Autodesk Updates Revit Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At its World Press Day event today, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced comprehensive updates to its Revit platform for building information modeling (BIM) software applications, and an expanded portfolio of solutions that address the building industry's evolving requirements for productivity and efficiency. The latest updates to the Revit platform help provide immediate competitive advantage, better coordination and quality, and increased support for sustainable design, all of which can lead to better performing buildings and higher profitability for architects, engineers and the extended building team.

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"BIM is accelerating the pace of change in the building industry as information-based modeling becomes the norm across the building design and construction disciplines," said Jay Bhatt, vice president, Autodesk AEC Solutions. "The newest versions of Revit-based applications will help our customers get even greater benefit from BIM and transform traditional design and industry processes with better decision-making information to reduce costly complexity, mistakes and delays."

Enhancements Take Advantage of BIM to Redefine Design Process

The roles of architects, engineers, and designers in the building process are changing with the increasingly global and complex nature of design, engineering and construction, a more demanding business climate and more widespread adoption of BIM. BIM is the creation and use of coordinated, consistent and computable information about a building project. Such information is crucial to more efficient design decision making, precise construction document production, performance predictions, cost estimations and construction planning, as well as managing and operating facilities. At the core of the Revit platform, Autodesk's purpose-built solution for BIM, a powerful parametric change engine automatically helps coordinate all changes across design, documentation and analyses. The Revit platform can keep information coordinated, up-to-date and accessible in an integrated digital environment, giving architects, engineers, builders and owners a clear overall vision of all their projects, as well as aiding their ability to make better decisions faster.

To even more closely align products with customer needs and requirements, Autodesk has modified the names of several Revit-based applications. Revit Architecture 2008 (formerly Revit Building), Revit Structure 2008 and Revit MEP 2008 (formerly Revit Systems) software products support new ways of working for architects, designers, drafters and engineers, helping them to predict, analyze and deliver better building performance.

Revit Architecture 2008

Purpose-built for building information modeling, Revit Architecture mirrors the real world of buildings, so architects and designers work holistically, rather than with isolated elements such as floor plans, sections and elevations. In addition to improvements to the many powerful features of this mature product, Revit Architecture 2008 also delivers:

  * Improved management of linked model information and improved DWF file     specification support.   * Google Earth Plug-In for publishing Revit models to Google Earth mapping     functionality.   * Better interoperability with Autodesk 3ds Max animation software to help     drive design consensus across project stakeholders.

Revit Architecture 2008 also delivers new features to enable sustainable design with analysis of materials, quantities, energy use and lighting. With enhanced gbXML (Green Building Extensible Markup Language) functionality, designers can quickly perform energy analysis and study building performance using tools such as those from Green Building Studio, Inc. and IES Ltd.

Revit Structure 2008