Autodesk Revit

What's new in this version:

Autodesk Revit 2025
- Change log not available for this version


Autodesk Revit 2024
- Resolved an issue which may make Revit 2024 unresponsive after starting Revit with a new user account.
- Removed Extensible Storage Schemas from sample model and multi-discipline template files.


Autodesk Revit 2023
Go-to modeling and documentation tools are expanded and fine-tuned:
- Like last year’s release, 2023 is packed with improvements that target everyday design to documentation workflows. We’re smoothing edges on tools you’re already familiar with, so you see immediate benefits in your work. Filter by sheet in schedules, for one, is a solid addition for ensuring the right data winds up in your documentation sets. And schedules continue to get built out, with conditional formatting added to key schedules for families and types, an enhancement sourced from the Revit community. You’ll also find new features to control the display and tagging of displaced elements, bringing more clarity to complex annotations. View filters, more cuttable categories, and a new Measure in 3D tool are in Revit 2023 and mark the well-rounded advancement of Revit as a professional-grade, design-to-documentation workhorse.

More flexibility and control for structural engineers with revamped analytical modeling:
- More speed, the versatility you need, and quality control your clients will appreciate drive a shift toward a new analytical modeling workflow for structural engineers. Model in context in 2D and 3D views to define design intent autonomously from the physical model, or start with a parametric, “analysis-first” approach to develop the analytical model from the engineering requirements for buildings, roofing structures, pavilions, stairs, and beyond. With more automation for your steel connection libraries and many improvements for rebar, including adaptive placement and better visualization, Revit 2023 is a more complete toolset for the structural engineer and detailer.

Plan-based load analysis for electrical engineers is a time saver in a project’s early stages:
- A new electrical analysis workflow introduced in Revit 2023 is designed to use linked DWGs, PDFs, or Revit models as the basis for load takeoffs within Revit.  These load takeoffs, along with new capabilities to conceptually define electrical system elements, allow you to determine preliminary building load and load on main equipment components directly within the Revit environment.

Finer data fidelity, from form-making to documentation, with 3D Sketch in Revit and FormIt Pro:
- The FormIt Pro to Revit 3D Sketch workflow connects free-hand and computational form-making in FormIt Pro to the brass tacks of design development and documentation in Revit. Save on modeling time and rework and leverage early-stage analysis to assess and seamlessly transition design concepts into design deliverables. Also for early-stage design, Autodesk is looking for your feedback on a new Spacemaker to Revit add-in, now available in beta for European subscribers and with Spacemaker trials. Keep scrolling for more details.

BIM data unleashed, with Revit 2023 and Autodesk Docs:
- New features in Autodesk Docs expose Revit data to new frontiers in collaboration, interoperability, and automation. Revit 2023 showcases new ways to manage and share data, with Data Exchanges in Autodesk Docs. Two workflows debut with Revit 2023: an architecture to fabrication workflow between Revit and Inventor, and coming soon, a Revit to Microsoft Power Automate connection that brings design data to business process automation within the Microsoft ecosystem of applications. These new workflows, along with the introduction of the Revit Parameter Service in technology preview, pave the way to more effective, timely, and secure data management with the AEC Collection.

Check out a fresh look and feel for Generative Design, Dynamo Player, and Dynamo 2.13:
- A visual refresh drives consistency across Generative Design and Dynamo Player, intended to make both new and experienced computational designers more successful. Interface modernizations for Generative Design and Dynamo Player include sliders, numeric entry boxes, more in-menu descriptions, and easier to find product help and support. For Dynamo 2.13, updated details abound, including upgrades for Groups, scroll-over actions for Wires, and the ability to pin, watch, and organize nodes and graphs.


Autodesk Revit 2022.2
Interoperability improvements:
- Connect form making to documentation with improved Revit interoperability for tools like Rhino and FormIt Pro

Shared parameters in key schedules:
- Use shared parameters in key schedules to drive geometry and control visibility of model elements within Revit families

Improved rebar modeling, detailing:
- Model faster, more accurately, and with greater precision when placing and manipulating rebar elements

Tapered walls:
- Model and modify wall profiles with greater control for sloped and tapered walls

Native PDF export:
- Share files easily with export and batch export of Revit views and sheets to 2D PDF files with user-defined naming rules

Improved documentation efficiency:
- Improvements to scheduling and annotation tools make it easier to capture and communicate design intent

Dynamo for Revit 2.10:
- Latest release supports Python 3, introduces Node AutoComplete, improves node performance, and includes new training resources

Generative design in Revit 2022:
- Enhancements include new sample studies, better file handling, and streamlined tools for Dynamo


Autodesk Revit 2021.1
Enhancements:
API:
- Deprecated two properties DocumentSavingAsEventArgs.IsSavingAsMasterFile and DocumentSavingAsEventArgs.IsSavingAsMasterFile and added two properties DocumentSavingAsEventArgs.IsSavingAsCentralFile and DocumentSavedAsEventArgs.IsSavingAsCentralFile.
- In the API, replaced the Enum value ConnectorType.MasterSurface with a new value ConnectorType.MainSurface (no rebuild of existing applications referencing the replaced value is required).

