What's New in Autodesk Revit 2024
The new features in Autodesk Revit 2024 fall under these six categories:
- Design productivity
- Simulation & analysis
- Interoperability
- Cloud & data
- Design optimization
- Documentation efficiency
Design Productivity
General
My Insights in Revit Home
A new My Insights panel has been added to the Revit Home.
By aggregating usage data and finding trends in your workflows, Revit helps you quantify your most common commands and keystrokes, and offers suggestions for how you can optimize and save time when completing design tasks.
It provides information, recommendations, hints and tips to make your work in Revit more effective.
The page displays cards, you can react to these cards and click the Learn more button to access additional online content.
Dark Theme
Revit supports now the Dark Theme for first level user interface, including Properties Palette, Project Browser, Option Bar, Status Bar, View Control Bar. You can also set the drawing area (canvas) theme to Dark or Light both from the ribbon and the Options dialog.
New Sample Model and Project Templates
Use the sample model to learn about features and workflows. The sample model is an example of a mixed use project created using Revit. The model shows examples of how many elements are used to create a project. Examples of construction documents as well as coordinated structural, MEP, site, and point cloud files are included in order to provide a complete model.
Use the Help icons located through the model to learn about specific elements and workflows demonstrated with the model. Track your progress learning about the sample model with the “How Do I?” schedule included in the model. The updated project templates make starting projects and developing your own templates easier.
New Imperial and Metric English “All Discipline” templates are included in a standard installation. The templates include a new starting view, updated fonts, and families loaded for each category.
Modernised Project Browser with New Search
A search function is now available at the top of the Project Browser.
The search starts automatically and updates relevant results as you type. The matched keywords are highlighted in the filtered list on all levels of the hierarchy in the Project Browser.
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Colour Books Browser
Improve design deliverables by applying consistent color standards. The new colour books browser replaces how you can select Pantone colors.
- Access new color books in dialogs, including Pantone & RAL.
- Provides access to Pantone and RAL color books, and the ability to add custom-made color books.
- Use the Autodesk Color Book editor to create your custom color book files at
- Store your custom .acb file under the file path C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RVT XXXX\ColorBooks
Visit: https://download.autodesk.com/global/acb/index.html to download.
Textures Visual Style
Expand your ability to create impactful representations using the new Textures visual style to apply the texture of render materials without lighting effects.
This style maintains a consistent textural appearance so that a material is always displayed in the same way no matter how it is oriented to the light source.
Revit 2024 to Twinmotion Enhancements
Expedite your renderings updates with the Auto Sync link in Twinmotion with Revit 2024.
- The Auto Sync functionality has been added to the Twinmotion drop-down menu.
- Auto Sync supports automatic synchronisation of changes from the active Revit model to the direct link connection in Twinmotion or Unreal Engine.
- A 3D view needs to be active in order to enable Auto Sync, which is then associated to that 3D view.
Once Auto Sync is enabled while in a 3D view, all visible geometry in this view is automatically kept in sync.
Parameters Sorting in Type/Instance Properties
Project parameters were previously sorted by the date/time of creation, now project parameters are sorted alphabetically in type and instance properties dialogs
Export ‘Family Type’ Parameter
Once you have built your family and defined your family types, you can use the “Family Types” export tool to generate a text file.
In Revit 2024, family type parameter data gets included in the export, helping create a family type catalog with less efforts.
Height Parameter in Scope Box
Get more flexibility when modifying scope box parameters. With the scope box feature, you can control the extents of levels, grids, reference plans, and even the views themselves in plan views.
Height and name parameters have been moved from the Options bar to the Properties palette when creating a scope box in Revit 2024. After a scope box is created, you can edit its height value directly in the Properties palette.
Site Design
Site Design - Toposolids
Improve the quality of your site design with the Toposolid capabilities in Autodesk Revit 2024.
Toposolids represent topography as solid geometry and replaces the Toposurface functionality in previous releases with new icons under the Massing and Site ribbon reflect these new capabilities.
There are two methods to create a Toposolid:
1) Sketch the boundary and and defining elevation points
2) Create it from an import file, either a CAD import or a point file in CSV format.
Existing Toposurfaces upgraded from previous versions can be converted into Toposolids with the “Generate Toposolids” contextual tool. Here you can access the legacy Toposurface settings. Linked topography generated from Civil 3D and hosted in Autodesk Docs will be automatically converted into a Toposolid. The Property Line Data settings is now available as a stand-alone drop-down menu of the Model Site ribbon panel.
Site Design - Toposolid Properties
Improve the site documentation with expanded surface types by building Toposolids as system families with different instance and type properties, to represent different types of surface sections such as roads and sidewalks, soil infills, grade slabs, sport fields, water bodies, etc.
