What’s New and Noteworthy
Everyone should know that (for now) the release cycle for Autodesk® Revit® full builds/releases is a yearly endeavor and this spring sees the latest installment of that effort by Autodesk.
The development is focused this time around on many under-the-hood improvements, a majority of “platform” items—those belonging to all “flavors” of Revit—as well as some really nice additional feature(s).
In an effort to not bury the lead let’s jump into the feature added for Revit that every architect should get to know:
Reveal Constraints
Doing exactly as it’s named, the Reveal Constraints addition is going to be as powerful as the previously released Temporary View Properties has proven to be… IMHO and in different ways of course ;)
Want to know why that exterior wall moves unexpectedly when a chair, across the building, on a different level (for instance) is moved? Reveal Constraints is going to prove a good first line of defense.
Reveal Constraints is not only going to be powerful for fixing bad modeling practices…err…uhh… (yeah, bad… there’s no way to sugar-coat such workflows), but this feature should also streamline the education of teams by giving more clear insight into what is truly going on in the models at a more granular level than before, by perhaps relieving the need to have “constraint” views set up.
It seems apparent that Autodesk and the Revit development teams are quite aware that the mantra “Don’t over-constrain the model,” while being a true and good (see: mandatory) practice, is too often not followed, if even understood by enough folks in AECO. Therefore, to have a method for more effectively visualizing what is constrained to what, as well as having a starting point to provide a path for potential solutions, this feature gets the BIM Manager three thumbs up (two was so 1900s).
