Autodesk Revit
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Features
48 features across 8 categories
Analysis(7)
Use advanced simulation engines and building performance data integrated in Revit to assess daylighting, whole building energy, heating and cooling loads, and more
Use accurate and versatile structural analysis tools to assess and adapt design intent as your model develops. Automate analytical representation, run multiple analyses from a single intelligent model
Integrate analysis results into the BIM process and work in an iterative design workflow
Electrical engineers and designers working in Revit can now use an architect's PDF, DWG, or Revit geometry to perform preliminary load calculations earlier in the design process
Understand the carbon impact of your projects from concept design using the Revit add-on for Insight. Run carbon reduction scenarios and make informed design decisions
Insight lets you optimize building performance with centralized access to performance data and advanced analysis engines
Systems Analysis optimizes your HVAC systems design and modeling, letting you make data-driven design decisions
Collaboration(5)
Coordinate your project and collaborate with consultants on files hosted in Autodesk Docs
Support collaboration and a common data environment for coordinating projects with consultants on files hosted in Autodesk Docs
Revit cloud worksharing and BIM Collaborate Pro support collaboration and a common data environment
Sync your data to the Autodesk Construction Cloud mobile app to ensure that members of your team can complete tasks from anywhere on the jobsite, with access to project data even when offline
Save, sync, review, and update work to a centrally shared model in the Revit project collaboration environment
Design Tools(14)
Add architectural elements to the building model, including walls, doors, and windows, or define custom components and families to meet any modeling need and level of detail
Articulate form in the Revit massing environment with free-form tools for profiling and massing. Refine geometry parametrically in the project environment
Derive construction insight from design models. Split and manipulate wall layers and concrete pours and prepare shop drawings for fabrication
Design, model, and document electrical systems. Keep track of electrical loads throughout the distribution system
Quickly produce design alternatives based on goals and constraints that you define
Design complex duct and pipe systems to express intent, and model duct and pipe systems with mechanical design content
Customize and add accurate, manufacturable building product templates into your designs for immediate validation and faster design cycles
Design and document projects across industries with Revit's multidisciplinary tools, reducing rework time and promoting collaboration
Quickly create and modify multistory buildings by connecting stairs to the levels in your project
Place walls, doors, and windows in an open, graphical, and parameter-rich system for design and form-making
Create sanitary plumbing systems with sloped piping and layout piping systems to design and document intent
Use scanning tools to capture existing and as-built conditions and import into Revit as point clouds
Create toposolids and site elements with new modeling capabilities in Revit. Use snap to 3D points for underlay geometry, including linked DWG files, to ensure precise alignment
Model connections with a higher level of detail using a variety of parametric steel connections in Revit or by creating your own custom steel connections
Developer Tools(4)
Extend Revit functionality with Dynamo, API access, developer solutions, and BIM content on the Autodesk App Store
Automate and optimize BIM workflows with an open-source graphical programming interface that installs with Revit
Computational design gives structural engineers, designers, and detailers tools to build structures with minimal energy and make their own design tools
Tap into the core functionality of Autodesk Revit, enabling you to automate tasks, extend features, and create custom workflows to streamline your building design and modeling processes
Documentation(8)
Communicate design intent effectively with tools for tagging, dimensioning, and illustrating in 2D and 3D
Augment design-intent models with the detail necessary to meet the requirements of construction teams
Create project sheets and add your drawings and schedules to them. Customize title blocks and manage revisions
Document model layout more effectively. Document, schedule, and tag fabrication elements
Use the Design to Fabrication tool to convert design-level model elements to construction level-of-detail elements
Create fabrication-ready models in Revit. You can model and coordinate MEP LOD 400 components
Create 3D reinforcement designs for cast-in-place and precast concrete structures. Produce reinforcement shop drawing documentation with rebar schedules
Use tables to better capture, filter, sort, display, and share project data
Integration(4)
Bring AutoCAD files in or out of Revit, and prepare sheet sets for export to fabricators, subcontractors, or other project stakeholders in the format they need
Revit imports, exports, and links with commonly used BIM and CAD file formats, including IFC, 3DM, SKP, OBJ, and STEP
Interoperability between Revit and Advance Steel helps provide a seamless BIM workflow from steel design to fabrication
Open a Navisworks coordination model directly in Revit to coordinate your design with the work of teams that use different software
Project Management(3)
Track your constructability issues across design with the Revit Issues Add-in as your team makes changes
Define project phases (including demolition and renovation) and apply phase filters to views and schedules to show the project during various stages of work
Track changes and revisions made to your building model after sheets have been issued
Visualization(3)
Start Twinmotion directly from Revit. Sync design data and immerse yourself in the intuitive creator environment to bring your design to life as photorealistic stills, scenes, and animations
Control visibility by hiding, revealing, and highlighting building elements. Use overrides to customize appearance
Explore, validate, and communicate design decisions visually. Revit renders with high quality and precision through the Autodesk Raytracer rendering engine
Pricing
Annual Subscription
Popular- ✓30-day return policy
- ✓33% savings over monthly pricing
- ✓8x5 support
- ✓Single sign-on (SSO)
- ✓Usage reporting
- ✓3-year protection from price increases (3-year option)
Monthly Subscription
- ✓15-day return policy
- ✓No long-term commitment
- ✓Flexibility to respond to staffing changes
- ✓Can change to annual anytime
Flex
- ✓Buy tokens and pay daily rate
- ✓Access 100+ products
- ✓Share token pool
- ✓Flexible for changing software needs
- ✓Default group assignments
Business Plan
- ✓Designated Customer Success Manager
- ✓Fast 24/7 support
- ✓Expert coaching and learning plans
- ✓Success planning
Enterprise Plan
- ✓Tailored, proactive partnership with Autodesk
- ✓24/7 support with case manager
- ✓Custom tools, tracking, and reporting
- ✓Unlimited access
- ✓Flexible licensing options
Free Trial
- ✓30-day free trial
- ✓Start your project and try Revit
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Should you build a Autodesk Revit alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 48 features.
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Buying Autodesk Revit saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 48 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
11 known integrations