1	Autodesk Revit 6 What’s New in Autodesk^® Revit^® 6.0 and 6.1 Advanced Micro Systems, Inc. 271 Route 46 West, Bldg. A-105 \| Fairfield, NJ 07004 Phone (973) 882-8008 \| Fax (973) 882-0122 http://www.amsystems.com
2	Autodesk Revit 6.0 and 6.1 Top New Features For Competitive Advantage Design Options Structural features (6.1) Export to gbXML (6.1) For Working the way You Do Multi-user Element Borrowing Stair and Railing Improvements Ellipses Split-level Plan Regions Curved Column Grids One-pick dimension strings (6.1) Select elements from schedules (6.1) For Coordination and Quality Project Browser Customization Phase-aware Rooms Detail Views Schedule Formulas and Filtering Spell Checker For Profitability Export Improvements Save Family out from project Repeating Detail Tool Auto-create Curtain Grids AdLM Licensing
3	Competitive Advantage Faster, more complete design proposals for potential clients Better decision support and design communication with client through in-process visualization and analysis More satisfied clients leading to repeat work
4	Competitive Advantage Design Options Supports common architectural workflows Create alternate design schemes inside a single project file Study multiple schemes may in the context of the rest of the building Multiple options may be presented for design review Multi-user team can continue to work with no disruption Preferred option becomes part of the overall design
5	Competitive Advantage Structural Members Create Beams on selected grid lines Plate and Weld Symbols Moment Frame Connections Plan and Elevation Views Column Creation at Grid Intersections Structural Usage Parameters Available for ODBC Export Stick Symbol Graphics based on Usage
6	Competitive Advantage gbXML Export Use in 3^rd-Party Applications Energy and Heat Load Analysis Perform building energy simulation analyses Reduce Time Produce energy-efficient building designs Save Expense
7	Works the Way You Do Improved design collaboration within office Better design insight through in-process visualization and analysis Holistic solution for the building industry
8	Works the Way You Do Multi-user Element Borrowing Easier, more seamless multi-user work Brings element level ‘locking’ to Autodesk Revit Allows each team member to take parts of the building/drawings to perform work Allows each team member to ‘borrow’ elements from other team members Division of building/drawings does not need to be setup in advance Reduces time spent coordinating effort across the project team
9	Works the Way You Do Stair and Railings Improvements Railings can now be designed with more complex baluster patterns and panels Users can specify start/end/corner conditions and layout of the pattern Allows many more stair conditions to be designed Create Curved Ramps
10	Works the Way You Do Ellipse Tool You can now create a Full and Partial ellipse as part of the drawing tools Draw ellipses as detail or model lines and use them in sketches Ellipses may be used to create geometry in the family editor or in the project environment
11	Works the Way You Do Split-level Plan Regions Plan Regions allow the cut plane of a plan view to be raised or lowered in a certain area Create a Plan Region by sketching Change it’s View Range independently from the rest of the plan view Model geometry is cut at the correct height and displayed accordingly in the view
12	Works the Way You Do Curved Column Grids Column Grids may now be drawn using arcs Allows for the design and documentation of more project types Curved Grids represent themselves in plan, section and elevation with appropriate grid bubble and offsets
13	Works the Way You Do Select elements from schedules Pinpoint and highlight the location of elements in your design Easily identify family types Make bi-directional modifications Schedule Table Design Element
14	Works the Way You Do One-pick Dimensions Dimension Entire Wall Segments Openings and Intersecting Walls Control Appearance of Opening Dimension Center or Width Option
15	Coordination and Quality Eliminate coordination mistakes Eliminate rework, causes of wasted effort and materials, sources of mistakes, redundant inputs and other sources of human error More timely, better decision support on project design, scope, schedule, and budget Better coordinated documents lead to smoother construction
16	Coordination and Quality Project Browser Customization The Project Browser can now be customized and organized according to personal taste Views and Sheets can be grouped and filtered according to view properties Each user can organize the browser to suit the task at hand
17	Coordination and Quality Phase-aware Rooms Rooms are now computed by Phase Create room schedules for each phase of construction Color fill diagrams reflect rooms in each phase Very useful for move diagrams and client presentations
18	Coordination and Quality Detail Views Autodesk Revit now understands the common architectural conventions of Building Section, Wall Section and Detail View Create many detail types more easily Detail sections Plan details Head, jamb and sill details Roof details Easily located and managed from the Project Browser Easily control in which views detail markers appear.
19	Coordination and Quality Schedule Formulas and Filtering Formulas in schedules allow common calculations to be performed right in the schedule Plan efficiency calculations Percentage of overall, etc. Schedules can also be filtered by their properties (floor level, room, type, etc)
20	Coordination and Quality Spell Checker Autodesk Revit now includes an integrated spell-checker Check against the MS Office dictionary or the Revit dictionary Includes an Architectural dictionary for abbreviations Allows you to add words to a custom dictionary
21	Profitability Orders-of-magnitude reduction in production time from schematic design through construction documents Better documents mean fewer problems and less time spent in construction phase Perform additional services for more fee
22	Profitability ODBC and DWG Export Improvements Export to ODBC Now exports Shared Parameters to ODBC sources Allows exporting your own custom data out from the Revit model Export to DWG and DXF™ Autodesk Revit element IDs are exported as Xdata in DWG entities Categories and other vital data are also included in DWG Xdata Allows linking object data from an ODBC database to the graphic, geometric data in a DWG file
23	Profitability Save Family from Project Loaded families can now be saved out of the project as .RFA files Allows more flexible content management and easier re-use of existing content
24	Profitability Repeating Detail Tool To make detailing even easier in plan and sections. You can lay out objects like metal deck, brick and CMU simply by sketching lines As you sketch, Autodesk Revit draws the appropriate detail component based on layout rules you define. Repeating Details can be locked to other model geometry.
25	Profitability Auto-create Curtain Grids Curtain Wall grid divisions can now be added automatically as you draw or change the length of the wall Provides easier, faster design of large curtain wall buildings Improves performance in large walls with many common sized panels Allows designing the horizontal and vertical layouts in the wall type
26	Profitability AdLM Licensing Autodesk Revit now uses Autodesk’s standard licensing system Management of licenses is now handled like all your other Autodesk products (Autocad^® 2005, Autodesk^® Architectural Desktop 2005, etc.)