What’s new in Revit 2025

Key themes and features

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Key themes
Revit 2025

Design productivity Sustainability Analysis

Interoperability Cloud & data Documentation efficiency

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 New features and enhancements
Revit 2025
Design productivity
• Create Walls with Auto Join and Lock  Search in Project Browser enhancement
• In-canvas wall Wrappings controls
 Dark Theme for Shared Views
• Multiple loop mullion profiles
 Revit personal accelerator UI
• Single-element or empty arrays in families
• Site design – Topo surface conversion for Pads  Revit macro tools renovation
• Site design – Toposolid by Face  Revit .NET 8
• Site design – Excavations on Toposolid  Extensible storage improvements
• Site design – Excavation volume parameters
 Filter discipline updates
• Site design – Shaft opening enhancement
 Option bar removal
• Site design – Excavated surfaces host elements
• Site design – Toposolid smooth shading  Parametric splicing for typical rebar
• Site design – Contour display when editing  Highlight bars exceeding the maximum length
• Site design – Shape editing snaps  Prevent unexpected changes to the rebar model
• Dynamo for Revit 3.03 upgrades
 Enhanced Split features for framing and columns
 Updated set of rules for connections automation
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 New features and enhancements
Revit 2025
Design productivity(cont’d)
 Disable Mark value for MEP categories
 Validate model integrity
 Single-phase components
 Maximum circuits parameter for “Data/Other Panel”
 Other Panels can consume power
 Fabrication Data Manager – edit part type geometry
 Fabrication Data Manager – part search
 Fabrication Data Manager – upload and assign images

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 New features and enhancements
Revit 2025
Interoperability
Analysis
 Improved IFC Category mapping setting  LCS orientation for structural analytical elements
 Import/Export STEP files  Annual operating schedules for energy analysis
 Support new GIS systems
 Informed Design for Revit Documentation efficiency
 Revit to Robot Link enhancements • Sheet collections
• Batch delete and add to library for materials
 Use Advance Steel part & assembly marks in Revit
• Material thumbnail generator improvement
• Align and distribute annotations
Cloud data • Background PDF Export
 Monitoring and visualization of Coordination Model changes • Room perimeter accuracy improvement
• Schematic bending details for rebar tagging
Sustainability
• Enhanced annotations in bending details
• Support for gbXML version 7.03 • Set presentation options for multiple bar sets at once
• Forma Add-in for Revit Updates • Tag and dimension components of connections
• Total Carbon Analysis for architects – Insight | Carbon Insight • Material Gauge parameter for fabrication ductwork
• Total Carbon Analysis for architects – Insight | Flexible Dashboards • Easier access to duct and pipe pressure drop data
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Design productivity
Revit 2025

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Create Walls with Auto Join and Lock
• New wall placement options:
• Auto Join: Automatically join a wall with
an adjacent one.
• Auto Join & Lock: Join and lock adjacent
walls. Both move together.
• Inserted elements perforate adjacent
walls
• Options not available for walls that are
structural, face-based, stacked, and
curtain walls.
• Slanted and tapered walls can join but
won’t lock

Automate the modelling and

representation of adjacent walls
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In-canvas wall Wrapping controls

• Allow or disallow wall wrappings

with the new wrapping controls
• Layer wrappings must be enabled
in the wall type properties
• Controls only visible when a wall is
selected in plan view

Expedite the representation of wall

wrappings
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Multiple loop mullion profiles

• Previously, mullion profiles were

limited to a single loop.
• Create curtain wall mullions with
profiles with multiple closed loops
• Open loops are not supported

Higher level of development in the

representation of mullions
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Single-element or empty arrays in families
Single-element array (1)
• Display arrays containing zero or
one element
• Works as expected for both linear
and radial arrays
• Available only within the Family
editor Empty array (0)

Greater modeling flexibility using

families with arrayed components
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Site design – Toposurface conversion for Pads

• Automatically convert legacy

Building Pads into excavated areas
• Applicable to new Toposolids
generated from a legacy
Toposurface
• Legacy Toposurfaces and Building
Pads are preserved alongside the
Toposolid

Downstream Toposurface upgrades

while maintaining design intent
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Site design – Toposolid by Face

