The History of Revit - The Future of Design

Note: 2/8/09 As long as you're here, probably seeing Revit for the first time, I welcome you to my blog and would like to offer my assistance in your search for more information about Revit. I'm amazed as to the number of people looking at Revit for the first time in 2009. Just so you know, the technology is fantastic. It is a totally different approach, workflow, methodology and way of thinking for architects and engineers. After you read this blog post, I encourage you to do the following:
Download and try Revit. You can learn it in 4 hours - Link
Read the McGraw-Hill report on BIM recently published - Link
Read my posts about CAD vs Revit - Link
See Video demos of Revit - Link
Read about Revit 2010 versions - Link
Take a look at Revit renderings - Link
Look at the ROI of Revit - Link
Contact me for training, implementation and getting started - Link

Now, read about the history and warm up your credit card while planning for the future.

The History is now the future.

Revit was created in 1997. It is currently in it’s 29^th release. That's 2 to 3 releases a year and one of the main reasons you want subscription.

Revit = Revise Instantly

Revit was developed BY individuals that came from the company PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation). Revit was developed specifically with Architecture in mind and was purpose built for Architects by Architects. To that point, the majority of the product development teams are architects or come from a design and construction background. The Revit Building application has been developed as a purpose built tool for Architecture and is the only completely parametric Building Information Modeling tool available.

AutoCAD is the de facto standard non-specialized CAD solution and its file formats DXF and DWG are the most common for CAD interchange. Since the late 1990's, the company made a concerted effort to provide a product for every solution in the industry, often purchasing competing companies and technologies.

In 2002, Autodesk purchased a competing software called Revit, from Massachusetts-based Revit Technologies for $133 million. Revit, for the building solutions and infrastructure group and Inventor for the manufacturing group, formed the foundation for future Autodesk products - a strong departure away from their 20-year old AutoCAD software code.

Revit Timeline

Charles River Software founded - October 31, 1997

• 0.1 1999 11 (Early Adopter 1) (1)
• 0.2 2000 01 (Early Adopter 2) (2)

Revit Technology Corporation - company renamed

• 1.0 2000 04 (3)
• 2.0 2000 08 (4)
• 2.1 2000 10 (5)
• 3.0 2001 02 (6)
• 3.1 2001 06 (7)
• 4.0 2001 11 (8)
• 4.1 2002 01 (9)

Autodesk acquires Revit Technology Corporation - April 1, 2002

• 4.5 2002 05 09 (10)
• 5.0 2002 12 17 (11)
• 5.1 2003 05 (12)
• 5.5 2003 04 01 (13)
• 6.0 2003 12 22 (14)
• 6.1 2004 03 11 (15)
• 7.0 2004 12 13 (16)

Autodesk Revit Series (Marketing Bundle w/ AutoCAD) - Now Autocad Revit Architecture Suite

• 1.0 2003 12 01 (Revit 6.1)
• 2.0 2004 XX XX (Revit 6.1)
• 8.0 2005 08 23 (Revit 8.0) (17)
• 8.1 2005 04 12(Revit 8.1, AutoCAD 2006) (18)
• 9.0 2006 04 12 (Revit Building 9.0, AutoCAD 2007) (19)
• 9.1 2006 09 12 (Revit Building 9.1, AutoCAD 2007) (20)
• 2008 2007 04 12 (Revit Architecture 2008, AutoCAD 2008) (21)
• 2009 2008 04 15 (Revit Architecture 2009, AutoCAD 2009) (22)
• 2009.1 2008 09 15 (Revit Architecture 2009, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Architecture 2009) (23)

AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite

• 1.0 2005 06 01 (Revit Structure 1) (1)
• 2.0 2005 09 01 (Revit Structure 2) (2)
• 3.0 2006 04 12 (Revit Structure 3) (3)
• 4.0 2005 09 12(Revit Structure 4) (4)
• 2008 2007 04 12 (Revit Structure 2008, AutoCAD 2008) (5)
• 2009 2008 04 15 (Revit Structure 2009, AutoCAD 2009) (6)

AutoCAD Revit MEP Suite

• 1.0 2006 04 01 (Revit Systems 1) (1)
• 2.0 2006 09 01 (Revit Systems 2) (2)
• 2008 2007 04 12 (Revit MEP 2008, AutoCAD MEP 2008) (3)
• 2009 2008 04 15 (Revit MEP 2009, AutoCAD MEP 2008) (4)

If you add it all up and include Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP there are now 29 Releases of Revit since 1999. Not too shabby

From http://www.tripleddesign.com/wiki/index.php/RB_History

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