What’s New in Revit 2024.1.1

What’s New in Revit 2024.1.1

by | Sep 22, 2023 | Autodesk, Revit

Autodesk has recently released a new update for Revit 2024 that addresses 25 quality issues improving functionality and stability. This is an important update for all Revit 2024 (all versions) users, and we recommend that everyone using a 2024 version, update to this version as soon as possible.

What can you expect from this update?

The update addresses an extensible storage schema issue affecting addons and projects that are upgraded for Revit 2024.

This update is especially important for worksharing users that all project team members are using this release of Revit or higher. Why? To avoid the possibility of older versions of Revit 2024 reintroducing this problem back to the project teams’ model.

This update also provides several other fixes and performance improvements.

Dealing with the variety of projects and systems in the Revit world comes with many unknowns, so our support team continues to work with you to relay any issues to us.

Functionality Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue when an element with Entity attached is operated by a user in an upgraded file and a previous version file is opened in the same session containing the same schema.
  • Fixed an issue related to the graph nodes functionality in Dynamo for Revit.
  • Fixed an issue to assign unique GUIDs to part that have stored GUIDs to prevent duplicates.
  • Fixed an issue when reloading versioned parts so they retain size and description parameter values.
  • Fixed an issue to retain element GUIDs when changing the element type using the type selector.
  • Improved stability when upgrading models with P&ID elements.
  • Fixed an issue in which Revit could potentially produce empty or invalid geometry when importing an elliptical cone or cylinder from DWG, DGN, or DXF files.
  • Fixed an issue where the Interference Check tool was disabled when the Shared Views Palette was opened.
  • Fixed an issue where project parameters with similar names written with different case letters didn’t show in the element properties or type dialog.
  • Fixed an issue where the Version History page for Revit Cloud Workshared models would only display the last 1000 versions.
  • Fixed elements on sheet cannot be edited with work shared when a schedule on sheet is filtered by sheet.
  • Fixed an issue with Create Similar on Toposurface elements.
  • Fixed an issue where some old models could not upgrade using Revit 2024.1.

Stability and Performance Fixes:

  • Prevented potential stability issues due to periodic spline-based surfaces created from imported or linked CAD geometry.
  • Improved stability when upgrading a model.
  • Improved stability when importing or linking PDF files.
  • Improved Personal Accelerator’s cleanup behavior when it is tracking many models.
  • Improved stability when creating a ceiling in a ceiling plan.
  • Improved stability when dragging or flipping MEP family connector grip controls.
  • Improved stability by disabling the user modification of an air terminal’s flow value when the flow parameter is defined in a formula.
  • Improved the performance and stability of flow and pressure drop calculations of fabrication models containing many networks.
  • Improved stability when some duct and pipe systems were deleted after the sizing operation.
  • Improved stability when editing a panel schedule template.
  • Improved stability when placing line boundary conditions on curved analytical panels.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in poor stability when using the Change Service feature on large selections of ductwork.
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Introducing Revit 2024

Introducing Revit 2024

by | May 9, 2023 | AEC, Autodesk, BIM, Revit

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.

To see all this in video format, click here: [link coming soon!]

 

Design productivity

  • My Insights in Revit Home
  • Dark Theme
  • New Imperial and Metric Templates
  • New sample model
  • Modernized Project Browser with new Search
  • Height parameter in scope box
  • Color Books browser
  • Textures visual style
  • Revit to Twinmotion enhancements
  • Site design – Icon reorg for Massing and Site
  • Site design – Create Toposolid
  • Site design – Generate Toposolid from Toposurface
  • Site design – Linked Topography enhancements
  • Site design – Contour Display settings per Types
  • 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

Simulation & analysis

  • Sun Settings in the ribbon
  • Run Solar Studies with seconds intervals
  • Sun Paths in perspective views
  • Generate energy model by view
  • Enhanced structural analytical loads
  • Structural area loads with color coding
  • Custom physical-analytical association
  • Detailed results for connection automation rules
  • Non-coincident loads for electrical analytical components
  • Flow and pressure calculations added to MEP fabrication network
  • Network based calculation for design ductwork
  • Demand loads for electrical analytical components
  • Flow and pressure drop calculations

