The Future of Revit By Jason Boehning With the removal of the vertical versions of Revit and the addition of Dynamo, Revit is poised for a future of greatness. The choice between Revit and Revit LT is pretty straightforward. Do you need multiple people working on the same project? If yes, go with Revit. If no, take a look at Revit LT. In terms of functionality, it’s nice to have all the available features in one program. With the vertical versions, there have always been minor limitations with each one. Now, you don’t have to worry about a certain tool or feature that is only available in one of the verticals. This is important as teams seek to collaborate at a more intimate level. The performance of Revit 2017 has also been greatly enhanced. You should see significant improvements when navigating The only Revit products included around large models. You should also experience in the Autodesk 2017 releases fewer program crashes, or extended periods of are Revit and Revit LT. Say time between crashes. Autodesk has put a heavy goodbye to Revit Architecture, emphasis on improving the performance over the Revit Structure, and Revit MEP! past few years. As we move forward with Revit, I think this is a great thing and stability and performance are huge criteria for day- I would imagine that multi-disciplinary firms are to-day production. excited about this as well. So far this year in The Blast, my colleagues and Although Revit “one box” has been around I have been discussing the fact that Autodesk since the 2013 releases, there have likely been is moving to a subscription model. With Revit several licensing issues. The full version of Revit in particular, they have been developing a solid has only been available as part of a suite, and foundation for one singular program. The future there have been options for perpetual licenses of release cycles remains to be seen. Perpetual and subscriptions. So organizations looking licenses for suites will go away after July 31, 2016. to implement Revit have had to make several Subscriptions are the way of the future… decisions about what best fit their needs. Now, things are becoming much more simplified. www.cadlearning.com 13