In Autodesk Revit 2024, each Toposolid type can display different compound layer configurations and different ways of representing contour line intervals.
Toposolids can be set up as a room bound element, suitable for open space programming. The instance properties of a toposolid report a myriad of dimensional parameters, including slope, perimeter, area, volume, elevation, and thickness, among others.
Site Design – Solid Subdivisions
Another Site Design feature in Revit 2024 allows you to design topography features faster and deliver better site plans by defining an area of a toposolid to offset from the original toposolid surface.
For example, you can use sub-divisions to draw parking lots roads, or islands on a toposolid. Creating a sub-division does not result in separate surfaces. Use the split tool to achieve that. Use the instance properties of the sub-division to assign another material to the toposolid.
The sub-division is positively offset from the original surface and must have a thickness > 0. Inherit Contours toggle will display contours from the parent toposolid on the sub-division.
Site Design – Cut and Split Toposolids
Building pads are now retired in Autodesk Revit 2024. Existing pads present in upgraded models can still be edited, but you won’t have the ability to create new ones. To represent an excavation or a tunnel, use cut tools using in-place void-mass families to perform boolean operations.
In addition, you can cut a Toposolid with elements of multiple categories, including other Toposolids, Ceilings, Floors, Slab Edges, Roofs, Fascia, Gutter, Roof Soffits, Structural Foundations, Walls, Wall Sweeps, Mass Void Forms. Use the Split Tool to freely Split Toposolids in separate element, using sketch lines as the cutting edges. Annotations such as Spot Elevation and Dimensions will remain in place after the split operation. The Split portion with the larges volume will inherit the original ElementID.
Site Design – Graded Regions
Reduce your site construction cost with balanced cut and fill analysis. Revit 2024 can report cut and fill volumes on a site to aid in determining the costs of landscape modification during site development.
Apply cut and fill volume analysis to Toposolids using Graded Regions. The grading tool marks an existing Toposolid as demolished and makes a copy with a matching boundary in the current phase .
Grade areas of the topography using the point shape-editor, where you can add, delete, or change the elevation of points. Report the cut and fill volumes of a graded region with a Toposolid schedule.
Site Design – Show Shape-Edit Control Points
You can preview the display of a Toposolid control points during pre-highlight and selection. Turn off the display of points toggle if you experience performance issues.
The toggle is available as a drop-down panel of the Shape Editing tool. The points will be always accessible when to edit the Toposolid using the Modify sub-element tool.
Site Design – Additional Functionality
Enjoy your site modeling experience with the expanded functionality of Toposolids with it now being easier than ever to model fences that follow the surface of a topography.
Railing now are hosted by Toposolids. In addition, it can host elements from the categories of Site, Parking, Floor Based Elements. Slab edge families can be applied to the edge of a toposolid. For example a slab edge might be used to model a curb edge on your site.
For program developers, Revit 2024 has added APIs for Toposolid-related functions: Toposolid Creations, Generate Toposolid from Toposurface, simplifying Toposolid Points, Subdivision Creations, and Contour Settings.
Rebar
New Path Alignment Options for Freeform Rebar
These new alignment options for the freeform rebar in Revit 2024, increase 3D rebar modeling versatility and help you define the accurate reinforcement for standard and non-standard shapes of concrete elements.
You can now choose how to align the bars in the rebar set and also you can make the bars in the set to be parallel to the planar face selected in the Align/Close constraint. You can also set the alignment options for free form rebar sets, using the Bar Alignment parameter in the Properties palette of the structural rebar or using the in-canvas toggle.
Stirrup Orientation for Aligned Freeform Rebar
Increase 3D rebar modelling versatility by greater control over free form rebars in Revit 2024. You can now toggle the stirrup orientation for the aligned distribution free form rebar by pressing Space bar, however, only applies only for the closed stirrups in the set.
MEP
MEP Fabrication Ductwork Stiffener
Create stiffeners on ductwork with dedicated features with the new MEP Fabrication Ductwork Stiffener command in Autodesk Revit 2024 under the system tab.
This command enables manual placement of loaded stiffener families. Currently stiffener families can be placed and hosted onto straight segments of Fabrication Ductwork. After placement, the hosted stiffener instances would move and resize with the duct segments as users make modifications.
A new family category MEP Ancillary Framing has been added for the basic components used in creating MEP supporting elements such as duct stiffeners, hangers and supports, or equipment racks. Revit 2024 comes with typical Ancillary Framing families used to construct duct stiffeners, including angle irons, struts, rods, angle rings and more.
