Overall, Revit 2017 is the fastest and best performing Revit yet.
With the improved performance, Revit now:
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Video & Screen Shot - Improved Software Performance
Dynamo visual programming platform is now fully integrated with Revit and no longer requires an additional download. It provides you with powerful scripting capability without any additional installation. It’s also accessible to non-programmers and programmers.
With Revit 2017, you can now have your complex geometric and data problems solved faster with a fully integrated visual programming interface.
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Video & Screen Shot - Built-in Dynamo
In Revit 2017, Schedules have been enhanced in a few areas. In order to simplify the reuse of schedules, you can create a schedule view template. Schedule view templates include parameters for Fields, Filter, Sorting/Grouping, Formatting, Appearance, and Phase Filter.
The Schedule Properties dialog has been improved to facilitate schedule creation and modification. You can also now display minimum values, maximum values, or both minimum and maximum values for calculations in columns.
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Annotation tags now allow calculated values and obey pin restrictions. You can also create a tag with a calculation in it and use it with any tag type. When you reposition an element, a pinned tag remains in place while its leader adjusts to accommodate the new position of the element.
A pinned tag does not relocate when the leader is turned on and off and when set to Free end. Additionally, the leader of a pinned tag does not change its shape when you switch from Free end to Attached end.
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Global parameters have been enhanced in Revit 2017. Now you can associate global parameters with a type property for an element and with instance or type project parameters.
You can also assign a global parameter to a group for better organization as well as move and sort global parameters within their assigned groups. Select the "Show Label in View" option to display the global parameter name with the dimension value and better understand how and where global parameters are used in a model.
You can also filter a schedule by global parameter association to help find elements that have a global parameter association or are missing an association. And last but not least, you can transfer global parameters between projects.
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Autodesk Raytracer is now the only visualization engine in Revit. It is based on physically more accurate lights, materials, and reflected light and enables great visualization with better performance.
Raytracer greatly improves performance, as there is a notable increase in speed when using Raytracer. You get more physically based rendering results that are more accurate.
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Video & Screen Shot - Enhanced Autodesk Raytracer
Tangency Locks allows you to place tangency locks to sketch lines, and works when in the sketch editor and family editor. It works anytime you are sketching a shape (like a floor, ceiling, etc.) It works when creating geometry in the family editor. However, it does not work for model lines or reference lines.
You can lock the various lines when sketching to avoid accidentally moving them.
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FormIt 360 Converter is now provided with the Revit installation, which gives you the ability to continue to work easily with your FormIt designs in Revit.
You convert FormIt 360 files into an open Revit file from within Revit. You can also convert SketchUp SKP files for use within FormIt, Revit RFA files for use within FormIt, and RFAs used in FormIt, back into the original RFA in Revit for a fully integrated BIM workflow.
You can launch FormIt 360 from within the application.
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The new Text Editor and layout engine gives you “What You See Is What You Get” editing and new features to help communicate your design.
You can edit in canvas and have text set to uppercase, subscript, superscript. You can add spaces between bulleted points, multi-level lists, indenting, undenting, and incrementing numbers.
The way text in AutoCAD is measured is now the same for Revit text, enabling better import and export to AutoCAD. When upgrading, Text notes will change for certain fonts due to text sizing, line spacing, or wrapping.
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Depth Cueing lets you add depth to elevations and sections to create stunning visuals to better communicate your design.
This functionality works with shadows on, realistic, hidden lines, sketchy lines, ambient shadows, anti-aliasing and more. It works in any view effect. When you turn it on, you can control where the depth starts, stops, and the limits.
You have control over the effect in order to meet your needs. Designed for Architects, depth cueing adds pop to your elevations and sections in either architecture or coordination views.
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