In this blog I have analysed and made comments on various Revit enhancements over the years. With all the recent talk of subscription value-for-money, I thought that now would be a good time to list and analyse the yearly enhancements to core Revit and those specific for Architects (my field).
Major changes
to the software occurred in v2010 with a radical change to the UI (the ribbon)
and a whole new conceptual massing environment. Further improvements have been made to
the massing tools each year but no attempt has been made to bring the
traditional Revit environment into line with the new Massing environment – they
continue to diverge, which is problematic.
Here is a
summary of enhancements to Core Revit and Revit Architecture only (API, BIM360/cloud, MEP & Structures enhancements not included):
Classification:
This method
of classifying the enhancements (by colour code) is subjective, and is based on how significant each change is
to workflows and the impact it had on…