Revit Architecture 2009 UPDATE

Revit Architecture 2009—English

IMPORTANT

This download is the most recent build for Revit^® Architecture 2009 software as a standalone product and as part of AutoCAD^® Revit^® Architecture^® Suite 2009.

It is available to users who have validly purchased a license to Revit Architecture 2009 or AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2009, and is subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that appears during installation.

For a list of improvements, please download the Revit Architecture 2009 Web Update Enhancement List:

Web Update Enhancement List (pdf)
Note: Build Number can be found in the Web Update Enhancement List

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Web Update #3 Service Pack – November 2008

Important Note:
Web Update #3 is not a full install; rather it is using Service Pack technology similar to AutoCAD^® based products. Prior to installing the Web Update #3 Service pack, please verify that you have already installed a previous build of Revit Architecture 2009. The full install of Revit Architecture 2009 (32-bit) Web Update #1 is available below. The full install of Revit Architecture 2009 (64-bit) can be downloaded from the Subscription Center.

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Service Pack Readme (pdf).

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Revit Architecture 2009 Web Update #3 Service Pack (32-bit) (exe - 128 MB)

Revit Architecture 2009 Web Update #3 Service Pack (64-bit) (exe - 54 Mb)

Notes:

The service pack contains changes from all previous Web Updates.

The service pack can be applied to both the standalone and Suite versions of Revit Architecture 2009.

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Web Update #1 Full Install – June 2008

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Before downloading and installing:

• Read this first (pdf).
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Notes

• It is highly recommended that you reinstall the content when installing the Web Update due to changes in the rendering library and other pieces of content.
• Downloads are applicable only to licenses under subscription, worldwide.
• Files saved in new releases of this product are not compatible with previous releases. However, files saved in the same release are compatible across different build numbers.
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6 is required.
• For problems downloading or installing Revit Architecture 2009 and for general information or questions, contact Autodesk Revit Support (Autodesk^® Subscription login required).

Related Information

• Installation Instructions (pdf)
• Known Issues (pdf)
• Feature Summary (pdf)
• System Requirements
• Templates & Libraries
• Autodesk Network License Manager (zip)

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Previous Release

Download or get more information about a previous release.

• Revit® Architecture 2008
• Autodesk® Revit® Building 9.1
• Autodesk® Revit® Building 9
• Autodesk® Revit® Building 8.1

Autodesk Mental Ray functions

Functionality

mental ray offers an optimal powerful implementation of all the features traditionally expected of photorealistic rendering software, together with unique functionality not found in any other rendering software. The following sections describe rendering features, color handling and shading, and geometry processing capabilities in mental ray.

Rendering

Ray Tracing

The software is based on a ray tracing architecture, which allows for the flexible implementation of any

imaginable phenomena and lighting effects, including reflections, refractions, global illumination, and subsurface scattering.

It uses an advanced BSP tree (more precisely a kd-tree) algorithm to speed up the ray intersection calculations. This structure is built on demand and cached. It can handle very large data sets and supports scalable multithreading.

Rasterizer

Besides ray tracing, Autodesk Mental Ray also offers other rendering methods for situations where desired results can be produced much more efficiently.

A rasterizer is available for efficient first-hit rendering of directly visible objects and transparency. By separating visibility sampling and shading, high quality anti-aliasing can be provided while performing fewer of the expensive shading calculations (e.g. once per pixel). Motion blur can be computed with a relatively small performance impact, by shading once in the motion interval and carry this result along the motion path. This method is well suited e.g. for high quality cinematographic rendering.

A second scanline first-hit rendering method is also available, which is sometimes faster on smaller scenes with relatively simple shading.

Global Illumination

Global illumination is the simulation of all light inter-reflection effects in a scene. This includes indirect illumination caused by the scattering of light, and effects such as caustics and color bleeding: if a red table is next to a white wall, the white wall gets a reddish tint under typical lighting conditions. Without this reddish tint the image would look fake, even though it might be hard to point out precisely why. Global illumination effects are subtle but essential to true photorealism.

Simulation of global illumination has at least two distinct uses:

_ Physically accurate simulation of the illumination in an environment, for example the light

distribution inside an office building .

mental ray offers two fundamental approaches to compute global illumination which can be used together.They differ in the way lighting information is traced through the scene, either starting from the light (photon mapping) or starting from the eye (final gathering).
The photon mapping technique emits small energy particles (photons) from light sources in a preprocess, traces their trajectories through the scene including reflections, refractions, and interactions with participating media, and stores the final energy distribution in a specialized 3d data structure called photon map.