You can create a schedule with MEP Fabrication Ductwork Stiffener embedded into a Fabrication Ductwork schedule. This allows to more clearly report stiffener data such as stiffener type and their relative location on the duct along with their hosting duct segments, helping with quantification in the fabrication process. Internal stiffeners can be created by constraining internal supporting members such as threaded rods families or conduits families to either side of a duct connector. A built-in parameter is used to differentiate the classification of stiffeners. By setting the parameter value as Internal Stiffeners, Revit creates holes on the stiffener’s hosting ductwork based on shared ancillary framing components.
When you export the fabrication ductwork in a project to a maj. File, hole information will be generated based on internal stiffeners’ locations and shared sub-components. This allows to generate more accurate cut patterns in legacy fabrication products such as Autodesk CAMduct.
Elevation Parameters in Visibility Filters
In Revit 2024, you can easily and accurately control the display of MEP components with visibility filters with access to additional elevation parameters to control the visibility of MEP components in your views.
These improvements to elevation parameters will help you document for installation on sloped MEP segments more efficiently in Revit 2024.
Pipe Wall Thickness as a Built-in Parameter
Revit 2024 has wall thickness as a built-in parameter for pipes to more efficiently create documentation for pipes based on the information available in the model.
This wall thickness parameter is available for pipe tagging and scheduling. You can also use this wall thickness parameter in view filters to control the appearance of pipes in a view.
Hide Insulation With Hosting Duct and Pipe
Improve efficiency when hiding ducts with insulation. In previous releases of Revit, the insulation remained visible when hiding duct and pipe with insulation, however, now in Revit 2024, the insulation gets hidden regardless the method you use to hide the insulation on duct or pipe elements.
Height Parameter in Scope Box
Get more flexibility when modifying scope box parameters. With the scope box feature, you can control the extents of levels, grids, reference plans, and even the views themselves in plan views.
Height and name parameters have been moved from the Options bar to the Properties palette when creating a scope box in Revit 2024. After a scope box is created, you can edit its height value directly in the Properties palette.
Simulation & Analysis
Solar Study Enhancements
Better visualise the impact of sunlight and shadows. You can access the Sun Settings dialog directly from the ribbon.
Smaller time intervals measured in seconds are now available for single-day solar studies. Study shadows with a higher precision using 15, 30, 45, or 60-second intervals. Drag the sun along its path when using perspective view.
Generate Energy Model by View
Toggle this functionality on or off in the Energy Settings dialog and select a 3D view to create the EAM from to create a faster and more accurate Energy Analytical Model for use in Insight, Systems Analysis and 3rd party tools (via gbXML export). New capabilities for Energy Analysis provide workflow simplification especially when working with linked Architectural models. 3D views can now be chosen to more selectively define what elements are used in Energy Analytical Model creation. This essentially provides an additional means of controlling what elements are used in EAM creation that’s independent from the room bounding setting.
Enhanced Structural Analytical Loads
In Revit 2024, there’s more versatile and accurate definition of structural loads, to improve analytical modeling flexibility. Structural engineers can now apply hosted loads to specific areas of panels and members. Additionally, you can now copy loads to other hosts.
Structural Area Loads With Color Coding
Now in Revit 2024, structural area loads can be presented using color-coding to differentiate load natures which results more clear documentation of the analytical model.
Custom Physical-Analytical Association
Now you can create multiple associations between structural elements to better coordinate updates across the physical and analytical models.
You can associate multiple analytical panels or members to a single physical object (or vice versa). For example, several analytical panels to represent a single physical floor, several beams associated to a single multi-span analytical member, etc. This new feature helps better coordinate updates across physical and analytical models.
Structural Area Loads With Color Coding
Now in Revit 2024, structural area loads can be presented using color-coding to differentiate load natures which results more clear documentation of the analytical model.
Cloud Data & Interoperability
Link coordination models from Autodesk Docs
The new Link Coordination Model feature with Revit and Autodesk Docs makes it easier for project teams to evolve work together.
- Keep project files light and your work in synch with your collaborators.
- Link directly into Revit models and views from any of the 60+ formats supported by Docs and the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
- Underlay the coordination model as visual reference when designing in Revit and reduce the need for interpretation when coordinating design deliverables with partners and project teams.
Properties of Coordination Model Objects
You can select individual coordination objects by pressing the TAB key until it highlights the element you want to select and get properties of this object displayed in the Properties palette.
These properties are in read-only mode and therefore cannot be edited.
Point Snaps for Coordination Model Objects
Enable fast and convenient snap on coordination model objects. When linking a coordination model into your Revit project, you can snap to coordination model objects.
