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Work naturally, design with freedom, and improve your business with Autodesk® Revit® Building 9 software, the state-of-the-art building design and documentation system that works the way you think. Purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), Revit Building mirrors the real world of architecture by letting you work on buildings holistically, rather than in terms of separate floor plans, sections, and elevations.

And with its parametric change technology, you can make any change, anytime, anywhere, and Revit Building automatically coordinates that change everywhere in your project—model views, drawing sheets, schedules, sections, and plans—you name it. Your design and documentation stay coordinated, consistent, and complete.

Works the Way You Think

With Autodesk Revit Building, you get back to what you love: designing buildings without your software getting in the way. Work in any view that makes sense, maintain the ability to design throughout different design phases, and quickly and easily make changes to major design elements. Create comprehensive design proposals in record time. See your ideas realized 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.

In Autodesk Revit Building every schedule, drawing sheet, 2D view, and 3D view is a direct presentation of information from the same underlying database. As you and your team work on the same building information, Autodesk Revit Building automatically coordinates changes across all other representations of the project.

Simply a better way of working.

Change it.Change everything.

Autodesk Revit Building MakerAccess a better workflow for common conceptual and schematic tasks. Easily create expressive forms to produce an overall massing study. Import conceptual massing from applications such as Form-Z, Rhino, Sketchup™ and AutoCAD® 2007, or other ACIS® or NURBS (nonuniform rational B-spline) based applications. Turn them into mass objects in Revit Building. 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.

Project BrowserProjectwide browser reduces the time needed to manage and navigate the various views, families, groups, renderings, and sheets of the project. Reorganize the project browser’s Views and Sheets sections to match your desired project organization.

Building Sections and ElevationsSections and elevations are computed on demand in a fraction of the time required to draw the sections by hand or with traditional computer-aided design (CAD). Work in any appropriate view of the building, including sections and elevations. As your project evolves, the Revit Building parametric change engine helps to ensure that your building sections and elevations are immediately available, up-to-date, and accurate.

Stacked Walls and Vertically Compound Walls This wall type is ideal for a wall whose vertical materiality and thickness vary. Revit Building enables you to stack different wall types and provides the ability to control them as one entity.

Parametric ComponentsParametric Components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed within Revit Building. They offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making as well as an opportunity to express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use Parametric Components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for the most elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.

Family EditorThe Family Editor is a graphical editing mode that requires no computer programming experience. Use this tool to easily create or customize just about anything, including doors, windows, and annotation types, and load them directly into your open project.

Revit Groups Parametric Modular Design, also known as Revit groups, offers better support for repeating units—ideal for designing specific building types such as offices and hotels.

To create more air-duct space above the fourth floor ballroom ceilings, we raised the fifth floor, which had a ripple effect through the entire 21-story building. Normally, that would have taken us weeks to coordinate. Using Autodesk Revit Building, we did it in two days.— Roy Pedersen, AIA Associate Principal The Stubbins Associates

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Rooms Add flexibility to your model by calculating precise area and room volumes. Enhanced capabilities include the consideration of rooms that extend through multiple floors. Easily identify and track rooms between schedules and model views, accelerating analysis and presentation. Gain added productivity when rooms automatically update with design changes.

Sun StudiesRevit Building sun studies enable designers to quickly analyze sun positions and solar effects while informing and influencing design strategy. Choose a specific date and time, or time frame, to generate a still or animated sun study.

Sun Studies Parametric Modular Design, also known as Revit groups, offer better support for repeating units—ideal for designing specific building types such as offices and hotels.

User-Defined Selection Filters Selection filters provide a visual method to call out components that share common properties. For example, in the following graphic, all fire-rated walls are blue.

Better Coordination and Quality

Ever feel like you spend too much time updating documents and correcting errors? Not any more. With Autodesk Revit Building’s parametric change management, you can coordinate your entire project effortlessly. Enhance client communications and accelerate decision making. Get timely feedback on project design, scope, schedule, and budget. And do it all while minimizing the costly mistakes and wasted effort that come from coordinating documents by any other means.

Bidirectional AssociativityA change anywhere is a change everywhere. All Revit Building model information is stored in one place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the model.

SchedulesSchedules are just another view of the Revit Building model. This capability dramatically reduces the time to create and edit schedules. Work in any appropriate view of the building, including schedules. A change to a schedule view is automatically reflected in every other view and vice versa. Functionality includes associative split-schedule sections and selectable design elements via schedule views, formulas, and filtering.

Autodesk Revit Building enables us to spend much more time on aesthetics. This opportunity is critical because the buildings we design will be around for 50 years and more. Revit Building gives us the time to think things out clearly—and put drawings together with confidence. — Anthony Cutri Principal Martinez + Cutri Corporation

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View, Query, and Schedule Linked ModelsQuery a linked model in real time. Create schedules that include elements from the active model, linked models, or both. In addition, annotations can be viewed and their visibility controlled from the active building model.

LegendsUse a legend view to create symbol legends without adding elements to a project. Display any model or system family element. Place a single legend view on many sheets. Legends are simply another view of the existing building model—always consistent, coordinated, and complete.

Revision TablesDocument and track sheet-specific or project-wide revisions with ease. Like all Revit Building views, revision clouds and tables are kept up-to-date and accurate, reflecting the current state of the building model.

Interference CheckUse interference checking to scan your model for collisions between elements.

Automatic Sheet Drawing ReferencesThis functionality means that no section, elevation, or callout references the wrong drawing or sheet, and all data and graphics, details, schedules, drawings, and sheets in the drawing set are current and coordinated.

