Many of the updates in Revit 2019 are a result of suggestions and feedback from the Revit idea’s page. With over 2000 votes on the top two requested features that are now in Revit 2019, it has become more easier to have your input what can directly influence the product development.

Following the release of the public roadmap of Revit, the software development has focused on three main areas:

Design

Improved creation of filters (OR in filters)

Gain greater control over your view graphics. View filters now support “OR” conditions allowing for much more robust rules enabling greater graphical control.

Multi-monitor support and tabbed views

Maximize working space and control views by tabbing and tiling open views, customized tiling and dragging views to secondary monitors.

Levels in 3D views

Understand and manipulate important datum heights in your project with the option to display levels in 3D views.

Uncropped perspective views

Onscreen perspective 3D views can be uncropped allowing freedom of movement and a more immersive experience when viewing and working within your model.

Dimensions for curved objects in section views

Precise documentation enhances the end-to-end workflow for bridges as well as supports documentation for complex architectural forms.

Double fill patterns

Applyboth foreground and background fill pattern to materials and filled regions. Create more complex patterns by layering two fill patterns on surfaces and cuts.

View projection modes

Switching back and forth between default 3D and perspective has been streamlined. You can easily toggle from one to the other with the Projection Mode control on the Properties palette.

Scope box improvements

Consistent behavior of levels across 2D and 3D views.

Optimize

With Revit 2019, we’re striving to make it easier for you to efficiently make informed decisions about your design.  This includes optimizations that help you interact more efficiently and work more productively.

Complex piping networks

Improved pressure drop analysis for complex networks supports separation of hydronic piping systems into primary, secondary, and tertiary loops and further as needed.

Parallel pump analysis

Set up and analyze pumps in parallel in hydronic piping networks, easily compute flow from duty and standby pump quantities.

Connect

New Revit 2019 features further empower  multidisciplinary teams by helping to connect both data and project teams across the project lifecycle.

Tools for detailed Steel Design enable more streamlined design-to-fabrication workflows

With Revit 2019 you can easily modify structural framing and column elements using new edit tools and apply custom parametric cuts to better accommodate the geometry of elements for a steel connection. Steel components like plates, bolts, anchors, shear studs, and welds can now be placed in the 3D model to connect structural members together. A more accurately defined design model in Revit enables better interoperability with Advance Steel for steel detailing and fabrication. With engineering documentation for steel, you can create accurate, in-canvas detailed engineering documentation for structural steel, including details with standard and custom steel connections to communicate requirements, layouts and to coordinate with detailers and fabricators.

Custom steel connections

Ability to create your own steel connections.

Engineering documentation for steel

Create accurate engineering documentation for structural steel.

Free-form rebar shape matching

Enhanced 3D modeling and communication of fabrication instructions.

Precast girder slabs automation

Enhanced and automated design-to-fabrication process.

Design, Optimize, Connect

In conclusion, Revit 2019 comes through with new features and enhancements that that help multidisciplinary teams deliver projects more productively. With a more immersive and modern user experience, Revit continues to support efficient design and drive innovation. You can model more of your design while in a 3D view for the immersive design experience you prefer. Revit 2019 enables a better workflow between design and detailing with tools that let you model to a higher level of detail, creating better-coordinated and more accurate steel and concrete models.

AutoCAD including specialized toolsets

When you subscribe to AutoCAD 2019, you gain access to all the capabilities of the industry-specific toolsets and libraries including Mechanical, Architecture, Electrical, MEP, and more. No matter the design challenge, you’ll always have the right tool at hand.

You can design more quickly with industry-specific capabilities that allow you to access to libraries of symbols, parts and detail components. This will allow you to work faster by automating the creation of annotations, layers, and properties making you more efficient in extending workflows across disciplines.

AutoCAD web & mobile apps

The new AutoCAD web app and enhanced AutoCAD mobile app, provides fast, seamless access to DWG files wherever you are, from virtually any device. This type of apps make it possible to continue your CAD work with the most up-to-date files while on-the-go.

Extend your workflows with the ability to edit, annotate, view, and create your DWGs in the web and mobile apps. Rely on the AutoCAD web and mobile apps to deliver familiar, powerful tools and reach your peak productivity instantly.

AutoCAD new features 

DWG Compare

DWG Compare overlays two drawings and highlights the differences between them. This makes it easy to review and understand what parts of the drawings have changed.

Shared Views

Shared Views is an enhancement to the “Share Design Views” feature that allows you to publish design views to a URL so you can share drawings and get feedback from clients and stakeholders without sharing the DWG files. Now it is much faster to upload a file to your browser, it’s easier for drafters to respond to feedback directly in AutoCAD and you have more control over what the collaborator can see and do.

Updated user interface

More than 200 dialog boxes and other User Interface elements have been updated to ensure the best possible viewing experience on 4K displays and higher.

Views and viewports

A new Named Views panel is added to the View ribbon tab with tools to easily create, restore, and edit named views. The View dropdown list in the panel allows you to easily restore named views by selecting it from the dropdown list. The New View tool offers a simplified version of the New View/Shot Properties dialog box with only the most basic controls for creating a new view.