This is controlled by a new “Snap to Coordination Models” option located in the “Snaps” dialog box.
For example, you can use the “Measure” tool to get a distance between an object in your current Revit project and another object hosted in a linked coordination model.
Properties of Coordination Model Objects
You can select individual coordination objects by pressing the TAB key until it highlights the element you want to select and get properties of this object displayed in the Properties palette.
These properties are in read-only mode and therefore cannot be edited.
Design Optimisation
Dynamo for Revit 2.17 Upgrade
Dynamo 2.17 includes the following features: node recommendations powered by machine learning, settings import and export, graph import to workspace, and more. There are several improvements to Node Autocomplete:
- Node Recommendations, a new ranking method powered by machine learning and based on graph practices in thousands of training graphs. This method is able to provide more accurate and meaningful node suggestions. This ranking method causes network traffic. If you notice network issues, try switching to the Node Type Match ranking method.
- When using the Node Recommendations method, each recommended node is shown with a confidence rating, which indicates the algorithm’s confidence that the node is a good choice for the port.
- The existing Object Type ranking method continues to be available as an option and has been renamed Node Type Match.
- Node Autocomplete settings are available in Preferences Features Node Autocomplete.
You can import and export Dynamo settings from the Preferences panel. Settings will be exported as an XML file.
- When importing, existing settings will be overwritten. To maintain a copy of the current settings, first export your existing settings.
- For any settings that are not available in the Preferences panel, you’ll need to restart Dynamo (and any host program you may be running) before the imported settings take effect.
Insert graphs into the workspace by going to File Insert and selecting a DYN file. If you already have nodes or a graph in the workspace, the inserted file content will appear below the existing content. To avoid potential issues, Manual run mode will be changed to Automatic.
Also, there are several improvements to the Documentation Browser:
- Content is reordered and organised into three expandable and collapsible sections: Node Information, Node Issue Help (when applicable), and Inputs and Outputs.
- Example files in the Node Information section can be navigated using mouse controls or the new control buttons.
- Visual hierarchy and a modernised look and feel have been implemented.
Dynamo Player & Generative Design Updates
Achieve better design outcomes more efficiently, with these enhancements to Generative Design and Dynamo Player, in Revit 2024. View graph issues and dependencies, add image outputs, and try out new sample graphs in Dynamo Player for Revit 2024.
- Improvements include: The new Issue Viewer allows you to examine graph issues, including errors and warnings, within Dynamo Player. You can access Issue Viewer from the footer of the Player application after running a graph with at least one error or warning, or from the Options menu.
- You can examine each graph’s dependencies in Player through the new Graph Dependencies dialog. This dialog provides a quick way to see which packages, external files, or other dependencies your graph needs in order to run properly, enabling you to identify missing dependencies and install them in Dynamo.
- Two new sample graphs are available: Random Family Instance Placement and Warnings – Isolate Elements.
- Images are available as outputs in Dynamo Player. The image will update when you make a change and re-run the graph. You can save the image from Player by right-clicking.
Documentation Efficiency
Place Multiple Views and Schedules on a Sheet
Save time when placing views and schedules on sheets. You can place multiple views and schedules on a sheet at the same time, either by dragging them onto the sheet in the drawing area or using the Place View command for views.
The Select View dialog contains a search functionality.
When dragging views (and schedules) onto the sheet, they are positioned tiled on the cursor to make selection and arrangement on the sheet easier.
Move Aligned to Sheet Enhancements
Move multiple elements between sheets while keeping their original positions. The ‘Move View Aligned to Sheet’ command has been generalized to ‘Move Aligned to Sheet’ and expanded to support moving the following sheet-based elements:
- Views
- Schedules
- Panel Schedules
- Detail Groups
- Annotation elements
- Detail elements
- Revision Clouds and Tags
- Images
Views, Schedules and Panel Schedules can be moved aligned between sheets directly from the Project Browser.
Views, Schedules, Panel Schedules and all additional sheet-based elements can be moved aligned together directly from the sheet drawing area too.
Open Sheet Directly From Drawing Area
The Open Sheet command allows you to open a sheet from the drawing area.
If you select multiple views from the Project Browser and use this Open sheet command, a confirmation dialog gets displayed with the number of sheets that will be opened.
Schedule Revision Clouds
More easily track and call out changes to document sets with a new Revision Clouds category available now for schedules. You can use fields from Views, Sheets and Revision Clouds to create your Revit schedule. This schedule may also contain schedules key and shared parameters.
Learn More about Autodesk Revit 2024
Check out the Autodesk Revit 2024 Help section for more information regarding the 2024 release.
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