Integrated Building MaterialsReal-world materials drive detailed plan, section, and elevation representations of building components to save documentation time. The integrated raytracing and radiosity engine uses the same materials, saving time and effort when producing visualizations.

Integrated Project PhasingProject phasing helps to document the construction lifecycle of a building. From predesign through to demolition, clearly annotate how building elements fit into a phased construction or demolition project schedule.

Site Terrain SurfacesProvides site context for the building and creates all ground lines and hatch patterns in sections and elevations, saving time and minimizing tedious hatching chores.

The entire work process of Autodesk Revit Building is well adapted to human thinking, thereby saving time and avoiding manual statistical calculations which are prone to costly errors. The time thus saved allows our architects to spend more time in coming up with creative designs. Autodesk Revit Building integrates the design process with the drawing process, thus finishing both processes simultaneously and drastically increasing productivity.— Song Li Director Wuhan Design Institute

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DetailingTake advantage of the extensive detail library and detailing tools provided with Revit Building 9. Presorted to align with the CSI format, detail libraries can be tailored to accommodate your office standards. Create, manage, and share your own detail library.

KeynotingBoost your efficiency by taking advantage of Revit Building keynotes. Keynoting streamlines the error-prone process of manually annotating construction documents. Revit Building automates the creation of keynote legends, thereby removing the burden of manually tracking component and material information. Populate modified keynote definitions throughout the project model with ease.

Material Takeoff Calculate detailed material quantities with the new Material Takeoff tool. Appropriate for applications such as sustainable design, and checking material quantities in cost estimates, Material Quantity Takeoff simplifies the tracking of material quantities. As your project evolves, the Revit Building parametric change engine helps to ensure that your material quantity takeoffs are always up-to-date.

Coordination Monitor Coordinate changes across models. Work smarter with engineers from other disciplines. Monitor changes to grids, levels, columns, walls, and slabs. Approve or reject changes and attach comments for review.

Better for Your Business

Clients never expect less—they always want more. With Autodesk Revit Building’s timesaving workflow, you 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 in your workflow. And streamline your processes—whether you’re going it alone or collaborating with a large team. With Revit Building, you keep your clients coming back again and again.

Autodesk Revit WorksharingAutodesk Revit Worksharing distributes the power of the Revit Building parametric building modeling environment across the project team. Worksharing provides a complete range of collaboration modes from entirely on-the-fly, simultaneous access to the shared model, through the formal division of the project into discrete shared units, to complete separation of project elements or systems into individually managed linked models. Worksharing allows the team to choose the best way to collaborate and interact based on their workflow and the project requirements.

Revit has the ability to adjust or revise current work whilst taking into account other aspects of the project. It gave us the ability to look ahead instantly to the potential overall impact of one change on the whole project or design exercise.— Jose Pedro Recio Principal RECIO+CASAS Architects

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Autodesk Design Review Autodesk Revit Building supports complete round-tripping of markups with Autodesk® Design Review software. Because the Design Review markup capabilities combine with Revit Building navigation and revision management capabilities, tracking changes is easy. There’s no need to reenter information. Revit Building supports publishing a model to 2D or 3D DWF™ format. This capability provides high-impact, dynamic communication of design information in a lightweight format. It’s great for including nontechnical participants in the project review process.

Autodesk Revit Structure and Revit Systems InteroperabilityUse a shared model or cross-linked models to coordinate with your structural engineering partners using Autodesk® Revit® Structure software, or with your MEP engineering partners using Autodesk® Revit® Systems software.

Design OptionsDevelop and study multiple design alternatives as an integrated piece of the larger building model. Present any combination of schemes to your client. Substitute each option into the model for visualization, quantification, and other data analysis to inform decision making.

Autodesk VIZ and Autodesk 3ds Max InteroperabilityUse Autodesk® VIZ or Autodesk® 3ds Max® software to import 3D DWG files produced in Revit Building, and create stunning photorealistic interior and exterior renderings.

Publish to Autodesk BuzzsawThe publish to Autodesk® Buzzsaw® functionality enables you to easily upload your file from Autodesk Revit Building to your Buzzsaw project site. Added functionality allows for automatic conversion of your Revit Building files to either DWG or DWF format. With the addition of default template assignments, you can assign properties to a view and set those properties back to their original state before publishing or printing your project.

Interface to Energy Analysis (gbXML) Export building information, including materials and room volumes, to green building extensible markup language (gbXML). Perform energy analysis and study building performance using web services from Green Building Studio, Inc.

Import/Export ACISCollaborate better with users of AutoCAD® software and other leading conceptual modeling applications by importing solid geometry.

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Revit Building is far more powerful and flexible, and solves tasks faster and more elegantly than any other CAD software we’ve seen.— Arve Solheim Manager Mesterhus

DWG, DWF, DXF, DGN(v7) SupportRevit Building imports, exports, and links your data with the industry’s best DWG compatibility. Native support for DWG, DWF, DXF, and DGN(v7) formats helps assure fully compatible data exchange for smooth coordination between team members, including engineering consultants.

Industry Foundation Class (IFC)Revit Building offers better support for information exchange. IFC import/export capability is based on the IAI’s IFC 2x2 data exchange standard.

Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Series—BuildingAutodesk® AutoCAD® Revit® Series—Building is a bundle consisting of Autodesk Revit Building and AutoCAD software with a single serial number and a single authorization code. This combination enables you to maintain your investment in technology and training, while offering the compe-titive advantage of building information modeling, and providing the flexibility to move to a new technology platform when you’re ready.

For more information about AutoCAD Revit Series—Building, visit www.autodesk.com/autocadrevitseries-building.

Purchase or Learn More For more information about Autodesk Revit Building 9 software, visitwww.autodesk.com/revitbuilding.

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