RS has been further enhanced in 2012 and provides new platform server support for VMWare and Windows 2008 server release 2. Revit Server was introduced as part of the mid-year subscription drop my blog article back in October provides an overview of RS if you need to know more. So back to the Revit Architecture 2012 I will just be covering the Architectural and major platform enhancements and features I am sure others will do a better technical review of Structure and MEP improvements than I will do. Fair enough, this is a simplistic view on the situation and it is probably not as black and white as what I have described, as there are many factors that could and will disrupt the development process. It is the architect as well as the contractor’s responsibilities to work within the budget constraints and to deliver the product on time. In our case, we are the clients, we decide what we want and propose this to the researchers (the architect), the researchers then work with the developers (the contractor) to see how best to actually build the design. This was extremely enlightening my overall opinion was that it was very similar to how the AEC industry works.

I was fortunate enough to sit in on one of the development meetings where the concept scoping document was being discussed on a particular feature in this release. In fact when I visited Autodesk last year I go an early preview of some of the work that was taking place. Similar to last year, the alpha for this release started particular early, so those involved in this feedback process got a good insight into what was being proposed.

Today Autodesk announced details of the 2012 AEC portfolio and once again this is my yearly roundup / review of the Autodesk Revit Architecture product.

Autodesk revit architecture 2012 update