• Create Toposolids on any non-

vertical faces of a mass family
• Inspect the Related to Mass
checkbox to verify if the Toposolid
is derived from a Mass
• Limited Shape-editing functions
available
• Cannot select faces from different
masses for the same Toposolid
Expanded options to represent
complex topography
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Site design – Excavations on Toposolid

• Use a Floor, Roof or a Toposolid to

excavate volume from the host
Toposolid
• The Toposolid volume value is
adjusted by the excavation volume
• Remove the excavation to undo
the cutout
• Works also with legacy Pads

Enhanced control over topography

cutouts
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Site design – Excavation volume parameters

• Report the volume of soil

removed by cuts and
excavations
• Two new parameters:
• Individual Excavation
Volume
• Total Excavation Volume
• Display excavation volumes
in schedules

More accurate and efficient way to

quantify excavation volumes
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Site design – Shafts Opening enhacement

• Previously, the Shaft Opening

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would cut through the entire
Toposolid, ignoring the bottom
face
• Now, the Toposolid detects the
bottom of the shaft as the cut off
limit
• Limitation: The removed soil by a
shaft is not tracked.

Enhanced representation of cutoffs

created by Shafts in Toposolids
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Site design – Excavated surfaces host elements

• Exposed surfaces of a cut

toposolid can host face-based
components
• Families report the Toposolid
as a host

Expanded modelling flexibility using

excavation surfaces
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Site design – Toposolid Smooth Shading
• Display Toposolids with smoothed
surfaces
• Visible in views using Shaded,
Consistent Colors, Textures, and
Realistic visual styles.
• Smoothness mantained with you
print or export
• Limitations when enabled:
• Surface patterns will not display
• Materials cannot be overridden with
paint, decals, or graphic overrides
• For linked Toposolids, smooth in the
original file and reload
Enhance the visual representation of
Toposolids with Smooth Shading
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Site design – Contour display when editing

• Contour lines are now visible

when shape-editing a Toposolid
• Contour visibility respond to
graphics overrides and contour
type settings

Improved control and experience

when editing Toposolids
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Site design – Shape Editing snaps
• When shape editing a Floor, Roof or
Toposolid, enable or disable the
snapping to inner points and edges
• Snapping options:
• Along Surface: XY snap, Z on topo surface
• Absolute: XY snap, Z based on elevation
base settings
• Snap XYZ: XY and Z snap to a 3D point
• Limitations:
• Can’t snap to Splines.
• Snapping is conditioned by View Range
• Prioritizes Endpoint and Midpoint

Increased 3D modelling precision for

higher quality models in less time
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Dynamo for Revit 3.03 upgrade
Revit 2025

• Work better with linked models

• Improved interactions with geometry
• Toposolid nodes
• The new Package Manager
• Search for nodes by category
• More readable Watch node text
• Updated Revit sample files
• Gate node and Remember node in the
Dynamo library

Improved experience when developing

automation workflows
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Search in Project Browser enhancement
Revit 2025

• View all the child nodes when the parent node

contains the keywords
• Collapse the child nodes when they don’t contain
the keywords

Search more efficiently in Project Browser Revit 2024 Revit 2025

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Dark Theme for Shared Views
Revit 2025

• Enabled for the first level user interface in Shared

Views
• Keep consistent with the other Dark Theme
supported UI

Seamless and consistent visual experience

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Revit personal accelerator UI
• The Revit Personal Accelerator
(PAC) optimizes performance
when working on Revit Cloud
Models
• Display PAC available storage
• Change max capacity limit (GB)
value
• Copy cache folder location to
clipboard
• Direct access to log and help files
Improved performance and stability
when working with Revit Cloud Models
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Revit macro tools renovation
Revit 2025

• The new workflow uses Visual Studio Code as a

more modern and extensible code editor
• Support for automatic template generation
• Document Level Macros, Python, and VB.NET
macros are no longer supported

Streamlined and more efficient coding experience

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Revit .NET 8
Revit 2025

• Revit migrated an important technical framework

to the latest version (.NET 8)
• Improved 3rd party developer experience
• Integration with modern development
environments like Visual Studio Code
• Staying current with technology and regular
maintenance

Improved performance across the board

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Extensible storage improvements
Revit 2025

• Resolve Schema Conflict in file upgrade

• Resolve Schema Conflict when Sync to Central or
Reload latest
• Resolve Schema Conflict in file open

