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Revit 2017 New Features Do We Really Need More Kinds of Parameters in Revit? By Jason Boehning The new release of Revit gives users a great deal to look forward to, including game-changing powerful global parameters enhancements. updated behavior so that text will wrap, scale, and scroll as expected. Before, Dynamo was a separate installation that was an add-in. Now, it is just another tool integrated into the UI. And no worries— Dynamo can still be opened from inside of Revit (Manage ribbon) and behaves as it always has. Architectural Updates Revit 2017 is here! With the addition of the R2 updates the past two years, it seems like we are getting new features all the time now. When a release comes out, the first question is always, “What’s new?” So let me first point out some of the enhancements, and then I’m going to dig into specifics about the updates to global parameters. As far as architectural updates, depth cueing is a pretty cool enhancement you can use to better visualize section and elevation views. The energy analysis tools have also been improved—mainly the reorganization of the energy settings so that it is a little more clear as to which settings affect an energy simulation. Structural Updates On the structural side, you can now add generic connections and there are improvements to the rebar tools. There have been several enhancements to the rebar modeling capabilities Enhancements in Revit 2017 in Revit over the past couple of years. For 2017, some updates have been made to make rebar Note the Inclusion of Dynamo First of all, for multi-disciplinary enhancements that placement more user-friendly. You can also everyone will benefit from, there are improvements add rebar couplers to model and document to text notes and the addition of Dynamo inside of reinforcement connections. Revit. The improvements to text notes include the And on the MEP side, the fabrication tools have addition of a text editor, the ability to create multi- been enhanced. I think we all knew last year that the addition of the fabrication tools was just a start. level lists, more accurate text measurement, and 20 www.cadlearning.com