A new version of Revit - Revit 2025 has just
been released and in this video we're going to be covering all of the interesting and
exciting new features. Now unlike last year we don't have any new big tools or features,
however there have been some big updates to all of the existing features that I'm excited to
share. We're going to start with my top five new features, then we're going to be moving on to
the architecture features, then the toposolid updates and there are many, then we're going
to moving to other topics like documentation annotation, structure and so on. Finally there
will be an honorable mentions section, where I'm just going to mention some updates without
going into a step-by-step tutorial. Let's go! For my top five new features I have to start
off with Disable and enable wall and wrappings by instance in canvas. This will greatly improve
detailing. Moving on to second place is sheet collection, so for better sheet organization. Then we have
the Array tool update, so families will be able to flex to one or zero elements and I've been waiting
for this feature forever. Then we have the Excavate tool in toposolids. Basically building pads are
back, sort of. And then finally we have Annotation alignment, this will be a huge timesaver. Now before
we jump into Revit and start the step-by-step tutorial I would just like to ask you to check
out my website Balkanarchitect.com. I'm going to link it up in the cards above and then also down
in the description of this video. If you're serious about learning Revit that's definitely the best
place to be and I'm excited to announce that there will be a completely new Beginner to intermediate
course released very soon. If you get it now, you will get the update and if you already have it,
you will get the update for free. So don't worry about that and if you get the Beginner course now,
you will get it at a cheaper price because the new updated one will cost a bit more, so if you want to
lock in the lower price, get it now. So now without any further ado let's jump straight into the new
Revit 2025. The first architectural update that we're going to be seeing is the option to Enable
or disable layer wrapping at ends of walls in the actual canvas. So here we have a couple of
walls in the floor plan view. If I select this wall, what you'll notice is that here I have
this button that allows me to disallow wall and wrapping and as you can see now it's turned off,
now it's turned on. And we can do that for the rest of these. So here I can turn it on here I can turn
it off, and I can manually adjust this by instance for any of these walls. One thing to note is that
for this to be able to work you do need to go here into edit type and then for the layer wrapping
at ends it has to be set to either exterior or interior, otherwise if it's set to none it will not
display that option and here where that's checked on, it does display that option. So this is just
something to keep in mind. Next we have features for Auto join and lock when creating walls. So
here if I start the wall command what you'll notice that is that under placement we have Auto
join and Auto join and lock. So what this actually means is that we can use this when using new walls
to add layers to existing ones. This is a common practice and here I have this ceramic tile wall,
which I want to use to add additional layers to existing walls, and here if I do it without having
any of these checked on, let's see what happens, so I'm just going to place it like this. Hit the
Escape key and what you'll notice is basically these are not joined together. It's going through
the door, it shouldn't, and we have these double wide lines. However if I decide to use Auto
join, what this will do is if I place this here and then hit the Escape key, as you can see this
automatically joined this new wall to the existing one, it's now opening where the opening should be
and we no longer have these double thick lines. So as you can see here we have one thick
outline and here we have two. And then we have the Auto join and lock and let's use that here.
So for example if I add another wall here, what will happen is it will automatically be joined
as you can see, but also if I select it you can see this one is locked in place. This one isn't or
these two aren't. So if I move this wall, these will stay in the same place. If I move this wall, the new
wall that I've added will move alongside it. Now, let's talk about curtain wall mullions. So, so far in
Revit, you could only have one single closed loop as a curtain wall mullion. This is what that would
look like in the floor plan view and it just wouldn't be that impressive. You could add a detail
component, but that's only a detail, it's not really a 3D complex mullion. Well now, we can have multiple
closed loops, so I've created this interesting mullion. I've loaded it in and now let's try to apply
it. So what I'm going to do is just select one of these mullions, let's unpin it, go into Edit type
and now I'm just going to duplicate this one and call it New, okay. And then for the profile, let me
add my new profile which I have created, hit apply, okay. There we go. This is what that looks like and
as you can see here, this is what that mullion looks like. It has this perfect profile and if I apply a
section box to this, you can see here, if we zoom in, this mullion obviously looks much more interesting
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they have been improved significantly so we finally have the Building pad optionality.
Well it's not exactly a building pad, however it does the same job. So for example for this
toposolid you can see I have this floor, kind of embedded and let's say this should be kind of the
bottom of my building. I can just select the toposolid go to Toposolid Shaping and find Excavate.
Select that and then click on this floor and it's basically going to excavate above that floor.
Now if I hit the Escape key a couple of times, this is the result. And of course if this is angled in
any way for example, so if I give it some slope just like this, well it's going to work still and
it's still going to excavate. And then we can play around with the height offset if we want, just like
this. Now what's also really cool is that now with any element that's making an excavation, like this
floor in this case, if I go to the properties I can find excavation volume for this particular floor.