In the final rendering phase this global illumination contribution is added by collecting the color intensities of nearby photons.
Photon mapping supports caustics (e.g. sun light patterns on the ground of a swimming pool), participating media (e.g. shafts of light in a dusty room), color bleeding, arbitrarily many light bounces, as well as advanced material properties like glossy reflections.
Photon maps can be pre-computed and saved on disk for later reuse in subsequent renderings. Photon merging allows to reduce memory consumption for photon storage in scenes where a high number of photons must be shot to provide sufficient illumination.
The nal gathering technique computes global illumination by tracing rays as usual from a shading point into the scene to catch light.

In contrast to collecting the contribution from a distinct number of light sources it sends out many more rays into all possible directions of the hemisphere to capture illumination from other objects that interact with light (indirect lighting) like diffuse reflections (diffuse materials spread incoming light into many directions). This exact nal gathering mode is physically accurate but also expensive to compute.
mental ray provides an efficient technique to reduce the render time dramatically while retaining the final image quality as much as possible. The full final gather tracing is performed only on distinct and well selected surface points. All other surface points quickly interpolate the global illumination contribution from nearby final gather points. The final gather points are selected according to the local surface and illumination variation and their impact on final image quality. Several final gathering modes are provided which are optimized for ease of use, fly-through animations through static environments, and full user control, respectively.
The final gather data can also be saved on disk, and refined and re-used for subsequent renderings. Final gathering gives particularly good results for diffuse surfaces with a single light scattering bounce only.

Further variations of the base algorithms provide simplified and therefore more efficient applications for global illumination effects like contact shadows (ambient occlusion), and importance-driven photon mapping (importons).

Why Mental Ray in Revit 2009

Intro

Autodesk Mental Ray 􀀀c generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. It achieves scalable performance through the exploitation of parallelism both on multiprocessor machines and across networks of machines. Its generality allows for a wide range of applications, including the creation of state of the art visual effects for movies, full length feature animations, visualization of automotive and other virtual models with accurate lighting, physically correct simulation of architectural design, as well as content creation for games.

Autodesk Mental Ray is designed for the efficient rendering of images on multi-processor machines and networks of machines, as well as for a tight but flexible integration as a software library in 3D content creation and CAD systems.

Autodesk Mental Ray comes with a number of standard shader packages, many of them in source code. They range rom shaders for basic illumination tasks and phenomenon construction to comprehensive and optimized packages for common applications, like shaders for typical materials used in architecture and design, subsurface scattering and car paint shaders, as well as physical sun and sky lighting.

Autodesk Mental Ray is used in a wide range of applications. This section lists a number of typical applications:

CAD Visualization

Autodesk Mental Ray provides photorealistic design visualization of product data in CAD and styling systems.
The comprehensive support for trimmed NURBS surfaces, surface connectivity, and hierarchical
subdivision surfaces offers the geometry handling capabilities required by CAD systems. Various
controllable approximation settings provide any desirable geometric accuracy. Large geometric quantities
can be handled efficiently, including support for heavy instancing of objects.

The ray tracing capabilities allow realistic views of the model in arbitrary surroundings, for example using
car paint shaders and HDR images to visualize the realistic appearance of a car body in a given environment.

Visual Effects

Autodesk Mental Ray is used for the creation of the most demanding visual effects in the movie industry. With its
visual quality, scalability, and complete ability to customize all aspects of shading and visual elements, it
offers all functionalities required for the creation of any imaginable visual effect.

Hundreds of thousands of realistic virtual characters can be included in a single final frame using mental
ray’s procedural, on demand, object creation features. 3D motion blur can be computed efficiently using

the rasterizer rendering mode for fast, high quality first-hit rendering. This can be combined with global
illumination and ray tracing simulations to achieve true virtual cinematography.

Full support for high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) and arbitrarily many named frame buffers provide

the basis for seamless combination of rendered elements with live action shots.

Feature Animation

Autodesk Mental Ray is equally well suited for the creation of full length feature animations. Any particular look can be achieved by using custom shader plug-in.

Special geometric primitives and rendering modes for hair and fur, as well as advanced rendering effects
like subsurface scattering for simulation of skin, allow to create and render visually compelling characters
efficiently.

Game Creation

Autodesk Mental Ray is a powerful tool to create realistic lighting and shading setups for games. Using the light
mapping features of mental ray, very complex and physically correct shading and lighting calculations can
be performed in mental ray, and the resulting information is output to texture maps or per-vertex color
data which are then used in the game engine ("texture baking").

Architectural Design

The global illumination features in Autodesk Mental Ray provide physically correct lighting simulations, and enable the measurement of the actual lighting intensities in a building in a given lighting environment. Visualizations
of architectural designs are effectively indistinguishable from photographs due to the correct simulation
of direct and indirect illumination.

