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Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012

Today Autodesk announced details of the 2012 AEC portfolio and once again this ismy yearly roundup / review of the Autodesk Revit Architecture product. Similar to lastyear, the alpha for this release started particular early, so those involved in thisfeedback process got a good insight into what was being proposed. In fact when Ivisited Autodesk last year I go an early preview of some of the work that was takingplace. I was fortunate enough to sit in on one of the development meetings where theconcept scoping document was being discussed on a particular feature in thisrelease. This was extremely enlightening; my overall opinion was that it was verysimilar to how the AEC industry works. In our case, we are the clients, we decide whatwe want and propose this to the researchers (the architect), the researchers thenwork with the developers (the contractor) to see how best to actually build the design.It is the architect as well as the contractor’s responsibilities to work within the budgetconstraints and to deliver the product on time. Fair enough, this is a simplistic viewon the situation and it is probably not as black and white as what I have described, asthere are many factors that could and will disrupt the development process.

So back to the Revit Architecture 2012; I will just be covering the Architectural andmajor platform enhancements and features; I am sure others will do a better technicalreview of Structure and MEP improvements than I will do.

So the key highlights include:-

Revit Server

Citrix Ready Release

Autodesk Vault Collaboration AEC

Linking Improvements

Work Sharing

Improved DWG export fidelity

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Modelling Enhancements

UI tweaks and adjustments

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Construction Modelling

Massing enhancements

Materials

Point Cloud Support

IFC

Revit Server was introduced as part of the mid-year subscription drop; my blog articleback in October provides an overview of RS if you need to know more. RS has beenfurther enhanced in 2012 and provides new platform server support for VMWare andWindows 2008 server release 2. More detailed historic information is available fromthe Revit Server administration tools and there is now support for editing requestsand notifications. Another nice feature is the new command-line “RevitServerTool”,this has been provided to allow you to create a local file from a central stored onRevit Server, without having to use Revit itself. RS also provides support of all thenew working sharing enhancements in this release, more about those later.

As project teams push Revit harder and the tools gets utilised on more challengingprojects the concept of linking models together has become more prevalent. Theoriginal concept of one super model which can do everything has migrated to a moreholistic and realistic approach of linking models. With this in mind, the need toenhance the linking abilities between models has become a user priority. The 2011release saw a number of key improvements within this area, 2012 sees theseextended further. Tagging has been extended to allow you to Tag Rooms in linkedArchitectural and MEP files. Spaces can be tagged in linked MEP files. Keynotingtags now work across all linked file types whether they are Architectural, MEP orStructural files. Area tagging now works on linked Architectural and MEP models. Theability to Tag Rooms alone is worth its weight in gold as this limitation causes projectsteams major headaches with the need to setup linked views etc to accommodate thisprevious limitation.

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The managed links dialog also see some minor tweaks. The Revit links tab is nowpositioned first, Users can now sort the columns by clicking the header of thecolumns. The default columns sizes have been improved to make reviewing andreading easier. Building on 2011, additional MEP elements categories have beenmade available to the copy / monitor function.

I would have to say that one of the biggest areas of improvement for Revit 2012 iswithin the Worksharing workflow. It pulls together a number of outstandingrequirements, requests and disconnected technology implementations and deliverssomething which addresses everything that I personally saw as a shortfall inWorksharing. A new feature called Worksharing Visualization allows you to view incanvas the ownership status of elements, specific owners of elements, whenelements are out of date as well as which elements are assigned to a particularWorksets.

A new view control bar has been added to each window which allows you to accessthese new Worksharing graphic features. When you go into a particular mode text incanvas is used to indicate which temporary display mode you are using.

The tool tip feature has also been expanded providing the user with moreWorksharing information as you hover over a particular element; where once you

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had to wait a fraction of a second for the tool tip to appear it is now instantaneous.

A major limitation of Revit in previous years has been the inadequate functionality ofthe edit requests feature. This tool, has from my memory never been improved?Where project teams have been disconnected geographically or just within the office,the use of instant message tools has become the norm to let team members knowthat you have placed a request or borrow an element or to get someone to relinquishand sync to central. The Worksharing monitor released a few years back did gosome way to assist, but it was really on stop gap solution. However, when RevitServer was introduced, you quickly discovered that the Worksharing monitor was notsupported in the environment! So it is refreshing to see that Revit 2012 now providesballoon notifications when editing requests. When you receive request, you can usethe buttons provided to show the elements that need to be relinquished. No morethrowing items at your team members to get them to relinquish borrowed items!