So we can create some really interesting and complex schedules where we know know exactly how
much we're excavating with each element. And this is going to work with floors but it's also going
to work with other things like walls, building pads, mass, in place components and so on. So for
example here I have this wall and if I just use Cut geometry and cut this wall from the toposolid
if I select the wall and go to properties here we have the excavation volume just for this
wall. Now the same thing will apply if we load in a toposurface from an older version of Revit. If
we generate a toposolid from that and then if I select a building pad it's also going to give us
the excavation volume for this building pad so it's going to work with imports as well. Another
really cool functionality that we have with toposolids is the integration with massing. So here
I have a solid mass and I have a mass surface for both of these I can use toposolid by face. I
just pick that, I pick out the face, go create toposolid and it creates that toposolid. Now for this
surface when I go to create, it's going to give me an error message, now this can happen sometimes
maybe it's a bit too wobbly. So basically if you reduce the thickness what I've noticed is
then then it's going to work. And one thing to keep in mind - this isn't a toposolid where you
can edit your points and continue working on it. You really need to change the underlying mass
and then you can select the toposolid and update to face to update to those changes made
to the massing, but it's not going to give you just points which you can adapt. Moving forward
we have some other functionality when it comes to the behavior of railing on toposolids. So here
if we have a bullon shape like this, so if you cut out a toposolid with a void or something like
that, before you couldn't host railing here, now if you go to railing and just place a line going
like that, select that railing, go to pick new host and pick the toposolid, as you can see now it's
going to use those surfaces made by the void and the toposolid to host your railing and it's going
to work. We also have new functionality for shafts so if you create a shaft, well if you did this
before it would simply cut completely through a toposolid if it's just touching it. Now it's going
to cut through it slowly, just like this, as you can see, you can just have a small cut like this with a
shaft. You can adjust it and it's going to cut like this. You really have to pull the shaft through
the entire toposolid now in order to make it kind of poke through. When it comes to editing
toppo solids we have a couple of really cool improvements. So when you go to Modify sub elements
in this modify sub element view, where you can see the points you can also see the contour lines.
So the contour lines will not disappear in the Modify sub elements mode. In addition to that if
you want to add a point, now we have this snap XYZ option, so when this is checked on, just like this,
you can snap to pretty much anything you like. So you can snap to 3D geometry like this railing, to a
CAD file with some CAD lines and so on and so forth. So this is going to make adjusting your topography
to some building elements a lot easier. And finally for toposolids we now have a smoothing option.
So if your toposolids sometimes look a bit too jagged, now here on Massing & Site if we go to Model
site we have Toposolid smooth shading. So what this will do it will probably slow down your
computer a little bit however the toposolids will then appear smoother and nicer. Keep in
mind that this is only a cosmetic change, so it's only in view, it's only what you're seeing, you're
not really changing the underlying geometry, just how Revit presents it to you. Now we're going
to be moving forward to all of the other new improvements and new features. So this one is
probably my favorite one overall and that's the ability to have Arrays with one or zero. So what
does this mean? Well here I have this array family which means that we have the stadium seating
in this case and then I have a parameter for the number of seats. And this uses an array, so
I can say okay I want 15 seats, if I want more. I can say 6 seats if I want less and so on. Now
so far the array was basically stuck at two as the lowest number. Now in some cases you might only
want one seat. So you would previously have to have a completely different family for that
to have only one seat. Now I can set this array to 1 and it's going to work. It's not going to
break. I can set it to 0 and it's also going to work. One thing to note here, make sure you have
some geometry in the family so you can actually select something, if you want to go from 0 and
then up to 2 or 10 and so on. So this is just something that I recommend to have in the family.
Now in the actual family editor itself, this is what that looks like. So you create an array of two,
three, so on whatever number of course you don't start with zero or one. But you create this array
and then it's basically going to work. So if I go here to family types, set this to one, hit apply, you
can see it's going to show still a couple of seats just one is going to be grade out, one is going
to be visible. If I set this to zero and then hit apply, it's just going to have two grade out seats,
but the number is going to be set to zero so it does still need 2 for the actual calculation,
but it can show zero or one or how many you like if you want to go above that. Another really cool
feature that we finally have is the ability to properly align tags or text in your details or any
other view. So for example here I have this call out and we have these tags for the materials and
let's say I want to align them differently, they might be misaligned, something may have been moved
out of place or something like that. So in that case what you can do is you can just select all
tags, you can just, let's say I want to align these up here, I can make a broad selection, go to filter,
go to check none, select the tags, in this case it can be text as well and then we get the multiple
align tools and here I can simply align this so if I just want to set it up like this, I can. I can
align it the other way around. I can set it up, I don't know, like this and then set up the distances
in between those to be equal and so on. And then you can repeat that for the other ones so for
example here, check none, material tags, apply and then here I would first align them on this side
then I would flip around and then I would kind of spread them out equally, for example this is what
they would do in this case. This will just speed up the process of cleaning up and aligning
your text or tags. Moving forward let's talk about sheets because here we have a huge upgrade.
So if I scroll down to sheets now we have sheet collections. So what is that? Well if I right click
on sheets I can go to new sheet collection and it's going to create this collection one. I can
right click, I can rename it here and then I can take my sheets and place them in that collection.