Lighting Design

Light profiles, spectral rendering with more accurate color representations based on a larger number of
light frequency samples, and color spaces which are visually more precise than RGB, can be used to
correctly simulate the optical properties of virtual models.

Visualization

Autodesk Mental Ray can equally well be exploited in other visualization applications. Support for volumetric effects and shading can be applied e.g. in fluid flow, seismic data, or medical visualization.

Architecture

Dataflow Architecture

The architecture of Autodesk Mental Ray is founded on a network transparent scene and rendering database. Any data will be produced only when accessed whenever possible, resulting in scene data to be loaded or temporary data to be computed on demand only. This leads to most efficient memory usage, and together with builtin disk caching and garbage collection allows Autodesk Mental Ray to render scenes with great complexity even on machines with a small amount of memory.

A job system is operating on top of the database. It manages the dependencies between jobs and database
elements, and schedules creation, transport, and destruction of all data. Jobs can include rendered image
tiles as well as geometry tessellations, but also arbitrary other data like custom user data.

Scene data may be changed between rendering of multiple frames of an animation. Incremental changes
provide a way to perform updates just on the animated elements but re-using static components without

Introduction— Architecture

the need for re-computations. This accelerates animations as much as possible and can be used to render
successive images at interactive frame rates.

Parallelism

The efficient support for simultaneous rendering on multiple processors and multiple hosts in a network
is based on sophisticated, advanced parallel rendering algorithms in mental ray.

Multithreading takes full advantage of multiple processors, hyperthreaded, and multi-core processors
available in a system, without requiring any additional licenses. Due to the thread-safe database and the

job system distributing jobs to multiple threads, the performance of Autodesk Mental Ray scales with the number of processors available.

Network parallelism allows the use of additional machines as rendering slaves. Rendering jobs are
distributed to the machines, and scene and rendering database elements are transferred on demand, achieving
scalable performance over networks of machines as well.

Satellites are available as an alternative mode of network parallel rendering in many OEM applications that
contain mental ray. A number of rendering slaves (satellites) are made available to the machine running the

application without requiring additional licenses, which effectively increases the rendering performance of

the interactive application as well as the throughput in the batch rendering mode of the application.

Dependent Views

There is an exception to the rule that annotations appear in only one view. With
dependent views, annotations are shared between views, so that if you change the annotation in one view, it affects other views
as well. This feature was added in the 2008 release.

Annotation Categories

Annotation object categories include all the annotations, symbols, and descriptive data added to a
view to describe the building. These are listed in the second tab of the Object Styles dialog. Most
annotations are view-specific 2D elements and appear only in the view in which they were created.
Examples include dimensions, tags, callouts, and text notes. Annotations such as sections, levels,
and grids are 2D graphics, but they have 3D characteristics and appear in other views. These elements
(levels, grids, sections) appear in many views thanks to BIM application functionality. Levels,
grids, and section marks extend throughout the model and can be edited from multiple views. You
don’t need to draw these elements in each view as separate, disconnected graphics. With Revit,
they’re truly 3D annotations. The only caveat to this statement is that they don’t appear in 3D views.

Model Categories

Model Object categories, the first tab in the Object Styles dialog, includes all the real-world types
of objects typically found in buildings. These object categories include the usual elements such as
walls, floors, roofs, and furniture, along with other categories that makes sense in an architectural
project. For 2D elements that represent real-world objects, the category
Detail Element
is provided.
Examples of 2D detail elements are insulation and detail components that represent real objects
but are represented only in detail views. In Revit, these objects are not modeled as 3D elements, but
added as 2D representations, as shown in Figure 2.4. For elements that don’t fit into any obvious category, there is the
Generic Models
category. This
can be used for objects such as fireplaces, theater stages, and other specific design elements. If you’re not sure exactly what you’re making, you can always create it as a generic element. If you later decide that any element needs to be recategorized, that’s not a problem—you can reassign the element to a new category at any point.
With the exception of the detail elements, model elements appear by default in all views. In other words, if you draw a wall in plan, it will show up in any other applicable plans, elevations,
sections, and 3D views. Remember, you’re working on a single building model—all views in Revit are just different ways to look at the model. Detail components, on the other hand, appear only in the view in which they were placed. As we’ll discuss in more detail shortly, you can turn on and off the visibility of any category or
element, in any view. For example, say you’ve placed furniture in your model. The furniture is 3D geometry and will be visible by default in many views. Revit lets you turn off the visibility of the furniture in one floor plan while leaving it visible in another floor plan. The furniture isn’t deleted; it’s made visible or not depending on the information you need to convey in particular drawings. Because model elements appear in all other views, two types of graphic representation are defined for each category: projection and cut, as shown in the Object Styles dialog in Figure 2.2. The projection graphics define the graphics for the element in levation, 3D views, or any other view
where the element isn’t being cut by the view. The cut graphics define how the element will look when cut by sections and plan views. Typically, the section cut graphic is bolder than the projection lines, to emphasize that the element is being cut by the view plane. (Surface and cut patterns are always drawn with line weight 1 and can’t be made thicker.) Figure 2.5 shows how wall line weight differs between the cut and projection. Also notice that patterns are applied to the walls and floors. Patterns can be added to give additional graphic representation to a material and are always drawn with a thin line weight.Categories also make it easy to interchange elements. You can swap out elements of the same category with a few clicks of the mouse. This streamlines the process of editing the model by limiting choices to those that make sense. For example, you can swap a lighting fixture with another lighting fixture by selecting the element and then seeing what other lighting fixtures are available in the Type Selector. Choosing another type swaps out the type instantly. Revit is smart about this interchange—it offers only different types of the same category of elements. For example, when you select a door, you don’t get a list of plumbing fixtures to swap it with; you get a list of other door families.

