Subscription Advantage Pack for Revit

[Alan aka cadalot]

Well Boys and Girls following on from the video conference between Active Bloggers and the Revit Product team, I’ve just attended here are the highlights of what is going to be included in the Subscription Advantage Pack for Revit 2010.

Rather than releasing separate extensions like they have done in the past, Autodesk have bundled these all up as a complete release with a number of new features which is due October 22 (2 Days time if all goes well)

improvements include:-

Enable shortcuts for additional commands
Additional shortcut commands
A new UI to control the shortcuts
Conditional formatting in all products
DWG export improvements
Text formatting – from shortcuts
Find and replace text
Model lines to Detail lines and back
Link file improvements
API improvements
Autodesk Revit Model Review
Revit DBlink
Image modeler will now be included so you can create point cloud data from images and
export this to DWG and import this into Revit
Wood Wall Framing tool

Revit Architecture gets all the features they wanted from a Revit Structure Port:

Curved beams
Beam copping
Create Trusses
Tag beam systems
Slab directions and decking
Slanted columns
Split with Gap
Revit Structure advantage features will also include:-

Insulation tool
Placing 3d beams from geometry references in imported 3d drawings
Control beam length tolerance
Wood Framing
Interferences of Reinforcing bars
Bridge Design Modules
"A" ansd "W" User defined parameters to be available in Schedule Field
Placing 3D beams from geometry references in imported 3D drawings
Countrification Content for China, Russia and Italy
ADS now available in 64 bit
Structure Extensions

Wood Framing
Interference of Reinforcing Bars
Bridge Design Modules
Revit MEP advantages features will also include:-


Temporary dimensions in layout mode
MEP performance improvements
Content Countrification for China, Russia,UK, International
New Electrical content for the US to be available as download from Subsription Centre
Communications, Fire Safety, Security, Data, Nurse Call, Power.
So who was there in no particular order:-

Autodesk:- Wai Chu ~ Revit Structure Product Manager, Anthony Hauck ~ BIM Design Product Line Manager, Scott Latch ~ Revit Architecture Product Manager, Richard Taylor ~ Platform Feature Product Manager, David Pothier ~ Revit MEP Product Manager, Betsy Werra, Armundo Darling & David Mills


Bloggers:- David Harrington, Gregory Arkin, Jeffrey Pinheiro (aka The revit Kid), James Van, David Light, Richard Taylor, Robert Manna, Kelcey Lemon, Robin Capper and Yours Truly.

Sorry if I missed anyone.....

Great Event can't wait to get my grubby little hands on the software

For screen shots of new features see http://bimboom.blogspot.com/2009/10/...ck-photos.html

[polyporter]

When I try to use the truss icon it says I have none loaded, but how do I load something I don't have? Is there a library that gets installed or do I have to create them from scratch and then load in?

[varvasmartin]

You should have some trusses in your structural library, load one of them into your model first. Or you can always make your own truss faimily if you want to and then load it into your project.

[polyporter]

In our library steel has a couple trusses but wood has none except the ones from Autodesk seek are just families and are not compatible with the new truss feature. Do we need to download the Revit Structural library since we have Revit Architecture?