How good the features are is as always a matter of opinion

I’m not going to cover all flavours of Revit here. For a start this is a Revit Structure blog and secondly I don’t use the other flavours, so couldn’t give you a fully informed review if I tried.
I was up until stupid o’clock last night watching in action some of the new features of the Revit 2012 ‘Galaxy’ being demonstrated live. I firstly would like to thank Mr David Light a)for wangling me a ticket & b)for such a great write up… (I think he may have prepared a lot of his post in advance, I must remember to do the same next year).

If I take the new features of RST in isolation there is a fair amount to be excited about. The biggest of the feature enhancements to RST has to be the ’super-charging’ of the analytical model. I’m going to keep this basic for fear of spilling too much information.
Ability to:

Control the visibility of the Analytical Model through its own object style tab (should have been like this from the start Mr Autodesk!).

Floor and wall analytical representations have been given a surface (nice extra, especially given the ability to isolate the analytical model).

Quick access to enable/disable analytical model of elements (handy dandy!)

Colour coding of analytical model end segments. (Yes, makes sense, but can we make it clearer?)

Nodes (this one is gooood! Much more control! Productivity gains for preparation of analytical model for external analysis).

Autodesk have also improved the functionality of the 3D reinft. tools. I won’t bother listing the improvements, I doubt it will have much impact on many of you.

There are some nice improvements to the graphic display options and visual styles. Improvements to selections with the addition of ghosting. New tools for creating assembly groups and assembly views, and a new ‘parts/divide’ model tool.

A particularly nice addition is the ability to freeze and tag 3D views. This is something Glenn Jowett of Revit ST has been fighting for for a number of years.

As I mentioned earlier this is my first hit at being able to post on the new features. I am unsure of the detail to which I can go into so I have erred on the side of caution, rather than upset those nice guys and gals at Autodesk.

Autodesk have, to my mind, been wasting their time on the enhancements to modelling 3D reinft. (I may well have to come back and delete this post in a couple of years if they actually make the theory usable). As pointed out by David Light HERE Autodesk would probably be wise in addressing some fundamental basic enhancements that would dramatically improve all end-users experience of the software. Currently as Alan (Sir Cadalot) says over at RST Learning Curve, Revit 3D reinft. detailing is currently a 3D toy.

Overall i’m excited! Whilst many of the basics have yet to be developed, this release has introduced a number items which will have an impact on the day-to-day use of the software.

Watch this space. Once released I will endeavour to start posting tutorials to help get you all (and myself) up to speed!

Happy Reviting… not long to wait now!