedules with detailed fabrication instructions. With this new tool in Revit, when the model changes, the details adapt along with it.
• Add and customize rebar bending details so that your views and sheets respect your typical practice.
• Reduce errors and omissions in your document sets.

Evolve work together.

Link Coordination Model from Autodesk Docs into Revit makes it easier for project teams to sync and coordinate design deliverables. Keep project files light and teams on the same page.

• Link models and views from any of the 60+ formats supported by Docs and the Autodesk Construction Cloud directly into Revit.
• Underlay the coordination model as visual reference when designing in Revit.
• Reduce the need for interpretation when coordinating up-to-date design deliverables with partners and project teams.   

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