Global parameters – Embed design intent with project-wide parameters that work with radial and diameter dimensions and equality constraints.

Dynamo – BIM workflows can be expanded and optimized with an open-source visual programming interface that installs with Revit.

Annotation – Designs can be communicated more effectively with WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing and features that allow the user to control text appearance.

Add-ins – Revit functionality can be extended with access to the application programming interface (API), enabling third-party solutions, add-ins, and a content library on the Autodesk App Store.

It uses 3D visualizations to see a building before it’s built. It automatically updates floor plans, elevations, sections, and 3D views.

Revit software produces consistent, coordinated and complete model-based building designs and documentation. Looking to the future, Revit is also a key component in the emerging field of BIM for generative design. It’s now about modeling of buildings in 3D, facilities, and even geo-location of buildings. BIM is no longer just about sketching, clash detection and modeling. Since 2016, BIM has been about the modeling of information, not just geometry. According to an HOK Architects presentation at BIMForum in 2014, for every $1 spent on design, $20 is spent on construction, and $60+ is spent on building operation. If something clashed, if something needed to be moved, the changes could be made in a BIM environment before costly mistakes were made without affecting the cost of the project. Between 20, the power of BIM in the construction industry was the “reduction of duplicated efforts.” Architects began coordinating with engineers, who began coordinating with contractors.

Since 2000, the purpose of BIM is to remedy that disconnect. For decades there was a disconnect between the building designers, the contractors and the operators. The building industry was booming, yet even sixteen years ago, it was estimated that the cost to the construction industry due to inefficiency was over $15-billion a year, primarily due to waste and rework. Why is BIM needed? From 1964 to 2002, construction efficiency declined despite the widespread use of new technologies in the 1980s and 1990s, including fax machines, cell phones and computer-aided design.

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