2018: Autodesk Revit

If you ask a hundred Architects, Engineers, and Construction professionals to name the most influential version of Revit in the last decade, you will get a surprising number of the same answer:

A major update allows railings to be added to entire multi-story stair towers with a single click. Railings can also be hosted on topography to follow the slope of the land. autodesk revit 2018

– More robust tools for handling large point cloud datasets and improved topographical surfaces. If you ask a hundred Architects, Engineers, and

: Designers could perform energy analysis, solar studies, and automated quantity take-offs (QTO) to optimize building performance and manage costs. The Shift from Drafting to Modeling : Designers could perform energy analysis, solar studies,

But the killer feature? Global parameters could now drive , not just within families. This allowed designers to create "parametric building massing" without diving into the Conceptual Mass Environment.