Optimized workflows minimizing schema conflicts

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Filter discipline updates
Revit 2025

• Update filter discipline of some categories under

Visibility Control dialog
• The changes are based on a user survey with
300+ valid user replies
• The category filter was reassigned as shown in
the table for these categories Architecture Structure Mechanical Electrical Piping Infrastructure

Medical
Equipment X X X X

Food Service
Equipment X X X X

Audio Visual
Device X X

Fire Protection
X X X X

Vertical
Circulation X X X

Hardscape
X

Work more efficiently with categories

Temporary
Structure X X X

Signag
X X

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 # Name How to trigger it Moved to Property Moved to

Option bar removal 1 3D Snapping option Create a new conceptual mass family >-
Enable “3D snapping” option
Palette Ribbon

X
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2 Workplane Space Setting Show Work Plane >- Select work plane >-

• Options move to Property palette Change “Space” setting X

• Options move to ribbon 3 Ellipse Line: Keep Ratio option Select an ellipse line >- Enable “Keep Ratio”
option X

• Allows for keytips, shortcuts, and to 4 Arc Line: Keep Concentric option Select an arc line >- Enable “Keep
be closer to other functionality Concentric” option X

5 Apply Area Rule option Create new area boundary line >- Enable
“Apply area rule” option X

6 Modify: Scale tool Modify >- Scale

X

7 Create Level: Make Plan View and Create a level >- Change "Make Plan View"
Plan View Types setting checkbox and "Plan View Types" settings X

8 Annotation: Tag by Category tool Click Annotation>Tag by category

X X

Easier to find controls, that are more visible and accessible

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Parametric splicing for typical rebar
Revit 2025

• Pick a line to splice multiple rebar sets

• Splice rebar by length
• Modify rebar splices
• Splice types and lap length configuration
• Automatic constraints for spliced ends

Enhanced user efficiency in accurately modeling concrete

reinforcement
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Highlight bars exceeding the maximum length
Revit 2025

• Visually inspect bars that require length

adjustments
• Utilize Revit filters to highlight bars that require
splitting

Enhanced rebar quality control

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Prevent unexpected changes to the rebar model
Revit 2025

• Disable rebar constraints on individual bar

handles
• A handle with a disabled constraint doesn’t react
to changes of the concrete faces
• Manually drag a bar handle with a disabled
constraint
• Edit constraints for multiple bars and disable all
the constraints
• Check the rebar constraints status by using
schedules or filters

Enhanced control over rebar geometry

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Enhanced Split features for framing and columns
Revit 2025

• Consistent ribbon experience for accessing “Split” and

“Split with gap” for steel members
• Splitting steel framing and columns that have steel
connections

Enhanced detailed steel design

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Updated set of rules for connections automation
Revit 2025

• Place more typical connections using less scripts

• Select where to place the steel connections

Easier usage of steel connection automation

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Disable Mark value for MEP categories
Revit 2025
• Mark Numbers will no longer auto-generate as
new elements are created for the following MEP
categories
• MEP Ancillary Framing
• MEP Fabrication Ductwork Stiffeners
• Air Terminals
• Mechanical Equipment
• Duct Accessories
• Electrical Equipment
• Electrical Fixtures
• Mechanical Control Devices
• Lighting Fixtures
• Pipe Accessories
• Sprinklers
• Plumbing Fixtures
• Plumbing Equipment

Streamline mark numbering for cleaner documentation

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Validate model integrity
Revit 2025
• Validate model health before updating
configuration
• No longer wait for several hours for
reload configuration only to undo the
reload due to disconnects
• Issues are stored as reviewable warnings

Avoid fabrication rework with model validation

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Single-phase components
Revit 2025
• Revit will now support single-phase
components within three-phase
connections and a variety of single-phase
and three-phase configurations
• Parameters have been renamed to
clearly identify power properties

Enhanced efficiency and design for electrical phasing

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Maximum circuits parameter for “Data/Other Panel”
Revit 2025
• A new parameter “Maximum amount of
circuits” has been added for data and
other panel
• Variable amount option can be enabled
for data panel schedule templates
• Revit will show “Warning” if user
attempts to connect more circuits than
“Maximum amount of circuits”

Enhanced efficiency for electrical design

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Other panels can consume power
Revit 2025
• Power from low voltage panels like fire
alarms are now accounted for on power
circuits
• The System Browser will report the load
to the assigned power connector

