1. What’s New in Revit Arch 2013
Troy Mifsud
President - myCADD

2. MYCADD SERVICES OVERVIEW
Independent CADD\REVIT\BIM consulting group
Custom Revit Implementation, Training, Support Services
Project Consulting & BIM Management
Modeling services, Clash detection, 4D Timelining
Add-On Reseller-Bluebeam PDF and Revit Express Tools
4 Full-Time Staff – 10+ Years CADD\BIM Management experience
Troy Mifsud – President
B. Arch Tech Degree
Specialized in Healthcare Architecture
Lead Tech for National Autodesk Reseller
Started myCADD in 2002
Who is in the room – Never used revit. Just started. Long time user
Who is using 2012? 2013?

3. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Project templates on startup page
Improved View Templates
Custom View Types
Searchable Project Browser\Multi-Segment Grids
Dimensioning Improvements
Improved Transparency options
Improved Construction Parts
Saved Selection Sets
Stair and Railing Components

4. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Project templates on startup page
Adjust in Revit.ini
C:\Users\TROY\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013
Windows 7 – Parth to Revit.ini
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013

5. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Improved View Templates
Capture all your view properties (Scale, LOD, VG Overrides, View Range, etc.)
Captures Color Scheme
Auto-Update
Apply template through properties
Can’t override once applied

6. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Custom View Types
For Organizing Project Browser
Associate View Template to View Type
In the project browser you can categorize views by view type. Some view types, such as plans, weren’t specific enough so we made our own organization.

7. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Searchable Project Browser
Multi-Segment Grid Lines

8. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Dimensioning Improvements
New Diameter Dimension
Split Dimension
Formulas for Equality Display

9. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Improved Transparency options
View or Element Overrides

10. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Improved Construction Parts
Merge Parts
Exclude Parts
Intended to help builders to 4D timeline animations with Navisworks
Opens up opportunities for 3D detailing

11. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Stair Components
3 Stair Families
Assembled, Monolithic, Precast
Run Components
Straight, Spiral, Winder
Run Type Families – Monolithic or Non
Landing Components
Landing Type Families – Monolithic or not
Support Components
Stringer Families
Cut Mark Families
Single or Double Zigzag

12. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Railings Families
Continuous Rails – Top Rail, Handrail 1 and 2
Top Rail Families
Handrail Families
Non-Continuous Rails
Railings Don’t show at Coarse Detail

13. REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2013 WHAT’S NEW
Misc. Improvements
Building Design Suite – One Install
DWG., DGN., DWF Export\Import
Materials – Physical & Thermal Properties
Visual Style - Raytrace
Render in Cloud
Graphics Performance (Vista & Win7)
WARP instead of OpenGL
Anti-Aliasing
Massing – Divide Path & Repeat
Worksharing – Improved notifications
Double click wheel to zoom
Families – unattached voids – now cuts casework & furniture
Double click to edit family