Its pleasing to see that Workset Visibility can now be managed by view templates!

Another minor improvement is the introduction of a Starting View. We at HOK alongwith many other firms, choose to have a starting view. This view in our case is adrafting view which indicates project details and is the neutral view we encourage allour users to save in.

This ensures that everybody gets the same view when they create a new local copyand experience has shown that this view opens quicker than having to wait for alarge 3d view to appear on the screen. Therefore, the new Starting View commandallows you to specify which view appears by default when you open the file. Anotherminor tweak is the ability to change the Workset parameter without first needing toborrow an element.

Finally, the most potentially useful as well as “dangerous” feature is the ability todisable Worksets. This really has been a long standing request, because onceWorksetted, officially you were unable to disable Worksets. Technically this is nottrue, as this functionality has been lurking around in the background for some time,but it has never been exposed to the user. Whilst it will be a very useful feature,

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without careful and proper management it could spell disaster if it gets into the handsof the Revit novice! Therefore, this feature has been hidden out of the way and hasbeen integrated into the detach from central workflow. When detaching from centralyou can detach and preserve Worksets or you can detach and discard Worksetswhich in effect turns it back into a standalone file.

DWG export fidelity from Revit has been well…….fine for the purpose it was intendedfor! I have said for a long time that it’s ok, but will never provide the same quality youwould get if it was drawn in AutoCAD in the first place. But it has been a longstanding request by many to improve the output that Revit provides. Now this createsa tricky challenge as you are trying to convert the output from one technologysuitable for use in another technology. We are often the executive architect and weproduce the designs in Revit up to DD or stage D (RIBA); the local architects weoften work with don’t have the latest technology, so AutoCAD is often their deliverytool. So in this occasion the best quality dwg export is the order of the day. As morefirms become Revit enabled this will be less of an issue.

Revit 2012 sees improvements across the board; the export user interface has beenupdated, pre-sets can be saved once you have configured the output to yourrequirements. The export settings can be transferred between projects, using theTransfer Project Standards command. Revit 2012 is now able to export style baseddimensions; this will ensure that the dimension text is controlled by the text style andthe tick mark is controlled by the arrow heads properties; no more proxy graphics torepresent dimensions in the DWG export.

Lines, Patterns, Text and Fonts, Colours, Geometry type, Units can also becustomized to a far more granular level of detail. In the case of Lines types you canmap Revit to use a .LIN file and Hatch Patterns you can map to a use a .PAT file. Allthis should help to improve the clarity of DWG exports from Revit. I do hope it willmeet most users’ needs, especially where you need to match to existing DWG CADstandards. But I will reiterate, whilst it is a major improvement, you shouldn’t take forgranted that this will resolve all your DWG clarity problems, there are some verycomplex CAD standards out there!

Revit 2012 release also sees a number of improvements to the user experience. Youwill find that the highlight and selection colours have been updated. Another obviousimprovement is the New Grip Graphic; these now appear visually better on thescreen. The temporary Dimensions graphics have been tweaked and these are nowblue rather than black. These are just minor tweaks, but they do improve theinteraction experience and it genuinely improves the fit and finish of the product.

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The Graphic Display Options Dialog box has also gone through a major overhaul.You are now able to create a View Template directly from this reconfigured Dialog.After user feedback from Revit 2011, there are now a number of additional visualstyles such as:

Realistic with Edges mode with Realistic views.

Ambient Occlusion for Hidden Line mode.

Ambient Occlusion along with Shadows for Consistent Colours mode.

Another sneaky little gem is the ability to print Ambient Occlusion! You will also findthe introduction of Ghost Surfaces. This is a new graphic mode which will displaysurfaces with 30% transparency. This is particularly useful and will provide the userwith additional control over complex 3D visualisations. The Ghost Surface featurecan be applied to whole view, by category, by element or as a filter. Below you cansee the image has had the Ghost Surfaces applied.

One of the foremost benefits of working in Revit and 3d is the ability to generateassembly 3d views and 3d details. I have said it many times, but give somebody a 3d



isometric of an assembly and they will have a better understanding of how thecomponents go together. The guys over at Lego have been doing this for years!!!So Revit 2012 now includes a new 3d view lock feature which allows you to lock to anorientation of a 3d and then tag elements within the view. The user has 3 possibleoptions available; save orientation and lock the view, restore orientation and lock theview, unlock the view. This is control via the View Control Bar.

