Revit Rundown - 2025 Edition

 Well fuck a duck and call me quacky - 2025 Revit is here, and you know what that means...

Not a whole lot.

But hey, as long as we're here, let's take a look!

This Iist is brought to us by some jerkoff Revit loving site called 'BIMSMITH', and even they had trouble making it sound like Autodesk did anything other than rearrange some deck chairs. 

We'll start off with a new version of 'Revit Home' with access to your cloud data...  They claim this 'new home experience brings a consistent, modern, and easier to use homepage that provides a more seamless method of finding models and versions to (laugh) speed up your work flow.

Seriously. It's gonna go downhill from here. 

Next is 'Sheet Collections', which would be a great way for someone with a Mexican accent to describe every version of Revit up to this point.

Then we move on to 'Small Linear Array in Family Editor' - the description of which is 'you can now create small linear arrays that can go down to 1, or (gasp) 0!!!'

Moving on, it's 'Align and Distribute Text Tags and Keynotes', claiming that 'gone are the days of your OCD forcing you to make each adjustment to annotations one-by-one'. Amusing that they can make light of what can be a debilitating mental issue, while also acknowledging that it took until 2025 to be able to align fucking keynotes for fuck's sake. 

And... We're already scraping the bottom of the barrel with the ability to disable/enable wall end wrappings in Canvas. They gave you an *icon* ya'll!!! 

And if that wasn't exciting enough, get a 'load' of this - 'Excavate on Toposolid' is another 'New Feature'. I know of exactly *zero* people who are using Revit to do topography, or who would trust it to calculate volume of excavation.

While we are on the topic of 'new features nobody needs, or asked for' - now you can simplify toposolids too! And don't forget the ability to 'Model By Face Toposolid'!!! And (holy shit!) SMOOTH TOPOSOLIDS!!! (Edit: I just happened to glance back at my 2024 rundown and noticed that 'Simplify Toposolids' was on last years list - with much the same description).

THAT'S FOUR WHOLE NEW FEATURES (out of a list of 20 - otherwise known as 20%) dedicated to MOTHERFUCKING TOPOSOLIDS!!!

It gets more insulting though - because guess what? Now you can use a new rendering engine to 'dramatically improve' the generation of.... (wait for it...) MATERIAL THUMBNAILS!!! 

Then get ready - because you won't have to adjust the width of column dividers every time you open the box because IT REMEMBERS WHAT THE FUCK YOU TOLD IT TO DO NOW!!!

And hold onto your fucking hat, because you can ADD AND DELETE MORE THAN ONE MATERIAL IN THE MATERIAL BROWSER AT A TIME NOW!!!

Now take that hat and eat that fucking thing, because you'll never guess... Oh never fucking mind - it's the ability to have properties (and type properties) in ALPHANUMERICAL ORDER!!!

YES!!! 

BUT THERE'S MORE!!! ROOM PERIMETER ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT!!!

AND

AUTO-JOIN AND LOCK WHEN PLACING WALLS AS A FINISH!!!

Okay, okay, everyone calm the fuck down - oh for fucks sake Jeremy, put your cock back in your pants!!!

Because it's time (cue the kettle drums) for the (cue the smoke machines and laser lights) for the one, the only... (cue sad trombone)... 'New Electrical Feature'... 

Single-Phase within Three-Phase Power Systems

I... Just can't even... 

But no time to dwell on Autodesk's complete disdain for my discipline (I'll throw in a few more from Augi's MEP specific rundown at the end)...

It's time for 'Text Alignment for Multiple Selected Texts'!!! Whaaaa?!?!? 

And just when you thought it couldn't suck any harder - it's 'Dynamo for Revit Updates'!!! That's right folks, *substantial* additions that make it easier to work with linked models, interact with Revit Geometry, and generate topography using our new favorite buzzword 'Toposolid' nodes.

Just in case you lovers of dark themes thought you were getting left out - you no longer have to be 'blinded by the light' (their words) when using schedules.

Funny story... When I first had Revit forcibly inserted into my ocular orifice, one of my biggest complaints was that I was stuck staring at a white screen (changing the background to black wasn't an option because the stupid fucking thing couldn't invert colors), and probably set off my disdain of it from day one. But guess what? 

Now they have 'Automatic Color Conversion for ALL views in Dark Theme!!! And it only took them... A metric fuckton of time to get with the program.

Amusingly, there were two comments on the 'BIMSMITH' page - the first from 'Allex' read 'Autodesk, as usual, did nothing, but called it a new version of Revit...' - and another from 'Michelle that read 'Agreed, it is a very disappointing short list again.'

So, that's it - OR IS IT? 

I decided to swing by Augi (Autodesk's Unbelievably Gullible Inbreeders) to see if they had anything to add, and found an article by Jason Peckovitch who echoed the previous sentiment - calling this release (at the risk of being excoriated by the Revit faithful) 'quite lackluster'.

He repeats the one about single phase electrical components (although neither article goes into any detail as to exactly what this would mean - something that Mr. Peckovitch points out is an issue with many of the 'new feature' descriptions).

Then something about disable mark auto-generation - with a bit at the end about it probably being a good reason not to use Mark and Type Mark parameters, so that's special.

On to 'MEP Parameters' - where the ability has been added to have a 'maximum number of circuits' for data panel schedules (along with Mr Peckovitch's question of whether or not anyone actually uses said schedules).

'Report Low Voltage Panels' is next - with a vague description of what this would consist of.

He mentions that Material Gauge has been added to Fabrication duct work as a read only parameter - which was previously only available for design ductwork - so that's great.

He then does a rundown of general features (because he ran out of MEP specific ones almost immediately.  Some were mentioned before (like sheet collections, and multiple text alignment), but some are new like...

'Background Export to .pdf' - that's right, instead of staring at Revit blankly (i.e. the default Reviteer state) while it grinds out some .pdfs - you can keep 'working'.

He tosses out a quick blurb about 'Autodesk Insight' (requiring the installation of 'Carbon Insights Add-On' in Revit) that has something to do with environmental impact, as well as 'gbXML v7.03 Update' which has to do with importing 3rd party HVAC loads, and then support for five newly supported Horizontal Coordinate Systems, before mentioning Filter Discipline Updates (something to do with new categories from the 2022 release no longer showing up in Visibility/Graphics overrides, or whatever).

With the bottom of the barrel suitably scraped clean, we flip the barrel over and continue with... 

'Extensible Storage Improvements' where he goes on and on about 'schemas' which are data structures created by add-ins in a model or family's extensible storage - which apparently caused conflicts if a vendor recycled the software code and ID in an add-in.

If the above sentence strikes you as something you should have to worry about, you'll be glad to know that in 2025 you can deal with these conflicts better now (apparently Mr Peckovitch ran into issues with this, so I'm sure he's happy that they decided to unfuck it for him).

Further padding out the list is .NET 8 Upgrade (from .NET 4.8l, IFC Export Category Mapping Templates, and 'Improved MEP Fabrication Modeling' - so... Yay? 

If it wasn't already crystal clear, Autodesk has fucked the dog (that's the saying right?) when it comes to Revit. Their paltry lists of 'improvements further solidifying their position on the topic as 'fuck you', and so I bid you, good reader, a fond adieu until 2026.

As always, fuck an Autodesk, fuck a Revit, fuck a 'tard - you probably like it lubed with lard.

Yours, sincerely, et cetera,

-Skullfuck

(Next time: 2025 Autocad?)