However, in case you are worried about all your previous Revit projects, the difference between a “standard” foot and a “US Survey” foot is very small and not likely to be noticeable on a building or single campus project. The surveyors in the office I work in say this is usually the only unit they use.
The unit US Survey Feet has been added as a length to better support civil coordinates from Civil 3D. Striped rows now show on sheets and print. When striped rows first came out for schedules, we could only see them on the screen. Although the parameter has always existed within the family editor, it did not work for several categories such as Furniture shown below. More tags work as expected when Rotate with component is checked in the family editor. Now we can simply disable a view filter without needing to remove it from the list using the new Enable Filter toggle. That was unfortunate as the various settings associated with that filter are lost (like visibility, transparency, line styles, etc.). Previously, if you wanted to see a view without the filters applied, e.g., perhaps a filter is used to make all the furniture dashed, you would have to remove it from the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog. Here, one instance of the same family is being cut while the other is not. The results, within a project, can be seen in the following image. Previously we had to use tricks like parametrically moving the void away from the geometry to prevent it from cutting.įYI: this only works on geometry within the family, not elements within the project that might be cut by the family. This can be mapped to a family parameter which can be used to control if the void cuts geometry or not. Within the family editor environment, Void elements have a new parameter Cuts Geometry.
In the following example, I linked page 31 from the multi-page PDF file of my Interior Design using Autodesk Revit 2021 textbook.
Additionally, instances may be placed from this dialog using the Place Instance command, and new images/PDF files can be added using the Add… command. There is also a Show button to locate an instance of the image/PDF within the project. Notice, in the image below, there are now two sets of Image and PDF commands, one for Import and another for Link.Īlong with this enhancement, the Manage Links dialog has been updated to include an Images tab which replaces the separate Manage Images dialog.
If the referenced file changes, it will automatically update in Revit when reloaded or the project is opened. Where we could only import an image or PDF file previously, Revit 2021 allows us to link raster image and PDF files from local or BIM 360 locations. In this article, we will look at the platform features and then the discipline-specific features: Architecture, MEP, and Structure.įirst, let’s look at the non-discipline specific features found in this new version of Revit. This article was first published in AECbytes ( and is being reprinted here with permission. I have prepared this overview to highlight many of the enhancements and new features found in this new version! I already have a good handle on all the new features, thanks to the fact that I update all six of my Revit textbooks every year, making sure they are ready for the academic fall semester. Back June 17th, 2020 Autodesk Revit 2021 is Here!