Whilst I am on the subject of 3d, final Revit 2012 sees 3dconnexion device support.You will need to install the current drivers for you 3dspace mouse, but when you doan appropriate 3dspace mouse icon will appear on the Navigation Bar.

When Autodesk switched to the Ribbon, one rather nice feature in 2010 was theability to have Type Selector positioned in the Ribbon. Revit 2011 stole us of thisfeature and the Type Selector migrated its way to the Properties Palette. But I amglade to say the Type Selector in the Ribbon is back. If you right mouse click over thetype selector in the Properties Palette you can add it to the QAT (Quick AccessToolbar) as well as the Ribbon.

Schedule and legends views can now be created directly from the project browser.Just go to Schedule / Quantities or Legends in the Project Browser, right mouse clickand choose from the drop down menu.

Other user experience tweaks include the ability to export Family Types from aProject to a TXT file, import types into a family from TXT file, save all families from a



project or a family, customizable equality text, a number of improvements toDimension Leaders and a new Round Function for Formulas.

As with every release of Revit, Autodesk strive to improve the product performance.Purge Unused now includes unused Imported Categories and Object Styles, loadingelements into memory now has multi-threading support. Also Multi-threading has alsobeen extended to the calculation of silhouette edge graphics as well as graphicalrepresentation of model elements in open views, when changing view properties of aview.

You will discover various number improvements that were implemented in Revit2011’s massing tools have migrated their way into 2012’s project environment. Thesolid-solid cut tool can now be used on family instances.

The workplane Viewer is now available in the project environment and you can nowuse Adaptive Components in the project environment; you will discover that shapehandles have been provided to improve the placement and positioning of AC’s.Although it should be not that there are some restrictions on the use of AC’s, you willonly be able to use AC’s in Revit Architecture, no Revit Structure or Revit MEPsupport for the time being.

The creation of surface sub-regions on non-planar surfaces in the ConceptualEnvironment, which first appeared as part of the subscription drop, has beenenhanced further. It is accessible via the Split Face tool in the Geometry panel. Thisallows you to draw on the surface of non-planar surface and apply different materialsto the sub-region using the Paint tool. An essential feature when apply materials tomasses for energy analysis exercises.

Core Modelling



A long standing request from the Revit community is to allow families to cut otherfamilies. So 2012 now allows face-based void families to be hosted on and cutStructural Framing, Columns, Structural Foundations or Generic model families withinthe Project. Also, families which just contain voids only and don’t actually cut anythingin the family itself can be used to cut walls, floors, roofs, ceilings as well as the familytypes mentioned previously. This starts to resolve a number of use cases such asholes in beams or the ability to automatically cut an opening in a worktop whenplacing a sink.

As the Revit platform starts to take its grip on the AEC industry as the BIM technologyof choice, Autodesk is starting to ensure that Revit can be utilised in other parts ofthe AEC workflow. A number of contractors have made a serious investment in Revitand are utilising the tool in their workflow. If anybody has seen what TocciConstruction are doing with Revit, you will know exactly what I mean. Therefore, tostart to move into this arena and to address the complexities and finesse ofConstruction Modelling, Revit 2012 introduces the ability to Create Parts and Dividethe model. These features are purely focused at construction engineer who needs tosplit the model into smaller component parts.

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Parts are produced by breaking down the compound components which make upwalls, roofs, ceilings and floors. When you select a wall for instance and choose tocreate parts, the wall will break down into its individual component layers. Theindividual parts do retain the geometric relationship with its original element.However, Parts do have their own properties, so they can be scheduled and can bemodified independently. By enabling the grip handle functionality available from theproperties palette you can pull the various layers around. Once Parts are made, youcan then use the Divide Parts Command to divide the compound Part further byusing sketch lines on the active workplace.

Assembly and Assembly views have been introduced to resolve certain pre-castconstruction workflows. To generate an assembly, you select the elements you wantto group as part of your assembly, and then choose the Create Assembly Command.Once you have created the assembly and named it, it will appear under assembliesin the project browser. You can then generate views from the assembly by clicking onthe create views commands. This allows you to create shop drawings of componentswhich are independent of the main model.

