
I feel that Autodesk does a lot of work to acquire other technologies (i.e. And I think the development and integration of features is a bit lacking. In my current job I don't really care since I use autocad minimally, but in my previous life where I had to do a lot of things that pushed those softwares to their limit, it got very frustrating.įor me personally, I don't like the subscription model, but that's kind of an industry issue. My experiences are with Autocad and Inventor. It's a common brand that people end up using and people find fault with whatever cad they use. Plant 3D, a plant design product, and Advance Steel have also been integrated so you can bring Advance Steel content into Plant 3D.I think it has a lot to do with ubiquity. We will keep Advance Steel as a separate product but WILL make it work seamlessly in the Revit environment.” Better Integrated The plan is to integrate (Advance Steel’s design tools) into Revit. Steel, cast-in-place concrete can all be done in Revit. “You no longer have to use (a separate design tool) for detailing. “Customers don’t want to work in a different environment when doing design and detailing,” said Jim Lynch, vice president of Autodesk’s building group. Calculating steel member end forces is now possibly in Revit 2016 thanks to the tools of Advance Steel. It also has linked model cropping and better support of the open-source IFC file format.

The 2016 version of Revit has new rendering engines that can deliver a rendered scene in minutes instead of hours under the old engine. Buildings are joining the digital world.” New Rendering Engines “By 2020 there will be 50 billion connected devices in use, with the number rising by 20 billion per year. “The means of production – how we think about and deliver buildings and infrastructure, both intellectually and physically, is changing,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president of Autodesk’s information modeling and product group. announced the release of its 2016 Design Suites at a launch event in Boston this week, offering more control over all aspects of the design-build process through a connected desktop and cloud user experience.įor structural steel, the main difference in the 2016 suite of software products is a much tighter integration of the Advance Steel, a 2013 acquisition, and the Revit 2016 3D building information modeling platform.
