Summarize this content to 100 words: By: Nicolas Catellier, Architect, BIM specialist, and founder of BIM Pure.
Overall Impressions
Revit 2026 is here, and I can’t say I am overly impressed. These are subtle quality-of-life improvements. Some are nice, but don’t expect bold, audacious new features.
I want to be thrilled and surprised by Revit’s new features. I dream of tools built from first principles, not just tweaks and bug fixes on features developed 25 years ago.
Also, do we need a yearly Revit release? Maybe a new release every couple of years would make more sense. Tools like Figma, Notion, and other web-based BIM tools push updates frequently instead of sticking to a rigid yearly model. Shifting entirely to a web model might not be in the cards yet, but why force users to waste time updating if there isn’t much to show?
I still hope that Revit can innovate and thrill us. But the real innovation may come from newcomers like Snaptrude, Arcol, and Motif.
For now, we’re still on Revit. Some of these improvements…