Both these features have massive potential; it will start to allow for more granulardetailing. A word of warning though, these feature are only available in RevitArchitecture and Structure; when you break your model into parts it will add weight to



your model as the original element is still retained. I joked last year when I saw thisfeature that I could see some going mad and breaking everything and anythingwithout understanding the consequences!

There have been a couple of useful tweaks to tools in the Conceptual MassingEnvironment. You can now have Formula Driven Components. What this means isthat you can use conditional formula parameters and apply this to a divided surface.A new parameter called “Family Type:Divide Surface” allows you to drive the displayand type of a pattern or a component.

The other minor improvement is the control of parameter values for points hosted online or curves. Previous to 2012, whilst you could host a point on a line, theparameter was normalized between a value of 0 to 1. This got even more confusionon circles as the value was expressed in radians. Now you can still express thenormalised segmented length between 0 and 1, but you also have additionalparameters for segmented length, normalized segment length, chord length, angle,non-normalized curve parameter and normalized curve parameter.

There have been some fundamentals changes to how material work. Whilst much ofthis work is on-going and will not be immediately obvious to the user this is the firststeps of a large project to focus on delivering models with Physical Materials. ThePaint tool has undergone a change, so when selected it will automatically open thematerials dialog box to allow you to preview the material before applying to anelement. The Remove paint tool allows you to remove materials you have alreadyapplied. You can also schedule materials that have been applied by the Paint tool.

Massing Tweaks

More Material Changes



The management and control of material has been upgraded; for instance you cannow create property sets for materials. These are collection of properties that areused to define the aspect of the material. The management of property sets aremanaged through an overhauled Material Properties Library Dialogue. This work hasaccumulated into the ability to have libraries that can be present in a project or anindependent file which can be shared between users as well as other Autodeskapplications such as 3dsmax. With this change we can again create customizedlibraries for project or for your office, something which was not possible whenAutodesk changed from Accurender to MentalRAY. Finally, the icing on the cake, youcan now purge unused materials from a project, no more keyboard combinations ofselecting and deleting one at a time!

One of the most exciting features in Revit 2012 is support for Point Cloud data.Times have changed; one of the outcomes of the recent global downturn is thatclients are now looking to refurbish their existing building stock rather than finding agreen field sight and plonking down a new building. Refurbishment has a directcorrelation with the sustainability agenda; what could be more Green than taking anexisting building and refurbishing to meet current regulations and requirements?Maybe that is a rather unsophisticated view on the situation, but when talking withmany of our clients here in London, this is how they are thinking. Therefore, howdoes the notation of BIM interface with the world of refit and refurbishment? How doyou capture what already exists and utilize this to develop the BIM?

The concept of laser scanning it nothing new; the use of the technology has certainaccelerated in recent years, with more and more surveying firms offering laserscanning services. But capturing the data is one thing, utilizing data to develop aRevit model has, up until now, been extremely challenging.

Point Cloud Support



Revit 2012 sees the use of Autodesks propriety point cloud engine to access largepoint cloud datasets. The following raw formats .las, .xyb, .pts, .ptg, .fls, .fws.aresupported. You are able to insert a Point Cloud file via the Insert > Managed linkedtab but due to the nature and size of point cloud files they are referenced into theproject rather embedded.

Once linked into a project, a point cloud file behaves like any other model element. Itwill appear in views and can be selected, rotated, copied, deleted and mirrored. Youhave the capability to link multiply point cloud files and you can obviously control thedisplay of the cloud file via Visibility / Graphics. All the normal Revit rules apply so,plans, section as well as section boxes can cut through the cloud file which isparticularly useful if you need to isolate a particular areas of the cloud data.

Okay, so you have the cloud data linked into the Revit project, what next? Geometrycan be used to snap to planar surfaces that are dynamically detected in the pointcloud. Revit will only detect planes that are perpendicular to the current workplane.The snap tool feature streamlines the model authoring process from the cloud data.There are also various API enhancements which I am sure, will open up opportunitiesfor more enhanced geometry creation tools to be developed by third partiesdevelopers. I have heard through the grape vine that the new Point Cloud feature willhappily manage Point Cloud datasets up to around 30 gigs. Whilst many may neverutilise this functionality, I do foresee many firms who do refurbishment making gooduse of this powerful feature.

