Revit Timeline

Before Public release – Charles River Software 0.1 1999 11 (Early Adopter 1) 0.2 2000 01 (Early Adopter 2) Product released to Public – Revit Technology Corporation 1.0 2000 04 2.0 2000 08 2.1 2000 10 3.0 2001 02 3.1 2001 06 4.0 2001 11 4.1 2002 01 Autodesk Revit 2002 04 04 (Autodesk buys Revit Technology Corp) 4.5 2002 05 09 5.0 2002 12 17 2003 04 28 (Zoogdesign Revit Forum goes Live) 5.1 2003 05 5.5 2003 04 01 (pseudo mac release screenshot, April Fool's joke...Author unknown) 6.0 2003 12 22 6.1 2004 03 11 2004 05 26 (Zoogdesign Read Only to Merge with AUGI) 7.0 2004 12 13 Autodesk Revit Building (New Name) 8.0 2005 02 26ish 8.1 2005 08 12 (web release then withdrawn) 8.1 2005 08 23 (Actual release) 9.0 2006 04 12 (Shipping & Web Release) Autodesk Revit Series (Marketing Bundle w/ AutoCAD) 1.0 2003 12 01 (Revit 6.1) 2.0 2004 XX XX (Revit 6.1) 8.0 2005 XX XX (Revit 8.0) 8.1 2005 XX XX (Revit 8.1, AutoCAD 2006) Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Series 9 – Building (Marketing Bundle w/ Aut

AutoCAD Drafting in Revit- 2D Drafting Tools

As Revit is a modelling program that enables you to model (draw) an entire project in 3D 
you need to display this model in a manner that can be viewed by others for construction.
To ensure these views are in a manner that matches your current office drafting standards and to 'tell the story' you will need to do 2D drafting at some stage. Revit keeps it simple and generally has enough for what you need.

Some of the items include:

• Detail lines
Use the Detail Line tool to draw detail lines to provide additional information to the model geometry in detail views and drafting views.

• Filled regions 

Create a view-specific graphic that fills an area with a pattern. You can use filled regions when detailing a view or creating an annotation family
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• Detail components 

Detail components are line-based 2D elements that you can add to detail views or drafting views. They are visible only in those views. They scale with the model, rather than the sheet.
Detail components are not associated with the model elements that are part of the building model. Instead, they provide construction details or other information in a specific view.

• Detail groups 
A detailed group is a collection of view-specific elements that you can then reuse within other views.

• Masking regions 

Masking regions are view-specific graphics that can be used to obscure elements in a view.
Masking regions may be useful in scenarios like the following:
  1. You need to obscure elements in a project.
  2. You are creating a detailed family or a model family and need the background of the element to mask the model and other detail components when it is loaded into a project.
  3. You need to create a model family (from imported 2D DWG files) that obscures other elements when placed in a view.
• Repetitive details.

2D drafting should only be used when there are limitations to the 3D model. Apply when you just need a quick detail or need additional information with your model element.



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Note :

2D drafting elements are often called “dumb intelligence”, i.e. if a steel member moves from its original position the 2D detail element WILL NOT move. Try to lock the 2D drafting elements to the 3D model components wherever possible. This way they will move with modelled elements.

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