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Written by Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, Ian Molloy, and Pawel Piechnik
The Revit team is thrilled to release Revit 2020, incorporating improvements in Revit 2019.1 and Revit 2019.2. The release year “2020” is epic, and Revit 2020 lives up to the name, reflecting both your requests submitted to the Revit Ideas page and also introducing new features and functionality. With Revit 2020 all disciplines will see new tools and enhancements that help you generate consistent, coordinated, and complete model-based building designs and documentation. As detailed in the public Revit Roadmap, our goal is to deliver start to finish capabilities that lead to improved project outcomes, and as product managers we’re proud to do so.
Multiple features new in Revit 2020 equip you to create the more accurate, detailed documentation that more closely represents design intent.
A great example that we’re particularly pleased to release are long-requested electrical design workflow improvements.
With Revit 2020 you can create more advanced wall geometry with the ability to draw elliptical walls and curtain walls.
These features and improvements new in Revit 2020 help connect design to fabrication with tools for higher fidelity modeling for detailing, fabrication and construction of concrete.
Steel connection improvements new in Revit 2020 will help engineers create more accurate model-based and documented design requirements for steel detailing and fabrication.
Several significant features new in Revit 2020 help you connect data and people to enable smoother collaboration and project delivery.
You’ve been waiting for this one: Revit 2020 supports PDF underlay which means now you can bring 2D data into Revit and snap to the PDF to model new elements based on it. This top voted Revit Idea enables connecting 2D data into BIM to support construction workflows.
And if you work in Sketchup, you’ll be happy to see that new in Revit 2020 is support for Sketchup 2018 import. Get a more efficient workflow including colored imports to connect early stage design done in Sketchup to Revit.
Coinciding with the Revit 2020 launch, we’re introducing the Cloud Model Upgrade service that fully automates upgrading all cloud models in a BIM 360 project with literally the click of one button. This is an incredible time-saver that simplifies and streamlines the move to the latest Revit version, and a real value-add for using Cloud Models. Learn more about cloud model upgrade in BIM 360 here.
For MEP, use the new export fabrication data function in the Revit Extension for Fabrication add-in to generate a CSV or TXT data file that can be imported into spreadsheet applications or other tools. Use this detailed fabrication data in various preconstruction and fabrication workflows, such as quantification, linear nesting, and procurement.
Your ease and productivity in working with the software and ability to conduct analysis that helps with design decisions is really important, and here Revit 2020 does not disappoint. These features new in Revit 2020 will help you decrease time spent on rote tasks and will contribute to your producing high-quality work.
In previous releases we’ve optimized Revit to work faster. Now you can get a faster response time when editing detailed steel connections in the 3D model with Revit 2020, which uses background processes to carry out these performance-intensive tasks. You can continue working on your Revit project while the background process runs.
Sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference. Here are a few:
Check out the full Revit 2020 release notes to see every update, including bug fixes.
What’s new in Revit 2020 YouTube Playlist
If you subscribe to Revit, you or your Admin will receive an emails to access Revit 2020 in your Autodesk Account once your product(s) are available for download.
Try Revit 2020 free for 30 days
Catch the product management team live in a free “What’s new in Revit 2020” webinar on May 8th at 10:0 a.m. Pacific. Sign up here.
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