Explore the latest in Autodesk Revit® 2025! Discover new capabilities transforming site design, upgraded concrete and steel modeling tools, and innovative Total Carbon Analysis with Autodesk Insight. Explore enhancements for structural and MEP engineers, including advanced analysis and fabrication support. Plus, witness community-inspired features like sheet collections and improved wall joins. Dive into seamless connectivity with Autodesk Docs and enhanced openBIM workflows. Take advantage of these game-changing updates driven by your feedback and ideas.
Topics to be covered:
- Sheet Collections
- Walls with Auto Join & In Canvas Wrapping Control
- MEP Model Consistency Check
- Split Feature for Framing with Connections
- Toposolid Enhancements
- Background Export to PDF
- And many more!
Key Enhancements in Autodesk Revit 2025
Revit 2025 introduces a wide range of productivity, sustainability, analysis, and interoperability improvements. These updates impact all disciplines, making Revit more efficient, flexible, and powerful for architects, engineers, and designers.
Design Productivity Enhancements
Walls with Auto Join & In-Canvas Wrapping Control
One of the biggest productivity enhancements in Revit 2025 is automatic wall joining. When creating architectural walls, users can now automatically join or join and lock newly created walls with adjacent ones.
- Doors and windows will now perforate both walls when auto-joined.
- Complex cuts will not cut through both aligned and locked walls, but simple cuts (like those for doors and windows) will.
- Auto-join does not work for slanted or tapered walls, but users can still manually join these walls if needed.
- Walls from older Revit versions will not auto-join when upgrading but can be manually adjusted.
Additionally, wall end wrapping can now be enabled or disabled in plan views. A new toggle icon allows users to control wrapping behavior visually. This eliminates manual workarounds and improves accuracy in detailing.
Sheet Collections for Organized Workflows
Revit 2025 introduces Sheet Collections, allowing users to group sheets into flexible categories for better project organization.
- Multiple sheets can now share the same number within different collections.
- Sheets can be easily dragged and dropped between collections in the project browser.
- New parameters for sheet collections enable referencing in views, schedules, and callout bubbles, improving documentation clarity.
This feature significantly enhances drawing set management, making it easier to organize and reference different submission sets.
Toposolid Enhancements for Site Design
Following last year’s shift from toposurfaces to toposolids, Revit 2025 continues to improve site modeling tools:
- Convert legacy toposurfaces to toposolids while retaining excavation areas.
- Cut toposolids with floors, roofs, and other toposolids for advanced grading and excavation workflows.
- Track excavation volumes with two new parameters: individual excavation volume and total excavation volume, making site material calculations easier.
- Smoothed toposolid shading removes the triangulated appearance for more realistic terrain visualization in shaded, realistic, or textured views.
Additionally, contour lines now remain visible when editing toposolids, making it easier to adjust and refine topography.
Split Feature for Framing with Connections
Previously, steel framing and columns with connections could not be split without removing the connection first. Now, Revit 2025 allows users to split steel framing and columns while retaining connections, ensuring a more streamlined workflow for steel detailing.
Cloud and Data Enhancements
Background Export to PDF
A highly requested feature, PDF exports now run in the background, allowing users to continue working while Revit processes exports.
Enhanced Coordination Model Tracking
Revit 2025 improves collaboration with Autodesk Docs by allowing users to track changes in linked coordination models. Users can:
- See an overview of added, modified, or deleted objects in a coordination model.
- Filter changes by category to focus on specific updates.
This improves workflow efficiency by ensuring users can track external model updates in real-time.
Sustainability & Total Carbon Analysis
Carbon Insights with Autodesk Insight
Revit 2025 introduces Total Carbon Analysis through Autodesk Insight, allowing designers to:
- Analyze embodied carbon impacts at early design stages.
- Compare material choices and structural systems for carbon-efficient decisions.
- Use dashboards to visualize total embodied carbon by construction type, material type, and area.
This feature leverages EC3 database factors and enables custom metrics for carbon assessment, making sustainable design decisions more informed.
Autodesk Forma & Enhanced Site Analysis
The Forma add-in for Revit enables two-way data transfer between Revit and Forma, ensuring:
- Seamless updates between conceptual and detailed models.
- Solar and carbon analysis tools for sustainable design decisions.
- Integration with Rhino for better cross-platform workflows.
Interoperability & OpenBIM
IFC Export Improvements
Revit 2025 enhances IFC export mapping with:
- Customizable templates for IFC exports, ensuring consistent classification.
- STEP file support, allowing seamless data exchange with non-Revit CAD programs.
- Expanded horizontal coordinate system support for better geolocation accuracy.
Dynamo 3.0.3 for Automation
For Dynamo users, Revit 2025 introduces:
- New toposolid nodes for automated site modeling.
- Enhanced search features, allowing users to filter nodes by category.
- Better handling of linked model geometry, improving automation for multi-model workflows.
Structural & MEP Enhancements
Rebar Modeling Enhancements
Revit 2025 enhances rebar workflows by enabling:
- Rebar splicing at any position, with control over lap length and staggered layouts.
- Locking rebar constraints to prevent accidental changes when modifying concrete geometry.
- Displaying bending details in rebar tags, improving fabrication documentation.
Improved MEP Workflows
For MEP engineers, Revit 2025 introduces:
- Fabrication parts search & image management, making data editing easier.
- Support for single-phase loads in analytical models, enhancing power distribution calculations.
- Circuit validation warnings, preventing overloaded panel configurations.
- New material gauge parameters for ductwork, improving fabrication documentation.
Conclusion
Autodesk Revit 2025 delivers major enhancements across all disciplines, improving design efficiency, documentation workflows, and sustainability analysis. With features like automatic wall joining, enhanced site modeling, IFC export improvements, and Total Carbon Analysis, Revit continues to evolve as a powerful BIM tool.