Revit 2015 R2 Dimension API Demonstration

 

These are some of the main themes addressed by this release of the Revit product. You will recognise them from previous years as well:

 

• Construction - Modeling and detailing solutions for construction and fabrication
• Analysis + Simulation - Predicting building performance and behavior
• Scalability - Supporting projects and teams of any size and complexity
• Interoperability - Leveraging the Autodesk portfolio and industry standards
• Productivity - Providing increased value for existing customers

 

These product themes obviously strongly influence the API development as well.

 

Now we turn to the main two aspects of interest to application developers: application porting, discussing changes affecting existing applications, and the exciting area of all the new API features added in this release.

 

New Features + API: Here are the opportunities for new automation and customization, lots of potential for improvements to existing add-ins. The trend to 'eating our own dog food' is continued...

 

Scalability Graphics Consolidation:

 

• Optimized graphics for repeated materials
• Similar Elements drawn together
• Increased View drawing performance
• Graphics is a rich field for performance improvement and hundreds of tests are run constantly.

 

Scalability|Performance Improvements:

 

• Optimized family handling in memory
• Improved geometry handling
• Regeneration optimizations Note that individual developers are named in the images presented here. The long-term family separation project is included in this release, so model open and workset test are slowed down. One long-term target is to provide multi-processor support for regeneration.

 

Productivity | Sketchy Lines: New visualizations in standard Views. Modify Sketchy Lines visibility in Views using the View methods GetSketchyLines and SetSketchyLines. Jitter etc. is adjustable.