Expanded options for informed data of

electrical systems

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Fabrication Data Manager - edit part type geometry
Revit 2025
• Edit geometry in Fabrication Data
Manager (FDM) for product listed parts
only
• Add and remove part types
• Easily edit part data such as diameter,
angle and length

Enhanced features for editing fabrication parts

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Fabrication Data Manager - part search
Revit 2025
• More accurate parts search in
Fabrication Data Manager (FDM)
• Filter using part data
• Search by part name
• Choose between tile and table views

Enhanced features for fabrication part search

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Fabrication Data Manager - upload and assign images
Revit 2025
• Easily upload and assign images to
parts in Fabrication Data Manager
(FDM)
• Generate from 3D Model will take
snapshot of current view
• Upload File will allow you to bring
in a png, jpeg, or jpg image

Simplified imaging for fabrication parts

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Interoperability
Revit 2025

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Improved IFC Export Mapping Settings
• Customize Revit category
mapping with templates
• Create, import, duplicate,
save, export, rename and
delete templates
• Search category keywords
• Use the dialog launcher to
select IFC Class and Predefine
type
• Reset to default values.

Improve collaboration with

enhanced interoperability settings
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Import/Export STEP files

• The STEP format is a universal

neutral format read by most CAD
software programs
• Enhanced coordination with non-
Revit stakeholders and product
manufacturers
• Map imported geometry to a
specified Revit category

Expanded options of information

exchange
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Support new GIS coordinate systems

• Support five new GIS coordinate

systems
• CGCS2000
• UK GG951
• Amtrak Northeast Corridor
• US Albers NAD83
• ISN2016

Enhanced integration with geodesical

referenced datasets
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Informed Design for Revit
• Template Discovery: Browse catalogs of
known-manufacturable building products
for use in Revit projects.

• Customization: Tailor building products

to align with your building's requirements,
ensuring compliance with manufacturers'
specifications.

• Certainty: Ensure design decisions are

accurate and manufacturable to reduce
project risk and prevent errors.

Leverage manufacturer-supplied data in real-time

to design more quickly, accurately, and cost-
effectively.
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Informed Design for Revit
• Insert pre-generated
variations: Browse the list of
validated product variations to
place instances quickly and easily.
• Update and replace: Modify the
values of existing instances to
configure replacements. Swap out-
of-date products with the
manufacturer’s latest product
Explore
release.building product templates, tailor
and add them into design files, ensuring
traceability as a known, manufacturable
component.
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Revit to Robot Link enhancements
Revit 2025

• Transfer of Local Coordinate Systems after Revit

analytical LCS enhancements
• Transfer for split members

Better support of BIM-centric structural analysis workflows

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Use Advance Steel part & assembly marks in Revit
Revit 2025 P5

• Transfer and synchronize single part marks and

assembly marks 4x PL06

• Create general arrangement drawings for steel

projects
P1

AS-001
8x M20 8.8
2x PL01

P2

2x PL01
PL02
PL03
PL04

Better connected projects across design, fabrication, and PL02

construction PL03
PL04
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Cloud data
Revit 2025

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Monitoring of Coordination Model changes
Revit 2025

• Comparing changes across coordination model

versions
• Displaying type & number of changes
• Consistent results & user experience with
Autodesk Construction Cloud
• Insights into object parameters that changed

Coordinate design development and model deliverables

more effectively between stakeholders
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Sustainability
Revit 2025

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Export gbXML schema version 7.03
Revit 2025
• Revit now supports the latest version of v7.03

gbXML (v7.03)
• Expanded descriptions of HVAC
equipment and operational parameters
including
• Zone Equipment
• Air Systems
• Hydronic Loops
• HVAC systems: Air systems, Heat Exchangers,
Fans, Chiller and Coil types

More comprehensive modeling of building

energy systems

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Forma Add-In for Revit - Updates

• Access in Revit proposals

optimized by the latest set of
Forma’s environmental analysis
and capabilities:
• Embodied Carbon Tech Preview
• Solar Analysis Beta
• Rowhouse tool
• Rhino extension
• Update notifications in Ribbon