So I can take multiple sheets and just throw it in that collection and now if I collapse that
collection I no longer see those sheets until I open it up. I know this is really good because
you can categorize sheets in different collections. It's going to appear as a sheet parameter so
if you have a sheet schedule, you can see in which collection each sheet is located. This also
allows you to have duplicate sheet numbers and then of course if you're done with a sheet
collection or if you want to remove something you just could take it out, like this. So if I take this
out, let's see, there we go. So you're just going to move it to sheets and it's going to remove it from
that sheet collection and then you can of course delete the sheet collection if you no longer
want to use it. Then we have an improved annual operating schedule for buildings so if you go here
to the Manage tab and find MEP settings, if I open up the building operating schedules, now this has
been moved here, so now you have this button here as well. So if you open open that up it's going
to look like this. So basically we can pick out the year schedules, but then we can pick out,
if we have certain months or dates or weeks that are off. So for example for schools, obviously
you're going to have different occupation when occupation of the building when the kids are
in the school or when the school is empty. So this has been vastly improved and now you can
play around with this, you can create new years as kind of options and then you can set
this up with way more accuracy. Another big thing is the push from Autodesk to get rid of the Option
bar. So for example if I have the circle and I want to scale it, if I go here to scale, before
we had an option bar with options for a numerical or a graphical scale. Now we have those options
here on the ribbon. So in certain instances like this one, those option bar settings are going
to be moved on the ribbon and in other instances it's going to be moved to the properties pallet.
So here you can see a table just showing which option bar options are going to be moved to
the properties panel and which to the ribbon. Now let's move over to the structural updates.
Here I have the example project file from our reinforced concrete template. If you want to check
out that template, I'm going to link it up in the cards above and then also down in the description
of this video. Here let's open up an isolated view which I have created here. And here we have
some rebar we want to have rebar splicing or overlap. And here we have an update for that.
So if I select this rebar, here I have this splice option. So if I click on splice rebar I can
place basically this plane where I want to splice that rebar. I can use the... I can
select it and then, oops, let's apply it and then hit enter. Now I can select this and move it if I
want. Also I have the ability to change the splice family type. So I can go with Lap splice,
we have Staggered splice, and then we have also End to end splice, and also we have the ability
to change Splice position, is it middle, is it end two, is it end one, and yeah, the middle one. So
these are the options here, we also have the option to remove splice if we want, or use the By length
uh functionality. So here I'm just going to hit finish. Okay now moving forward let's go here
to this floor plan view and here we have our rebar but let's say we don't want to present
everything. Here on the presentation panel now we have the option to select the rebars in the rebar
set to show. So I can say okay I want to show this one and this one and this one and then when I hit
Finish, well it's going to remove those and it's going to show the rest of them so we can manually
adjust that however we like. Also when it comes to rebar we have another option in filters. So here
if I go to the View menu, then go to Filters, if I select one of these rebar filters now we we have
the option for the Maximum bar length so you can use that option to filter out the
rebars that exceed the maximum rebar length. In addition to that, there's also been an update to
help not get some unexpected changes to rebar when you reshape the model elements. Another really
cool improvement to rebar is this option where we can select rebar, go to the Bending detail,
now this is something that was added in the previous version of Revit, however now we have the
schematic option. So not realistic schematic which creates this really cool rebar tag that has
a schematic design. So as you can see it just shows here the rebar shape, just something
that you would see perhaps in a table view or in a schedule view. And here we have all of the
dimensions and we can modify this further if we want to just customize it and adjust the size,
the height, the width and so on. So another really cool option that adds just a little bit more
detail to our rebar views. So now we're going to be moving to honorable mentions. So these are some
improvements that I'm not going to be showing but they're definitely worth mentioning. So we have
the Installation speed increased by 20% so when you install the new Revit it's going to be
quicker. We have a whole New Dynamo where we can actually generate topography using new
toposolid nodes which is really cool. We have some minor Dark theme updates. So shared views pallete is
now, well dark. Then we have Search in Project browser enhancement. So basically now when
you search for a term if the parent node has that particular term, it's going to show you
all child nodes, so you can find things a little bit easier. Then we have a Room parameter accuracy
Improvement so this is referring to the fact when you're just measuring the parameter of your
room. Earlier it didn't show or measure the walls that are kind of inside, so if you have
another room inside of a room, it's not going to show you the perimeter of those inside walls, well
now that's going to be included and calculated. Then we have the Background PDF export. So now when
you're exporting to PDF you have a check box where you can check on and have this process run in
the background as you continue to work in Revit. We have STEP file support, so now step files are
supported in Revit. We have a whole new Improved IFC export category mapping table, so it's just
going to give you more features and options when it comes to mapping the IFC export categories. Then
we have Supported new hor horizontal coordinate systems. These are the coordinate systems that
will be supported now. We have Monitoring and Visualization of Coordination Model changes. Revit
will support the latest version of gbXML (v7.03). And those were some of the updates that I wanted
to mention in this rapid fire honorable mention section. Thank you for watching guys, make sure to
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