Alignments:
- Added support for alignments to Revit transferred from a future version of InfraWorks as a part of the InfraWorks bridge model. Alignments support alignment station annotations to be added to an imported alignment individually or as "sets" to meet documentation requirements.

Dynamo for Revit:
- Updated Dynamo for Revit version to 2.6 in Revit 2021.1.
- Provided new Dynamo for Revit nodes for Path of Travel function including getting/adding/setting and removing waypoints, calculate the shortest way to multiples destinations.
- Added 90 new Dynamo Revit nodes related to Revit platform functions such as selection, documentation, view, etc.

Electrical Panel Schedule:
- Added support so users can modify elements in a circuit using the properties palette while in a panel schedule view by selecting the desired element(s) in the System Browser.

Export DGN:
- Renamed the property used for selecting the working units during DGN export through the API to WorkingUnits

Import/Export/Link SAT/SKP:
- Added support for importing SketchUp 2020 files

MEP Analytical Systems:
- Improved System-Zones by reporting the Level Offset and making it editable in the Properties palette

MEP Miscellaneous:
- Added support for P&ID Modeler to access Plant 3D Collaboration projects on a Europe data center

Reinforcement:
- Added the ability to identify the rebar host for any selected rebar set, area or path reinforcement

Shared Coordinates:
- Provided informational messages when attempting to acquire coordinates from a link

Shared View:
- Provided an easy way to share 3D views in Revit

Units:
- Added 50 new units of measurement, spanning across all disciplines.  Please see What's New for a complete list

User Interface:
- Refined disciplines and job roles in the user profile
- Updated the following dialogs to be resizable: Parameter Properties (Family Editor), Manage Project Units, Manage Project Parameters, Project Parameter Properties, New Shared Parameter, Shared Parameter Properties, Edit Tooltip
- Refined a link message in the Default Family Template File Invalid dialog
- Added the option to switch view tabs by history order (starting from last active/working view) using CTRL+(SHIFT)+TAB


Autodesk Revit 2021
New:
Generative Design:
- Run generative design studies. Generate results from sample studies or create your own with Dynamo

Customized workspace:
- Easily tailor your workspace to your work discipline and job role

Cloud model hosting in Europe:
- Host Revit cloud workshared and non-workshared models on European data centers

Dynamo 2.5 integration:
- Dynamo Revit 2.5 comes out of the box with Revit 2021

Integrated steel connections nodes:
- Dynamo nodes for placing steel connections now come out of the box with Revit

Slanted walls:
- Intuitively create and edit slanted walls, and instantly handle slanted doors, windows, and other wall-hosted geometry

Real-time realistic views:
- Work directly in real time with better, easier, and faster realistic views

Row striping for schedules:
- Read schedules more easily with row striping on sheet views

Electrical circuit naming:
- Electrical workflows in Revit 2021 are more adaptable to global requirements with flexible circuit naming schemes

PDF and image linking:
- Link PDFs or image files into Revit from local or cloud storage

Infrastructure discipline and bridge categories:
- Revit 2021 supports bridge and civil structures workflows with InfraWorks, including extended bridge categories for modeling and documentation

Integrated precast automation:
- Structural precast extension is now native to Revit with precast tools available on install

Integrated structural analysis results:
- Structural analysis results storage and exploration is now native to Revit on install

P&ID Modeler on BIM 360 Docs:
- P&ID Modeler for Revit now connects to BIM 360 Docs


Enhanced:
Electrical design:
- New support for single phase (line to neutral) panelboards, and improvements to switchboard circuits

Rebar modeling:
- A series of improvements for shapes, coupler connections, and end treatments for working with rebar

Tools for steel modeling:
- Enhancements to the create, edit, view, and snap command behaviors with steel stiffeners and plates

MEP worksharing:
- Improved worksharing provides better collaboration among stakeholders and a more consistent experience


Autodesk Revit 2020.2.1
- Change log not availabble for this version


Autodesk Revit 2020.2
New features:
- Open a Revit model with Desktop Connector: Revit provides additional guidance when opening files from Desktop Connector. See Open a Revit Model with Desktop Connector
- Folder path for BIM 360 Linked Models: When you manage your BIM 360 Docs cloud model links, the full folder path and model name displays so you can easily determine which model each link represents
- Improved Revit Home: Revit Home is more consistent with Civil 3D Home. See Revit Home

Work with Large Schedules:
- Freeze/unfreeze schedule header: You can freeze (lock) the main header and column headers in place to keep them visible when scrolling through it. When you unfreeze the headers, they may not be visible in every area when scrolling through the schedule. See About Working in Large Schedules.
- Active row and cell are highlighted in a schedule: The row and cell that are currently active are highlighted so that you can easily see them in a large schedule. See About Working in Large Schedules.
- Stripe rows in large schedules (2020.1): When working in wide schedules, you can set the rows to display in contrasting colors to make it easier to follow them across the schedule. This setting can be enabled for the schedule view only, must be enabled for each view separately, and is set only for the current Revit session.