The IFC export engine has been tweaked and is now “layered” on the Revit API. Thishas allegedly addressed a number of export bugs. I personally have mixed views onIFC; I so want it to work, but without the necessary appetite from AEC firms to sitdown and work together to get it completely working , then it will still remain what it istoday. Autodesk is the biggest player in the AEC software market, you would certainlythink it was in there interest to drive the IFC discussion and put some real effort in.More and more countries are demanding BIM, with the deliverables being of an open

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standard. Therefore, if Revit is to be the BIM authoring platform of choice, the IFCoutput needs to be the best it can possibly be. I am aware there is much work takingplace in the background with the IFC schema, so I do hope I can report back in thenear future on the efforts.

So in summary and in my humble opinion, Revit 2012 is overall a positive release. Ithas some superb features particularly around large team workflows and the supportfor point cloud data is an excellent move. There is also Citrix Support as well asAutodesk Vault support. I will cover these features in a future article, as I am currentlytesting these in my office.

Will Revit 2012 keep the die-hard Revit user who wants long standing items likebetter text tools, improved typography and site, stairs etc….happy???? hmmmmmprobably not! But I would have to argue that whilst some of the improvements to bigticket modelling items have yet to appear, there is still plenty in this feature richrelease to make most users content.

But a word of warning Mr Autodesk; some of these long standing requests really doneed to be addressed over the next 1 to 2 releases. I see users fighting with some ofthe trickier tools on a day to day basis and I feel their pain. However, I have apragmatic view on much of this now as I have come to realize that there is no utopiaand Rome really wasn’t built in a day. As the Guinness Ad says, good things come tothose that wait. Nevertheless, improving model quality and construction assembly byproviding flexible, easy to use software tools most be the end game. Without this,there will always be an excuse by some diehards that this “BIM thing” is just not worthdoing.

One final point; the content and views expressed in this article are purely my own.Some will be thinking, does he get paid for writing this stuff???….nope I don’t. Mypassion for the Revit technology and BIM has become engrained in my DNA; it’s justwhat I do. It’s what makes me wake up of a morning and travel to work :-)

Summary and Final Thoughts…..

37 comments:Jason Grant said...

You never mentioned Galaxy... :) All the hype and no galaxy.

12:14 AM

Joe Stott said...

Wow David, you have been busy. Thank you for your excellent write up ofthe new feature they look great. looking forward to getting 2012 installedon m workstation and giving them a go. Keep up the good work. :)

12:36 AM

Alfredo Medina said...

Thank you, David, for this nice and comprehensive summary of the newfeatures! Keep up the good work!

2:12 AM

Don Rudder said...

You rock David... GALAXY!!!

3:00 AM

carrucha75 said...

Thanks David! Wonderful i appreciate your opinion thanks again

4:25 AM



Dave Baldacchino said...

Awesome review David! I'm now going to delete my post that I spent thelast 2 1/2 hours writing up...

6:00 AM

vladixel said...

Best time of the year is here again. great post , would you know therelease date?

6:49 AM

Goog said...

eagerly waiting for it.Thanks

6:50 AM

Julien BENOIT said...

Very well done, thanks!btw, you did this only during the webcast? ;-)

6:52 AM

Julien BENOIT said...

very well done, thanks!btw, you did this only during webcast ? ;-)

6:54 AM

Romanich said...

Thank you for very interesting post!

8:45 AM

erlendba said...

Some nice features such as family cutting family.. but frustrating that theydo not take the poor line graphics seriously. So far its mostly the largeprojects that benefit from revit, but it could be utilized in so many morerefined projects if it had the same graphical qualites as autocad ormicrostation.

Erlend AA Dip

9:13 AM

Raghavendra Bhat said...

Excelent! Waiting to use Revit 2012

10:04 AM

Boba Fett said...

What is the status with multi core processor support and 64-bitoptimization? I understand this is a major re-write of the code, but it needsto be done to support these huge files.

Thanks for the blog.

1:16 PM

Paul Munford said...

This is a really comprehesive review David. Thanks very much for takingthe time to write it.

I look forward to learning more about Revit assemblies in particular.

I have linked to your post from my Blog:



Autodesk 2012 product line announced today

2:01 PM

Dzung said...

I LIKE THIS!

2:20 PM

Josef said...

Nice post, thanks.

PepaR

2:24 PM

Kelly Cone said...

Well done - as always! Linking to your post...now!

3:14 PM

Patrick Villella said...

