Work naturally, design with freedom, and improve your business with Autodesk® Revit® 8, the architectural design and documentation system that works the way you think. Purpose-built for building information modelling, Revit Building lets you change anything, anytime, anywhere—and then coordinates the change everywhere. Your design and documentation always stay coordinated, consistent, and complete.

Overview :

Work naturally, design with freedom, and improve your business with Autodesk® Revit®, the state-of-the-art building information modelling system that works the way you think.

Work the Way Architects Think About Buildings
With Autodesk Revit 8, you get back to what you love: designing buildings, without your software getting in the way. Work in any view that makes sense, quickly and easily making changes to major design elements. Create comprehensive design proposals in record time. See your ideas visualised on the fly with 3D views and instant shadows. You can even make late-stage changes without worrying about coordinating your plans, schedules, and construction documents. You design it; Revit documents it.

Increase Coordination and Quality
Ever feel like you spend too much time updating documents, correcting mistakes, and chasing down coordination errors? Not any more. With Autodesk RevitÕs parametric change management, you coordinate your entire project without effort. Enhance client communications and accelerate decision making. Get timely feedback on project design, scope, schedule, and budget, while eliminating the costly mistakes and wasted effort that come from coordinating documents by any other means.

Improve Your Business
Clients never expect less—they always want more. With Autodesk Revit's timesaving workflow, you can exceed their expectations by delivering more-complete documents and higher-quality designs. Win more business with clear and complete presentations. Integrate better with the other Autodesk® products already in your workflow. And streamline your processes—whether youÕre going it alone or collaborating with a large team. With Revit 8, youÕll keep your clients coming back again and again.

Autodesk Revit. ItÕs just a better way of working.

Features :

• Construction Documentation
  Minimise coordination mistakes with features like legends and revisions. Legends enable you to create symbolic legends without adding elements to a project. And since legends are fully associative, they always stay coordinated, no matter what changes you make. Revisions let you manage updates easily and track new documents from the moment they are issued.
• Autodesk DWF Composer and 3D Autodesk DWF Integration
  Autodesk® Revit® Building supports complete round-tripping of markups with Autodesk® DWFª Composer. Track changes easily by combining DWF Composer files with Revit Building navigation and revision management. You also can publish Revit Building models to 3D Autodesk® DWFª (Design Web Formatª) file format for high-impact communication of 3D design information.
• Autodesk Building Maker
  Access a better workflow for common conceptual and schematic tasks. Easily create expressive forms to produce an overall massing study. Then select faces to design walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. You can even use tools to extract important information such as gross area per floor.
• Autodesk Parametric Components
  Autodesk Parametric Components offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making, which is a powerful way of expressing design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Parametric Components can be used to generate the most elaborate assemblies—including intricate iterative, algorithmic, and behavioral characteristics—as well as the most elementary building parts. And now, they also enable you to edit previously loaded families, read into nested families, and schedule their components for construction documentation. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.
• Publish to Autodesk Buzzsaw
  Easily convert Autodesk Revit Building files to DWG or DWF format and upload them to Autodesk® Buzzsaw® project sites. Using default template assignments, you also can assign properties to a view and then set them back to their original state whenever you publish or print your project.
• Presentation Views
  Explain your design intent better using sectional perspectives, a flexible tool that complements other features in Autodesk Revit Building, including hidden-line and shaded views, vectorial shadows, capped section boxes, and silhouette edges.
• Interference Check
  Set parameters to scan your model for interference problems between elements.
• Import/Export Improvements
  Collaborate better with users of AutoCAD®-based products and other CAD applications by importing and exporting 3D solid geometry.
• Autodesk VIZ 2005 Interoperability Plug-in
  With Autodesk VIZ® 2005 interoperability plug-in, import DWG files produced in Autodesk Revit Building and use them to create stunning, photorealistic interior and exterior renderings.