Working with Revit Parametric Elements

Working with Revit Parametric Elements

Every element in Revit is considered a
family, and each family belongs to a category. Figure 2.1
shows the basic Revit object model. In this section, we’ll discuss how Revit organizes all these families into categories and why this makes sense from a work flow and consistency point of view.Then, we’ll look at the different types of families,the principles of their behavior, and how to create them.

Revit uses a classification system to organize all the families (content) in the model. This system of organization is based specifically on the AEC industry and is set up to help manage relationships between classes of elements as well as the graphical representation for each class. To see all the categories available in a Revit Project, go to Settings Object Styles (see Figure 2.2).

At the core of this organization is a fixed list of categories
to which all elements ultimately belong.
Although this may seem stringent, it works well and will help you maintain a consistent graphical
representation across your projects. As you can see, every element belongs to a category, and that category is either a model or an annotation object. In addition, each element is either 2D or 3D in nature. Whenever the mouse hovers over an element,a tool tip appears and tells you what kind of element it is and what category it belongs to (see Figure 2.3). If you aren’t working in a work sharing (multiuser) project, then the first bit of text in the tool tip tells you what category the element belongs to. If you’re in a work sharing project, the category is preceded by the name of the work set containing the element. (See Chapter 20 for more detail on work sharing.) The next part of a tool tip tells you the family name, and then comes the family type. So, the tooltip follows this logic:

Revit Fundamentals

Revit Fundamentals

The power of a database is that information can be easily accessed, managed, and updated. By
using a fixed categorization structure in Revit, you’re able to quickly identify elements, control
their visibility and graphics, and generate reports based on this information. The data is highly
structured, but you have tremendous liberty when it comes to the representation of that data. This
flexibility lets you have as many views as you want and/or need to convey your design intent.
Every view is a filtered, graphical representation of an underlying database, and you’re free to
make as many views as you deem necessary.
The sooner you embrace this concept and start exploring the opportunities it presents, the better.
If you can’t get your drawing to look just right, chances are you just haven’t dug deep enough.
Throughout this book, we’ll give you more suggestions and techniques that we hope will inspire
you to go that extra mile and start thinking outside the box.
In this chapter, you’ll learn the fundamental principles of Revit parametric elements and how
data is organized in Revit. You’ll also get an overview of the graphical user interface and walk
through the basics of selection and object manipulation.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to do the following:
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Work with and understand Revit parametric elements
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Use the Revit user interface
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Use the Project Browser
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Navigate views and view properties

Where Can You Go From Here?

Building Information Modeling is a revolutionary approach to the design, analysis, and documentation
of buildings that takes full advantage of modern-day computational technology. At its core, BIM
manages the flow of information throughout the lifecycle of a building-design process, allowing you
to experience the building before it is built. Using BIM from early conceptual design through construction
documentation and into construction administration and beyond, it’s possible to better predict,
plan, and execute the complex task of creating architecture to meet today’s demanding requirements.
The flow of information in this new world consists of virtually all imagined inputs that go into
a building design: the gross area of the building; its impact on the environment; the number of windows,
doors, and plumbing fixtures; the cost of materials; the size of heating and cooling equipment;
you name it. All this information is stored in a digital model—a virtual 3D database chock
full of information primed for extraction, analysis, and representation. The input turns into output
in the form of coordinated document sets, which can be shared across multiple disciplines and
which serve as a centralized design-management tool for an entire project.The AEC industry is at the cusp of a major shift in technology and the resulting impact on building
and, by extension, the greater environment will be revolutionary. We can no longer build without
considering the impact of the building, without considering the building as part of a larger network
of interconnected flows. The promise of BIM lies in the ability to visualize and understand how a
building participates in these complex networks: how it performs, how it will age, and how it will
accommodate and adapt to dynamic economic and spatial requirements. This software, along with
a change in process, can change the way you do business, structure your office, present ideas to clients,
win new jobs, and ultimately build a new architecture.
Armed with the skills you’ll develop in this book, you’ll be able to take Revit to the edges of creative
expression and maybe create something as ambitious as the skyscraper in Figure 1.9.

