What’s New in Revit Architecture 2011 and Availability

Well, the day has come where Autodesk 2011 information is all over the place.  Instead of just reposting a bunch of stuff that you’ve probably already seen, I’m going to instead point you to a great post that David Light put together on his blog - http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-new-in-revt-architecture-2011.html - about the new features in Revit Architecture 2011.  Great post David!

I’ll be posting more as the new release hits the “streets”, or in the Subscription Center site anyway.  And, the preliminary date for Revit Architecture to be available is April 8.  Take this lightly, as it could very well change.  I’ll post though when I get the official word.

Oh, and Autodesk has updated their website with the new information for 2011…

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=8479263#channels_What’sNew

This release looks to be one of the better releases, so I look forward to this year in Revit!

Splitting Walls with Sweeps and Reveals

Interesting thing came up today while working the support line.  Had a customer call in and say that he had split a wall to pull the ends apart for something, but now he needed to take the gap away and make the wall one again.  Problem was that when he dragged the end back together, it cleaned up but didn’t join the walls together to make one wall.  Since the wall was cleaning up the join, Disallow Join wasn’t turned on, so it was kind of a mystery.  When I grabbed the wall though, I noticed in the Ribbon the Edit Returns for sweeps was an option.  So as a test, we took the wall and edited the structure to remove the sweep and then tried the same thing…bingo, dragging the ends back together joined the walls into one again.

So, if you have a wall that has a sweep or reveal in/on the wall and you split it, it won’t go back to one wall if you try and drag the ends together.  It doesn’t matter if it’s an integral (within the wall type) or an applied (outside the wall type) sweep or reveal…it will act the same.  From the looks of it, Revit won’t join two sweeps or reveals back together into one continuous piece.  Yes, it’s still one sweep or reveal in/on the wall, but you will have a joint where the wall was split.

No More Box Shipments for 2011 Autodesk Software Upgrades

Autodesk has informed us that for the upcoming 2011 software, they are going to make the default method for product deliveries via the download method instead of shipping out actual boxes with CD’s/DVD’s for the majority of the Autodesk Subscription customers.  What this means is that subscription customers are going to be downloading any upgrades and not getting disk media.  This applies to Subscription customers in about 37 countries.

Autodesk will be informing Subscription customers via email probably early in Feb. of this change officially.  If you really do prefer getting your upgrade via a disk, it sounds like you will be able to do so via the Subscription Center by submitting a request.  But again, look for/reference the official policy change email from Autodesk coming up in February.

Hotfix - Revit Subscription Advantage Pack Structural Settings Dialog Missing

It’s been brought up by a few blogs, but in case you’ve missed it or don’t event care because you never access the Structural Settings…when you applied/installed the Subscription Advantage Pack the little arrow to get you into the Structural Settings went missing.  This hotfix will solve this problem.

You can get the hotfix HERE.  Make sure you download the correct hotfix as there is one for 32bit and 64bit.  And as always, be sure to read the Readme file and please make sure you have the Subscription Pack loaded before applying this hotfix…as it will do you no good if you don’t have the Subscription Pack installed.

Hotfix – Updated Modifying Walls May Crash Revit 2010

There has been an update to the Wall Crash Hotfix that was previously released, this time it’s been updated for users on Service Pack/Update 2 and users that have installed the Subscription Advantage Pack.

The Hotfix can be downloaded HERE.  Please make sure you download the appropriate version as there are separate downloads for Service Pack/Update 2 and the Subscription Advantage Pack.  If you aren’t sure what you have installed, check your build number.