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Screenshots of Pre-Release Revit

Luke Johnson

From the description by uploader Alex Neihaus on Youtube:
 the screens shown were pre-release versions of the product, the music was an original composition (not stock music) and at an AIA convention, Revit rented a 20,000 watt stereo system and mounted it in a 16-foot glass tower to overpower the competition. The video was produced on a then massively sophisticated Avid system with something like 54 layers in Watertown, MA.

Here is the promo video:
 

I extracted some screenshots out of it, and here they are – prerelease Revit!

Heads-up:
https://twitter.com/RTVTools/status/436440176848416768

Some history

Luke Johnson

There have recently been a few posts in the blogosphere about Revit and Autodesk history.  I have here collected links to some of the more interesting ones, as well as links from previous posts on What Revit Wants that deal with Revit history.

The Building Coder: The Genesis of Revit and its API
This is an excellent history post with interviews from key players.

Phil Read and Revit – history

Arch | Tech: 11 Years Ago (Yesterday) – the soft drink machines didn’t even need money!

Autodesk – 30 years of history

BDExpert article (translated)

Previous posts dealing with Revit history:
A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 1

Assume Revit nets $100/mo per subscription. That means they need 5,000 subscriptions just to break even. “The question is,” summarizes Brad, “How long will it take to ramp up to 5,000 subscriptions?”
 
A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 2

A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 3

First round of venture capital was in 1998.
First lines of code were written in 1998. 

A li’l bit of Revit history…Part 4 (Revit 5 Features)

Align, split, trim, offset tools
These editing tools are like their CAD equivalents, but better.

Revit History – Revit Release 3 – AUGI Forums

Revit History – Revit 4.1 packaging

Credit to David Light

Revit History – Revit 4.0 video

Timeline of BIM Software Development
· 1982 – Autodesk was founded
· 1983 – Autodesk Launches AutoCAD version 1.2
· 1989 – Parametric Technology Corporation introduces the first version of Pro / ENGINEER
· 1992 – Autodesk Launches AutoCAD 12 for DOS and becomes synonymous with CAD
· 1997 – Charles River Software founded. Foundation development team came from Parametric Technology Corporation
· Charles River Software renamed as Revit Technology Corporation
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Revit Timeline – History of Revit software and companies
Versions:
1.0 2000 04
2.0 2000 08
2.1 2000 10
3.0 2001 02
3.1 2001 06
4.0 2001 11
4.1 2002 01

Revit 2003 was still pretty great

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revit Timeline – History of Revit software and companies

Luke Johnson

Steve Stafford tweeted a link to this thread. It shows the major milestones in Revit development, including company acquisitions, product renaming and discipline-specific additions.  For example, here are the release dates of the very early versions:
Revit Technology Corporation
1.0 2000 04
2.0 2000 08
2.1 2000 10
3.0 2001 02
3.1 2001 06
4.0 2001 11
4.1 2002 01

Read more at:
Revit Timeline (W.I.P.) – AUGI

If you want to see a video of version 4:
Revit History – Revit 4.0 video

And here is a screenshot of version 3: