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What is Revit?

Autodesk’s Revit is a Building Information Modelling (BIM) tool. It enables architectural, MEP, structural, and engineering design, and provides analysis to support iterative workflows

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Revit is a versatile software used in various industries for a wide range of purposes. Users, including architects, engineers, and …
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Popular Features

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  • Document sharing (39)
    8.6
    86%
  • Plan distribution & viewing (42)
    8.4
    84%
  • Collaboration & approvals (38)
    7.7
    77%
  • As-built drawings (42)
    7.6
    76%
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Pricing

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Monthly

$350

Cloud
per month

1-Year

$2805

Cloud
per year

3-Year

$8415

Cloud
per 3 years

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.autodesk.com/products/revit…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $350 per month
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Product Demos

SAP2000 to Revit Converter - Demo

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Autodesk REVIT MEP DEMO FOR ENGINEERS

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ReCap Pro Demo

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REVIT MEP - HVAC DEMO - CADclip

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NVIDIA Quadro vDWS Demo on Revit

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Autodesk A360 Collaboration for Revit Demo

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

6.7
Avg 7.7

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

7.2
Avg 7.6

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

6.6
Avg 7.6

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

5.4
Avg 8.2

Construction Project & Field Management

Features related to collaboration between construction management and project execution (e.g. the office and the job site, general contractors and subcontractors)

6.9
Avg 7.4

Estimating

A set of tools and applications that allow contractors to forecast, track, monitor, and adjust the cost of building a structure. Cost estimates are used by project owners to determine the scope and feasibility of a project, and also for budget allocation. Contractors also use cost estimates when deciding whether or not to bid on a project and for bid creation.

7.6
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Revit?

Autodesk’s Revit is a Building Information Modelling (BIM) product. It enables architectural design, MEP and structural design, detailing, and engineering design. Revit provides an open-source graphical programming interface designed for BIM workflows, performance modelling and 3D visualizations for designs. The program supports mid-process analysis to enable iterative analysis which can inform and refine models and designs. Revit also supports worksharing for cross-team collaboration. It is priced at $2,310/year.

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What is Revit - BIM Software from Autodesk

Revit Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Autodesk’s Revit is a Building Information Modelling (BIM) tool. It enables architectural, MEP, structural, and engineering design, and provides analysis to support iterative workflows

Revit starts at $350.

Reviewers rate Document sharing highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Revit are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Revit is a versatile software used in various industries for a wide range of purposes. Users, including architects, engineers, and construction professionals, rely on Revit for designing and coordinating building projects. With its powerful features, Revit has become the go-to tool for creating construction drawings, performing structural analysis, and solving coordination problems. It streamlines the process of creating 3D models, generating estimates, and sending isometric models to the project management team. Revit is also extensively used for BIM/MEP coordination, allowing different trades to collaborate seamlessly and catch potential issues early on. Moreover, Revit aids in visualization, enabling studio artists to develop and bring amusement park designs to life. Contractors and manufacturers invest in Revit to stay competitive and meet technological demands. Overall, Revit proves to be an invaluable asset in the construction industry by addressing problems related to quantities, takeoff, coordination between trades, and meeting client requirements.

Users commonly recommend the following:

Invest in training and learn the advanced features. Many users suggest investing in good training to quickly implement Revit and make the most of its advanced features. They recommend watching tutorials, practicing, and getting employees trained in Revit before starting projects.

Establish company standards and organize the Revit model. Users advise creating good company standards for content creation in Revit and setting up the organization of the Revit model. They also recommend saving frequently to avoid losing work.

Start with small projects and test on real-world scenarios. Users suggest starting with small projects as Revit can be time-consuming, especially for beginners. They acknowledge a learning curve but believe it is worth it. They also recommend testing Revit on real-world scenarios before fully committing, as they consider it the most widely used and compatible BIM platform.

Overall, users emphasize the importance of training, establishing standards, and starting with smaller projects when using Revit. They appreciate its time-saving capabilities, ability to work with both 2D and 3D documents, and its industry-standard position in architecture.

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Reviews

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Antoine Carpentier, E.I.T | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To be perfectly honest, every architectural firm I have ever worked with was also using Revit. Revit (and Autodesk) has a monopoly on the AEC industry, so I didn't choose to use Revit. The industry as a whole made that choice. There is just no competition out there at this point in time.
Abhijeet Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Revit has more features in compare to another software like AutoCAD. The more features get you more flexibility in your work and impact your time management. The more you do in less time and the more your quality with this software. So I think Revit is going in a good direction.
Mahmoud obaid | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
When we talk with different clients, they can't visualize what we want, having Revit with its 3D tools can give a very accurate presentation for the design along with the clash detecting if many disciplines worked together on the same project. Also, it allows for previewing a building during design, effectively a virtual prototype like rendering and walkthroughs. Revit is very helpful especially when it comes to using components that are drawn with building information that can be collected later to provide a bill of materials specified in a schedule.
Stefan Boeykens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • ARCHICAD and VectorWorks
We select Revit when required for projects. If ARCHICAD or other BIM software is needed, we use those. I personally prefer ARCHICAD for architectural design, but it depends on clients and projects which tools are being used.

Revit is a decent product, although innovation has slowed down a lot, which price seems to increase. Integration is good as many external products and services support Revit (more so than other software).

IFC export has (luckily) improved a lot, so it can be used successfully in open BIM workflows. It lacks some of the refinement when compared to ARCHICAD on the deepness of IFC support, but there are a few nice techniques which work well in Revit.
October 26, 2021

Revit and its best uses

LAV PANWAR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Fabrication is slow and takes more manpower to work because it has more manual work compare to Revit. Fabrication and Revit can be used for the same work but Revit will do it faster and real-time syncing method make it easy to work for multiple people and in Fabrication, areas are needed to divide to work for multiple people.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Revit is very vast. It not only [has a] single discipline but also [has] multiple disciplines in a single software, so it meets all of the requirements and performs tasks with ease. Revit is the best option [that] is more user-friendly with respect to its comparable software. So this makes Revit perform tasks in less time.
Bhupesh Pant | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I'd say the advantages on the side of Revit is
  • Huge demand in the market
  • strong development platform (lots of add-ins),
  • widely supported (courses, books, tutorials, support)
It is meant for architecture, but also structure and MEP and since some timealso helpful in visual scripting through Dynamo, but also .NET scripting and widely documented.
August 12, 2021

Revit: A team player

Keshav Mot | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Autodesk Revit is more user-friendly than the mentioned software and is easy to create a custom family within the software. Multiple users can work at the same time in Revit, as with the other software mentioned, each user has to work on a separate file. Faster workflow and abilities to create multiple work sets in Revit make the overall process smoother for the team.
August 11, 2021

Revit at practical use

chetanya pohekar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit is a more creative tool compared to others software like AutoCAD. More people can work simultaneously on Revit files but in AutoCAD only 1 person can work on 1 file. File management of Revit is good whereas in AutoCAD multiple AutoCAD files are created for the same 1 project. At some accuracy, the equipment can be created in Revit
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit, like AutoCAD, is the most straight forward, intuitive of the BIM software available in today's market. It is widely excepted at a norm and is the most universally used in the engineering trades that we work with. As our clients start to demand that their projects are completed in BIM software, Revit is a solution that easily interfaces with AutoCAD making our design team flexibility that much greater.
Paul Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit like AutoCAD can produce both a 3d model & 2 dimensional drawings such as plans, elevations & sections which are required for any design project to be communicated on paper for construction. But unlike AutoCAD, Revit's focus is to build a 3d model that contain smart information for construction. So for Revit the 2 dimensional drawings becomes a byproduct. In addition to the required drawings needed on paper to communicate the design, Revit offers so much more information in the model for all engineering disciplines.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit is one of the most powerful tools in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Field. It is outmatched by none. There is definitely a learning curve, and it cannot be picked up by an average employee and learned without formal training. Revit can do more on the design/design management side of construction than any other product/platform.
March 03, 2020

Amazing 3-D tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit is easy to operate and involves various families for different disciplines. It also involves one single model where different users can open, work, and synchronize at the same time, making collaboration easy. Also, users can view other disciplines in the same model making the placement of families easier compared to AutoCAD.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There are really no competitors to Revit for large complex building projects. It is essentially an industry standard, and we would not be able to complete our work or collaborate with our consultants effectively if we did not use Revit. AutoCAD is still used in the office for side studies and production of some plan graphics and details because it is less constrained than Revit.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit has more architectural design functions, which work for rendering the structures into a polished style. SketchUp is unlikely to be used for a large structure modeling, more towards the interior design or small model demonstration. SOLIDWORKS is a more generalized software that offers functions not only for structural design but also mechanical, electrical engineering, etc.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit and SketchUp can be complementary products, although many promotional materials for Revit imply that it can replace SketchUp from your workflow. The promise is that you could complete all of your design studies in Revit, and not need to rebuild the geometry in Revit. The reality is that Revit is not flexible enough to quickly iterate through ideas, and the presentation tools are not robust enough to replace a separate 3D modeling software like SketchUp or Rhino. Luckily, there is some interoperability between the two. Specifically, SketchUp files can be imported into Revit as a family, which allows for some complex pieces to be modeled outside of Revit, and Revit files can be exported to 3D CAD and imported into SketchUp. Information is lost during this process, but the geometry can be easily adjusted for design studies.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AutoCAD was great back in the day but had such a wide range of uses. Revit is based in construction and runs better for that function because of it. If I was to have to switch back to AutoCAD I cannot imagine how much more time I would have to spend in order to produce the same results that I can with Revit. Trimble SysQue has been a great add on for our Revit program. It is not an alternative, it is really in addition to. Each morning when I fire up Revit I am firing up SysQue right along with it.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Revit is purely an architectural design and drafting tool. It is best used at this current time of its development for visualization purposes. It does have features for documentation purposes for building construction however extracting building data and information is not yet fully utilized or streamlined. What Revit does well, and why it was selected is for the construction and building tools and elements, is that it has enabled the creation of a building to be done in a minimal amount of time by qualified staff.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AutoCAD, MicroStation. These are both good programs but they are limited to two dimensions for the most part and I choose to use Revit for its ease in working in 3D, annotation, and organization. If you are looking to have a consistent good-looking set of drawings in 2D or 3D, I would recommend Revit.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We think Revit is hands down the leader in BIM software. It is the one program that most all shops are utilizing these days so it should be the first option you explore. There are other software packages out there but this is really the one that the vast majority of the industry uses and should be really taken seriously.
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