Reduce the environmental impact in Forma’s

conceptual proposals and transfer them to Revit
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Total Carbon Analysis for Architects
Insight - Carbon Insights
• Offers directional insight on embodied
and operation carbon impacts and
tradeoff between architectural
systems in Revit
• Available in Revit as a plugin
• Leverage EC3 Databases to configure
the analysis
• Display results in graphs by
Construction, Material, Intensity by
Areadata-driven insights for designing
Access
buildings with a lower carbon footprint
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Total Carbon Analysis for Architects
Insight – Flexible Dashboards
• Build customized flexible, open
and transparent dashboards
• Suggest targeted improvements
• Create custom data points
(factors) and performance
indicators (metrics) to customize
the analysis scope

Make comparisons and understand design

trade-offs, with new flexible dashboards
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Analysis
Revit 2025

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LCS orientation for analytical elements
Revit 2025

• Change or align the X axis orientation for

multiple analytical members at the same
time
• Use a reference line to align the X axis
orientation or align/flip the Z axis
orientation for multiple analytical panels
simultaneously
• Supports the control of orientation for
loads, boundary conditions, results, etc.
• Clear and accurate structural analysis
results interpretation
Improved analytical consistency with
structural analysis software
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Annual operating schedules for energy analysis

Revit 2025
• Building Operating Schedules can now
be easily accessed under MEP Settings
• Annual schedules can now be defined
for different operating conditions,
multiple daily schedules, and hourly load
intensity

Enable energy efficiency in design with enhanced

scheduling features
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Documentation efficiency
Revit 2025

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Sheet Collections
• Create multiple, flexible groups or
packages of sheets
• Allow duplicate Sheet Number
values across collections
• Use two new view parameters:
Sheet Collection and Referencing
Sheet Collection
• Drag and drop sheets in the
Project Browser to organize sheet
in collections
Deliver projects faster with clear and
organized sheet collections
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Sheet Collections
• Apply a custom Browser
Organization using the Sheet
Collection parameter
• Create new sheets directly on
under a collection in the project
browser
• Filter sheets by Sheet Collection
before printing or exporting
• Apply View Filters using Sheet
Collection values
Deliver projects faster with clear and
organized sheet collections
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Batch delete and add to library materials

• Select multiple materials at once

• Delete materials in batches
• Add material to custom libraries in
batches

Manage project materials quickly

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Material thumbnail generator improvement

• Generate thumbnails in the

material browser faster with the
new ‘Quick’ render setting
• Display thumbnails with fewer
CPU resources

Explore project materials with ease

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Align and distribute annotations
Revit 2025

• Select annotations including text, tags and

keynotes
• New Align and Distribute contextual ribbon panel
• Neatly distributed with one click
• Text alignment for multiple selected texts

Quickly align annotations to create neat and legible

drawings
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Background PDF Export
Revit 2025

• Continue working on your model while the

export process completes
• Monitor the status of the PDF export

Seamless design workflow

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Room Perimeter accuracy improvement

• More accurate room perimeter

calculations at:
• Inner loop boundaries
• Curved boundaries

• Perimeter values may change

slightly when a file is upgraded

Get more accurate data from room

schedules
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Schematic bending details for rebar tagging
Revit 2025

• Options to show dimensions or just the bar

bending
• More complete shop drawings

Streamline coordination between

designers and fabricators
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Enhanced annotations in bending details
Revit 2025

• Improved control over annotations in bending

details
• Select and move dimensions and tag in bending
details
• Align tags in realistic bending details
• Align multiple bending details

Streamline coordination between

designers and fabricators
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Enhanced rebar set presentation
Revit 2025

• Select bars to show from multiple rebar sets

• Set presentation options for multiple bar sets at
once

Enhanced productivity during the creation of shop drawings

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Tag and dimension components of connections
Revit 2025

• Existing tags and dimensions are preserved on

steel connections break command

Break

Improve your engineering documentation

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More easily access duct and pipe pressure drop data
Revit 2025
• Analytical Duct and Pipe Segments
with associated tag categories have been
added as Analytical Model Categories
• Flow and pressure loss information is
now available in schedules and shown in
properties

Enhanced access to analytical model categories

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Material Gauge parameter for fabrication ductwork
Revit 2025
• A new parameter “Material Gauge” has
now been added for MEP fabrication
ductwork
• This new parameter will be read-only and
can be used in Tags and Schedules

Increased fabrication efficiency

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