So the time has finally come! The NDA has been lifted and the features are flying… well at least from those of us who actually waited for the NDA to be lifted. Here today I’d like to “briefly” list some of the new features in Revit 2013 and then spend the next weeks days going over some of the more exciting ones!

• Administrative
• Push Revit.ini updates to multiple users
• Production
• Interoperability
• DGN V8 export added
• DGN export dialog updated
• Levels, Lines, Line Weights, Patterns, Texts and Fonts now mappable in the DGN export
• DGN export configurations now save to the project file and are now transferable project standards
• Import DGN design models
• DWF now exports phasing info
• Manual naming of multiple views/sheets now available in DWF export
• Views and Sheets now displayed alphabetically in export dialogs
• Revit text elements now assigned to text style in DWG exports
• Unreferenced Error fixed for images exported from Revit to DWG
• Hatch pattern scale fixed for DWG exports
• Transparency in Revit now exported as Object Property in DWG exports
• Ability to hide Scope Boxes, Unreferenced Views and Reference Planes now an option in DWG exports
• DWG export of 3D solids now a Revit.ini switch
• “Correct Slightly Off Axis Lines” added to DWG import options
• “Center to Center” positioning now uses center to center of the view on the X-Y plane
• Shared Coordinates now kept when importing DWGs
• IFC… let’s just say they improved it quite a bit!
• UI & Rendering
• Ribbon and Command naming more consistent across all platforms
• Command name alignment more consistent
• Commands in different verticals have icons which better reflect that discipline’s use of the command
• Ghost Surfaces and Transparent Override replaced by Surface Transparency Sliders
• WARP replaces OpenGL to allow Hardware Acceleration on all computer builds!!!
• Anti-Aliasing available in ALL views now with improved results and performance
• RPCs now visible in Realistic Visual Style
• Sky, Image or Background options now available in Elevation, Section, Isometric and Perspective 3D views
• Artificial Lights now glow in Realistic Visual Style along with Photographic Exposure option
• Ray Trace Visual Style mode added to view styles
• Revit
• Save and Load selections available in all platforms
• More filter control in the Visibility Graphics dialog categories lists
• Project Template library support added in File Locations
• View Templates now lockable to views as well as automatic updating of a view once a view template is assigned to a view
• View Template parameter now schedulable
• View Types are now manageable for nearly all types of views via type duplication and view lists
• Plumbing is now an option in the Discipline parameter for views
• Set default view discipline on creation of new views
• RCP underlay orientation now defaults to “Reflect Ceiling Plan” instead of “Plan”
• Color Schemes now configurable in view templates
• “Workset Global Visibility Settings” is now a Project Standards workset that is editable and able to be checked-out
• Arch
• Struct
• MEP
• Site tools added
• Revit (One Box)
• Access to tools and functionality of all Revit verticals
• Setting discipline during install will customize UI for that discipline
• Construction Modeling
• Merge parts into a single part
• Exclude parts to prevent scheduling and from showing up in views
• Restore parts brings excluded parts back into a part
• All faces of parts are now available for shape editing. Resettable
• Divide parts with parametric gaps
• Divide parts with custom profiles. New Category “Division Profiles”
• Parts inherit parameter values from their parent source
• Parts now Import/Export from/to IFC
• Assembly view creation has expanded dialog options
• Assembly view creation dialog remembers last settings per project and per user
• Assembly views can now be placed on normal sheets. Normal views can now be placed on Assembly sheets
• Assembly views allow rotation on sheet
• Assembly Views transferable to other Assemblies
• Assemblies now have Assembly Origins
• Assembly types
• Assembly export to IFC
• Materials
• Entire materials system concept reworked
• New materials interface.. completely new, not even remotely related to old interface
• New Structural data for materials
• New Thermal data for materials
• Savable Material Libraries