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

Design optimization

  • Dynamo for Revit 2.17 upgrade
  • Dynamo Player & Generative Design updates
  • Dynamo Player & Generative Design samples
  • Improved steel connections SDK documentation
  • Revit additional resizable dialogs
  • Revit Macro security improvements
  • API enhancements for developers

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

My Insights in Revit Home

  • New My Insights tab in Revit home page
  • Get personalized insights based on how you work and the work you do
  • Learn valuable information (new features, commands and workflows)
  • Display through cards
    • React to the cards
    • Learn more through the link in cards

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.   
Introducing Revit 2024

Introducing Revit 2024

by | Apr 5, 2023 | AEC, Autodesk, BIM, Revit

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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Access Twinmotion for Revit 2023 and 2024

Access Twinmotion for Revit 2023 and 2024

by | Mar 14, 2023 | BIM, Revit, Tutorial, Twinmotion

Recently included in all Revit subscriptions is access to Twinmotion. With a new partnership between Autodesk and Epic Games, all Revit subscriptions now have access to this real-time visualization tool to produce high-quality images.

Download Twinmotion:

  1. Access your Twinmotion subscription (included now with all Revit subscriptions) from your Autodesk Desktop App or access your Autodesk Account page.
  2. Click on the Twinmotion tile to get access to the Twinmotion installer webpage. You may have to accept their End User License Agreement to continue.
  3. Locate the downloaded .zip file (typically in your downloads folder) and right-click and choose Extract All
  4. Open the extracted folder, and double-click on the .msi file to startup the installer.
    Follow the onscreen prompts to complete the installation.

Exporting your Revit project to Twinmotion:

  1. Open Revit and open any project file.
    You must be within a 3D view to open Twinmotion.
  2. In the View tab > Presentation panel, click on Twinmotion then Open in Twinmotion.
  3. When Twinmotion opens, select New Project and click OK.

Updating your Revit model, and Synchronize back to Twinmotion:

  1. Open Revit again without closing Twinmotion.
  2. Modify your file, such as add new elements, change an element’s properties, etc.
  3. In the View tab > Presentation panel > Twinmotion, select Direct Link Synchronization.
  4. You do not have to save your file before you synchronize.
  5. Switch back to Twinmotion and you will see the changes occur immediately within the file.

Don’t forget to save your Twinmotion project to not lose your hard work!

Reopen a Twinmotion Project:

  1. If you already have an existing Twinmotion project, repeat the previous steps to export your file into Twinmotion
  2. When prompted, select Existing Project at the start window
  3. Navigate to the saved file on your system and click OK.
    You will continue from where you last left in the model.

Thank you for watching, hopefully you will all have fun visualizing your Revit projects in Twinmotion. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment. Like and subscribe if you’d like to see more Revit and Twinmotion content!

Revit Tips: Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Revit Tips: Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

by | Feb 16, 2023 | Revit

Have you tried setting up your own shortcuts in Revit? If you’re new to the program, shortcuts help increase your workflow and efficiency. Here’s how to set up your own Keyboard Shortcuts in Revit.

There are 2 methods of accessing this menu:

  1. Open the Application Menu > go to Options > click on User Interface > then Keyboard Shortcuts
  2. Find the View tab > under User Interface > click on Keyboard Shortcuts (KS is the keyboard shortcut)

This will opens the Dialog Box, where you can see all of the default keyboard shortcuts.
Locate the Search Bar at the top, type in your name or keyword for your desired command
Click within the empty cell next to the Command name
Press the new keys you would like to assign, and you will see at the bottom your input

Don’t forget to hit the green cross Assign button, then OK!
Let’s check out our new shortcut. If you haven’t used Revit or Revit shortcuts before, just type in the assigned letters or key combinations to activate the command. No need to press Enter or Spacebar if you’re coming from AutoCAD

You can also check out the tool itself within the Ribbon. The tooltip will now feature the assigned shortcut next to the name.