Revit Is Relatively New Technology

Revit is the newest and most technologically advanced BIM application, and it’s under constant
development. What began as a single tool for architects has expanded to include structural and
mechanical engineers. The evolution of the Revit software platform will continue. As with any new
technology, you’ll run into problems, get flustered, and no doubt pull out some hair. That said,
no other application on the market delivers the advantages of BIM as well as Revit does. Consider
this for a moment: Most other architectural products in today’s market are based on technology
that is 20+ years old, whereas Revit is a new technology that was designed from the ground up as
a BIM tool to specifically address the AEC industry. From its inception, Revit has had the goal of
improving design communication, coordination, and change management. It has a patented parametric
change engine that is unmatched in sophistication. It’s also the leading software package in
the international market. Revit is not the only BIM package out there, but we feel it offers the most
holistic approach.
As you complete more projects with Revit, you’ll begin to understand some of its advanced
functionality. In this book, we’ll delve into advanced concepts and guide you through some really
cool features. We’ll touch on the fact that Revit is now a technological platform that supports architectural,
structural, and mechanical disciplines. The fact that you can share a model with your
structural and mechanical, engineering, and plumbing (MEP) engineers is an exciting new prospect,
and one that will continue to drive changes in process.

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Revit Architecture 2009 New Features Announcement

Revit Architecture 2009 Features Announced

Revit® Architecture 2009 features were officially announced today at Autodesk World Press Day 2008.

This is a short list of Revit® Architecture 2009 Feature Improvements and Enhancements

Wish List Projects

Mirror Project Tools: Link Scale to Display, Create Custom Scales, Create Custom Displays

View Templates: A new dialog box features an easier-to-use tool providing users the ability to pick and choose which view properties they apply from the view template

Quality Rendering and Performance

Mental Ray® Rendering, Material Libraries, Physically Accurate Lighting, Photometric Lights, Real Sun and Sky, Optimized Rendering Solution

New Mass Geometry for Complex Forms

Swept Blend: This new type of mass geometry can be combined with the existing parametric capabilities of Revit Architecture 2009 to create new forms based on algorithmic design variations. Extending the range of what is achievable during conceptual design and family creation, swept blend functionality offers more opportunity to express complex forms.

New Revit Start Up

Revit® Architecture 2009 displays a graphical representation of recent projects and recent families that have been opened by the user. This allows quick visual access to recently used files as well as faster Revit Architecture 2009 start-up.

New Autodesk 3D UI

The Autodesk 3D UI provides an intuitive, standardized navigation experience across multiple Autodesk 3D design products. I find it similar in appearance and functionality to the current system in the DWF Viewer or Design Review software.

Data/File Exchange

FBX export increases interoperability between Revit Architecture 2009 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software

New DWG enhancements make collaborating with those relying on DWG-based workflows easier

Dimension Improvements/Enhancements

Dimension to Intersections, Dimension to Arc Centers, Dimension Text Formatting

Text Overrides: Replace Dimension with Text, Add Text Above, Below, Prefix, or Suffix

Room Tag Improvements

Tag All Not Tagged, Move Tag When Room is Relocated, Rotate Room Tags, Align to Rotated Dependent View

Room Enhancements

Room Behavior in Sections: Graphical Display, Selecting Rooms, Adjusting Vertical Limits and Color Fills

Plotting Enhancements

New plotting improvements allow drawings that rely on Hidden Line Removals (e.g. many Floor Plans, elevations, etc) in Revit Architecture 2009 print faster.

Revision Enhancements

Sequences: Revision Order Numbers, Letters, or both, New “Issued By” Field, Display Revisions on Sheet

Layout: Build Order Top Down or Bottom Up, Rotate Schedule on Sheet, Fixed or Dynamic Sizing

Subscription Members Only Toolset

The Worksharing Monitor gives actionable, real-time information to users on the project team. For example, team members can Be aware of the current status of central files, Monitor progress of editing requests and notifications, Plan for the best time to save to central

Batch Print Utility

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