Autodesk Revit 2020.1
- Change log not available for this version


Autodesk Revit 2020
PDF underlay support:
Insert a PDF into Revit from any source and snap to the PDF to model new elements based on the 2D data

Path of travel:
- Understand how people will move in a building or navigate a space to analyze design performance

Elliptical walls:
- Create more advanced wall geometry with the ability to draw elliptical walls and curtain walls

Tag, schedule, and view filter for elevation:
- Schedule elevation of elements and use those values in view filters, streamlining the ability to interact with elements in the properties palette

Track and edit scope box parameter in view list:
- Include the scope box parameter in a view list, coordinate crop regions across multiple views without opening each view

Create parts from imported geometry:
- Imported geometry (direct shapes) can now be split into parts. Make cuts and adjustments to parts using Revit opening and cut tools

Copy and paste legends across sheets:
- Enhanced copy-and-paste functionality for legends lets you efficiently copy legends for use in other locations

Improved rebar copy and move logic:
- Get more predictable behavior when copying and moving shape-driven rebar, for higher accuracy and design intent fidelity

Enhanced multi-rebar annotation:
- Use multi-rebar annotations for planar parallel freeform rebar sets and concrete faces

Steel connections for Dynamo:
- Use Dynamo to accelerate the insertion of multiple steel connections based on user-defined rules

Propagation of steel connections:
- Quickly add similar steel connections to your project by propagating existing connections

Electrical panel feed through lugs connection:
- Model the connection of panels through feed-through lugs, more accurately documenting the system design

Electrical homerun wiring improvements:
- With more control over arrowheads and tick marks, create electrical documentation that is easier to understand and use

Revit extension for fabrication exports:
- Generate CSV output to be used in spreadsheets or other data environments directly from Revit

Change service improvement:
- Change service now allows multi-shape services to be preserved or replaced in a single operation


Revit 2019.2
Cloud models for Revit:
- Store and access nonworkshared Revit models on the BIM 360 platform in a data format optimized for cloud storage, single-use editing, and syncing

CAM export:
- Create Unitechnik and PXML files to better-connect cast-in-place and precast concrete projects to automatic fabrication processes

Zoom in schedules:
- Use familiar keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out within a schedule to more easily read small fonts in a large schedule view

Edit elevation properties:
- Directly edit the top and bottom elevation properties of cable tray, duct, and conduit elements, facilitating easier model modification and coordination.


Revit 2019.1
Revit Home:
- Access, store, and share project information. Open files stored in BIM 360, locally, or on a network

Site collaboration with Civil 3D:
- Develop, use, and share topography data using interoperable workflows with Civil 3D

Free-form rebar-aligned distribution:
- Create rebar sets with planar bars distributed along the faces of a structural element and aligned to a distribution path


Revit 2019
Multimonitor support and tabbed views:
- Improve working space by organizing and arranging views using tabbed documents that can be docked, tiled, and viewed on multiple monitors

Levels in 3D views:
- Understand and manipulate important datum heights in your project with the option to display levels in 3D views

OR in filters:
- Create view filters with multiple rules and nested sets with combination of AND and OR conditions

Uncropped perspective views:
- Work in full-screen uncropped perspective view. Move around the view freely with navigation commands such as Zoom, Pan, and Orbit

Double-fill patterns:
- Communicate design intent by applying both foreground and background fill patterns in cut or surface

Custom steel connections:
- Enhance detailed steel modeling with the ability to create your own steel connections with dedicated tools

Engineering documentation for steel:
- Create accurate engineering documentation for structural steel, including details with steel connections

Free-form rebar shape matching:
- Use Revit to match existing rebar shape families or create new rebar shape families based on free-form bar geometry

Autodesk Drive:
- Securely store, preview, and share your 2D and 3D design data using data storage designed for individuals and small teams

Precast girder slabs automation:
- Perform segmentation; add reinforcement according to predefined rules; and generate shop drawings

Complex piping networks:
- Improved pressure drop analysis for complex networks, supporting primary/secondary separation for hydronic systems

Parallel pump analysis:
- Analyze pumps in parallel in hydronic piping networks, easily compute flow from duty and standby pump quantities