Revit 2019 New Features
Revit 2019 introduces enhanced modeling capabilities for detailed steel structure design and the manufacturing of precast concrete. It also brings improvements to the primary and secondary hydraulic networks, enabling better modeling of complex pipeline systems.
Following the Revit Roadmap
The public Revit roadmap outlines our goal as product managers: to develop Revit to support your work throughout the entire project lifecycle. Our software development focuses on three key areas:
- Design: Enable you to efficiently create features that capture your design intent.
- Optimization: Improve Revit software performance to help you analyze, iterate, and make informed decisions more efficiently.
- Connect: Empower project teams by connecting workflows and promoting collaboration across the entire project lifecycle.
Design Enhancements
Revit 2019 introduces many new features that help you capture design intent more intuitively and efficiently. With improved control of view graphics, you can now work in a modern, immersive 3D environment that enhances communication and supports core tasks.
One of the top customer requests included in Revit 2019 is the addition of variables in filters, allowing you to create view filters with multiple rules using AND and OR conditions. This enables better control over view graphics.
New View Filter Features
- Add variables to view filters using “AND” and “OR” conditions.
Maximize Your Workspace with Tabbed Views and Multi-Monitor Support
Revit 2019 introduces tabbed views, providing a modern experience that lets you open multiple views simultaneously and manage them efficiently. You can arrange and organize views as you prefer and easily identify active views at a glance.
Additionally, you can now drag views from the main Revit window to secondary monitors, significantly expanding your options for workspace management.
New Multi-Monitor Support Features
- Tabbed views for better organization.
- Ability to drag views to auxiliary monitors.
Immersive 3D Modeling Experience
Revit 2019 makes 3D modeling easier with several new features. You can now display and edit levels directly in any 3D view—orthographic or perspective—reducing the need to switch back to 2D views for positioning.
The new full-screen unscaled perspective view offers a more realistic and immersive experience. You can easily switch between default 3D and perspective views and navigate smoothly using zoom, pan, and orbit commands.
Improvements to scope boxes provide consistent behavior of levels across 2D and 3D views, and range boxes can now be assigned to 3D views and sorted alphabetically.
New 3D Level and View Features
- Levels editable in 3D views.
- Full-screen unscaled perspective view.
- Enhanced scope box behavior.
Communicate Design Intent with Complex Fill Patterns and Realistic Rendering
Revit 2019 allows you to apply dual fill patterns—foreground and background—to materials and fill areas, facilitating more complex and visually rich graphic renderings. These can be used on fill areas, visibility/graphic display overrides, object-level overrides, and material projection and cropping settings.
Additionally, Revit now supports a physics-based appearance asset library, integrated with the Autodesk Raytracer rendering engine, to create high-quality, realistic renderings. This library includes materials such as carpets, ceilings, concrete, masonry units, fabric, leather, glass, metal, stone, and wood.
New Graphic and Rendering Features
- Dual fill patterns for enhanced material visualization.
- Physics-based asset library for realistic rendering.
Additional Design Tools
Revit 2019 introduces a railing split tool that allows you to better control railings generated from railing paths outside of sketch mode. With a single click, you can split railings into independent segments, each with their own path sketches, making railing modification easier.
Enhanced Railing Control
- Split railing elements outside sketch mode.
- Independent path sketches for split railings.
Expanded Regional Content
A new content library tailored for architects and engineers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH region) has been added. This specialized multidisciplinary workflow functionality optimizes Revit for German-speaking countries. For more details, visit the German BIM blog.
Optimization Improvements
Revit 2019 makes it easier and more effective to make informed design decisions by improving interaction and work efficiency.
Model More Complex Pipeline Networks
Earlier versions required detailed knowledge to configure connectors and input data for common pump scenarios. Revit 2019 enhances primary/secondary hydraulic networks to support complex pipeline configurations, including prefabricated systems, hydraulic bridges, and single tube main circuits. You can easily monitor flow rates and pressure drops for each pump component.
Engineers can now set up and analyze pumps operating in parallel within hydraulic networks, and calculate flow rates for both active and backup pumps.
New Hydraulic Network Features
- Support for prefabricated systems and hydraulic bridges.
- Parallel pump setup and analysis.
- Flow rate and pressure drop visualization.
Connect and Collaborate Across Disciplines
Revit 2019 strengthens multidisciplinary collaboration by connecting data and project teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Detailed Steel Structure Design and Fabrication
New editing tools let you easily modify structural frames and columns, and apply custom parametric notches for better fit of steel elements. Steel plate components—such as plates, bolts, anchors, shear studs, and welds—can now be placed directly in 3D models to connect structural parts.
This enhanced precision allows better integration with Advance Steel for detailing and manufacturing workflows. You can also create detailed engineering documents with standard and customized steel connections to communicate requirements and coordinate with drawings and manufacturers.
Steel Structure Engineering Enhancements
- Custom parametric notches for steel elements.
- 3D placement of steel plate components.
- Improved integration with Advance Steel.
- Detailed engineering documents for steel structures.
Dimensioning Curved Objects in Cross-Sectional Views
Dimensions can now accurately handle view-specific geometry, such as edges and points created by cutting planes. This enhances workflows for complex building forms, including bridges.
Improved Communication Between Modeling and Manufacturing
Free-form rebar can now be matched to existing rebar shape series or used to create new shape series based on geometry. This helps better communicate design intent and manufacturing details, with individual steel bar lengths and shape codes displayed in bending schedules.
New Rebar Features
- Shape matching for free-form steel bars.
- Enhanced rebar bending schedule details.
Upcoming Structural Prefabrication Extensions
Additional Revit 2019 features for manufacturing and prefabrication will be delivered through the Structural Prefabrication Extension, available via the Autodesk Desktop App starting May 2018.
This extension includes:
- An API for prefabrication automation, allowing contractors to insert automated workflows and create custom configurations for modeling, engineering drawings, and numbering.
- Automation for prefabricated beams and slabs, enabling segmentation into truss plates and reinforcement addition based on predefined rules.
- Integration with shop drawings and CAM output for seamless coordination from design to manufacturing.
Prefabrication Automation Features
- API support for custom prefabrication workflows.
- Automated beam and slab modeling with reinforcement.
- Coordination with manufacturing documentation.
Improved IFC4 Support
Revit 2019 enhances IFC import and export to comply with the latest IFC4 standards. Previously invalid elements can now be imported and exported cleanly, and imported IFC and Rhino elements can be copied and mirrored.
Integration with Autodesk BIM 360 Next Generation
Revit 2019 has been optimized to work with the new BIM 360 cloud platform, released April 9, 2018, which consolidates all project data into a common data environment. This platform connects stakeholders and workflows from design to construction, site to office, all in one solution.
For Revit users, Autodesk Collaboration has been rebranded as BIM 360 Design, a collaborative software for worksharing and design teams.
Summary: Design, Optimize, Connect
Revit 2019 delivers new and enhanced features that empower multidisciplinary teams to complete projects more efficiently. With a modern, immersive user experience, it continues to support efficient design and innovation.
You can model more designs in 3D views for an immersive design experience and enjoy improved workflows between design and detailed modeling. Revit 2019 helps you create better coordinated and more accurate steel and concrete models.
*The Structural Prefabrication Extension for Revit will be available via the Autodesk Desktop App in May 2018.
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