AD Revit 2017 Portable by llexandro

Autodesk Revit 2017 Portable



Autodesk Revit is building information modeling software for architects,
structural engineers, MEP engineers, designers and contractors. It allows
users to design a building and structure and its components in 3D, annotate
the model with 2D drafting elements, and access building information from
the building model's database. Revit is 4D BIM capable with tools to plan
and track various stages in the building's lifecycle, from concept to
construction and later demolition.

Use and Implementation

Revit can be used as a very powerful collaboration tool between different
disciplines in the building design sphere. The different disciplines that
use Revit approach the program from unique perspectives. Each of these
perspectives is focused on completing that discipline's task. Companies
that adopt the software first examine the existing work flow process to
determine if such an elaborate collaboration tool is required.

Modeling

The Revit work environment allows users to manipulate whole buildings or
assemblies (in the project environment) or individual 3D shapes (in the
family editor environment). Modeling tools can be used with pre-made solid
objects or imported geometric models. However, Revit is not a NURBS
modeller and also lacks the ability to manipulate an object's individual
polygons except on some specific object types such as roofs, slabs and
terrain or in the massing environment.

There are many categories of objects ('families' in Revit terminology),
which divide into three groups:

System Families, such as walls, floors, roofs and ceilings which are built
inside a project

Loadable Families / Components, which are built with primitives
(extrusions, sweeps, etc.) separately from the project and loaded into a
project for use In-Place Families, which are built in-situ within a project
with the same toolset as loadable components

An experienced user can create realistic and accurate families ranging from
furniture to lighting fixtures, as well as import existing models from
other programs. Revit families can be created as parametric models with
dimensions and properties. This lets users modify a given component by
changing predefined parameters such as height, width or number in the case
of an array. In this way a family defines a geometry which is controlled by
parameters, each combination of parameters can be saved as a type, and each
occurrence (instance in Revit) of a type can also contain further
variations. For example, a swing door may be a Family. It may have types
describing different sizes, and the actual building model will have
instances of those types placed in walls where instance-based parameters
could specify the door hardware uniquely for each occurrence of the door.

Although Revit software comes with a range of families out of the box
(OOTB), they are limited, so users can find a need to build their own
families or buy them from online stores such as Plansort, Bimbandit or
Andekan. A number of websites offer families for free including Revitcity,
Augi and NationalBimlibrary.

In 2011 Dynamo was released in beta form allowing first glimpses of
directly programming the behavior of hosted components through a drag and
drop node interface. This is similar to the way the visual programming
language Grasshopper 3d works on objects in Rhinoceros 3D.

Rendering

When a user makes a building, model, or any other kind of object in Revit,
they may use Revit's rendering engine to make a more realistic image of
what is otherwise a very diagrammatic model. This is accomplished by either
using the premade model, wall, floor, etc., tools, or making her or his own
models, walls, materials, etc. Revit 2010 comes with a plethora of
predefined materials, each of which can be modified to the user's
desires.The user can also begin with a "Generic" material. With this, the
user can set the rotation, size, brightness, and intensity of textures,
gloss maps (also known as shinemaps), transparency maps, reflection maps,
oblique reflection maps, hole maps, and bump maps, as well as leaving the
map part out and just using the sliders for any one (or all or none) of the
aforementioned features of textures.

Cloud-based rendering with the experimental plug-in dubbed Project Neon,
located on Autodesk Labs is in the beta phases and allows for the user to
render their images through their Autodesk account instead of locally
through their own computers. Revit models may also be linked directly into
Autodesk 3ds Max (release 2013 and later) for more advanced rendering and
animation projects with much of their material and object information
maintained.

An addin available for Revit called Enscape3D allows live 3D rendering
walkthroughs and flyarounds. It permits live updates and also allows for
sound sources to be added so that acoustics may be tested.