Great article, David. You did a really nice job summarizing these greatnew features, while still making a good case at the end to give users someof the long requested features they need to be more productive.

While it's hard to pinpoint that one 'golden' feature that's going to makeeveryone jump up and down, there are certainly a host of greatimprovements and refinements that will make life much easier for manydesigners.

It was nice to see you so active in the beta forums. I, like you, love thisstuff! See you in the forums.

Patrick Villella, LEED APCADsoft Consultingwww.cadsoft-consult.com

4:09 PM

Matt said...

Excellent review

7:25 PM

Brian said...

Great stuff. I have been waiting a long time for the ability to purge un-used materials. Wish you could merge similar materials. Thanks forputting together this preview.

2:24 AM

carrucha75 said...

Thanks David, I really appreciate your comments here

4:14 AM

Ron76 said...

Great news, thanks for posting all the information.But I would have really loved to see Revit for Mac, too...

4:10 PM

a. schindler said...

Hi,my name is Andreas Schindler, i got this link from Todd B., HOK SA. and ireally appreciate your comments.



Im curious about Revit 2012, therefore i was very happy to readsomething about it.i support your opinion about basic abilities and fundamental necessaritieslike site, stairs etc.These are the things that "normal" users need, and if its not or badworking, the users comments, also to the management, sound in a waythat Revit will be kicked, and the way goes back to Autocad (Happenshere in the office 1 Year ago)So also my postulation to Mr. Autodesk is.. "Serve the basics! The Funnythings are for afterwork....."

Thanks

Andreas Schindler

9:46 AM

Oliver said...

Thanks for this in-depth commentary on the new release. I cannot wait toget it installed on my computer.

Keep up the good word... work... whatever. :)

10:59 AM

Galen said...

Great write up David!I agree fully, a lot of perks and quality of life improvements. (For newusers the slight tweak to Rotate will be fantastic!) But I too was looking forthe big you have to have this feature. I think the Constructability and theWorksharing Tools will eventually become invaulable, but at this timeusers will have to tweak their process to get the most use out of them.

3:34 PM

timothy said...

another ridiculous .5 releaseI can't believe there hasn't been any update to the fact that you cant TRIMSPLINES and that you sill can't work in a perspective view... come onAutodesk, what are you doing with our money?

7:03 PM

SF Architect said...

I am intrigued by Revit as an Archicad user. One thing I don't like is notbeing able to modify roofs and slab in 3d as I can in archicad. Is this anew feature of RVT 12 or has it been requested.

I am amazed it is not there!

2:31 AM

cletus said...

soooo, that was neat and all about 2012 Revit new features, but where isthe big secret announcement....

Also, you mentioned Tocci Construction neato things they are doing... doyou have a link?

...or is that only for cool people...If so, I'm probably out of luck as I am notcool. hehe..

Seriously, The Server, Point Cloud and the IFC tweaks are helpful.

9:34 PM

Rick Feineis said...



Great write up David! It is the most comprehensive one I have seen yet on Revit Arch 2012.

I'm providing this link to all of our students that are contemplating our

Revit Architecture 2012 online training. Several have commented thatthey also appreciate all the time that you have spent on this.

Please keep up the good work!

Rick

12:34 PM

JTB said...

Great article, thank you very much for this!However, I must say that all these great new features for worksharing areuseless for us single licence owners... Also, the new materials andrendering improvements would be great, but after buying MAX andMaxwell, it is really difficult to go back to RPCs and mental ray...And yes, you're right that some really important issues must be addressedin 1-2 releases... Important things that I could never do without preciousforum help.

6:40 AM

John said...

really, no text editor improvements?...really?!? I would take a wordpadlevel of functionality, we're talking 1980s technology for gods sake.

6:39 PM

G said...

David, as has already been mentioned multiple times, thank you verymuch for the in depth review of Revit 2012. As the BIM Manager in mycurrent office, I always look forward to the new releases and enhancedfeatures that help improve our workflow.

Thanks Again!

3:21 PM

Silleke Suarez said...

Thanks David for your time in writing this review. Can't wait to get hold ofthis version.- Silleke

5:11 PM

BIM Troublemaker said...

Nice write up. I have been too busy with project work to have timeexploring 2012. Now i know what to look for!

1:13 AM

naruto said...

I agree that the Graphical Line Quality Needs to be improved.

3:22 PM

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