On install of Revit 2019, you will have the following install choices:

There are no changes in the Options dialog from Revit 2018 to 2019, except for the new Steel tab and tools ribbon option (under Structure tab and tools):

This is what the Steel ribbon looks like:

Clicking Help will take you to Help content pages that don’t exist yet (oops). I’m sure this will be rectified soon.

Build numbers are 19.0.0.405 and 20180216_1515(x64)

Launching Dynamo from Revit 2019 will reveal that the Dynamo version has been upgraded to 1.3.3.4111. As some have mentioned, this version does not run on Revit 2016. So you will have to run multiple Dynamo versions and be aware of any file incompatibility if you want to use Dynamo on Revit 2016 and Revit 2019 simultaneously. The installation process should pick up your custom package paths and any Recent Files too.

Add-ins tab reveals that the following items previously considered Subscription Enhancements are included and installed out of the box:

  • Batch Print
  • eTransmit
  • Model Review
  • Worksharing Monitor

 

The biggest change you are likely to notice is that you now have Tabbed Views, and an updated interface for controlling docked panels.

I compared the built in category list from Revit 2018 and Revit 2019, and these are the new Categories in Revit 2019:

API Name Visible Name
OST_StructConnectionHoleTags Hole Tags
OST_StructConnectionShearStudTags Shear Stud Tags
OST_StructConnectionProfilesTags Profile Tags
OST_StructConnectionBoltTags Bolt Tags
OST_MechanicalEquipmentSetTags Mechanical Equipment Set Tags
OST_StructConnectionAnchorTags Anchor Tags
OST_MechanicalEquipmentSetBoundaryLines Mechanical Equipment Set Boundary Lines
OST_StructConnectionWeldTags Weld Tags
OST_StructConnectionPlateTags Plate Tags
OST_MechanicalEquipmentSet Mechanical Equipment Sets

 

On a final note… the Revit icon hasn’t changed for the last couple of years, so I made this Revit 2019 icon for you 🙂 Just download it and set as the icon for Revit 2019. Also, I’m sure you can do better than my attempt if you spend more than 30 seconds in Windows Paint:

I guess I need to have a Revit 2016 new features post, even if I don’t have a lot to say right now… I have started putting together a list of Revit 2016 videos at the end of this post too. I have to say, I miss the days when there was just one good, long post about new features and everyone just linked to that one 🙂

My top feature for Revit 2016? I suppose its the MEP fabrication integration. Even if its not one-click, design to fabrication solution yet, I personally think that any effort made to make fabrication from Revit easier or more predictable is definitely a step in the right direction.

There is a good list of links over at  What’s New in Revit 2016 | The BIMsider

List of resources, posts and articles:
Updated:
Inside the Factory: Revit 2016 | Project Performance – Part 1
Inside the Factory: Revit 2016 | Project Performance – Part 2
Inside the Factory: Revit 2016 | Project Performance – Part 3

Revit 2016 New Features – Multi-Disciplinary Enhancements | CADLearning

RevitCat – RevitCat: What’s New in Revit 2016

Revittize – Revittize: Revit 2016 What’s new
(Mathew mentions the Place Rooms Automatically feature…)

Autodesk – Revit 2016 List of new Features ,
Autodesk Unveils 2016 Suites for Building and Civil Infrastructure Industries, 
BIM & BEAM: Rebar Constraints Improvements in Autodesk Revit 2016

Revit Kid – Revit 2016 Available Now: For Students and Professional

Revit OpEd – That Time of Year Again – Revit 2016, Revit 2016 – Place Rooms Automatically, Revit 2016 – Open Sheet, 2016 – Multiline Text Parameter Type, 2016 – Multiline Text Follow Up, Revit 2016 – New Door Content

AECbytes – Revit 2016’s New Physical-Realistic Rendering Engine

cadline – What’s new in Revit 2016?

Revit Rants – Revit 2016 What’s New? – A Commentary

BIMopedia blog – What’s New in Revit 2016?

CADLearning – Revit 2016 New Features – A First Look

imaginit – Revit 2016 New Features – IMAGINiT Building Solutions Blog

BIM Toolbox – What’s new in Revit 2016

Revit beyond BIM – Gravity Analysis for Revit 2016

TenLinks – Autodesk Ships 2016 Design Suites

Autodesk Revit Structure – Revit Structure 2016 – New features

BIM Jedi – Revit 2016 and the new Energy Analysis Features

the Revit Geek – Revit 2016 Content

Videos:
Massive playlist:

32 minutes about Revit 2016 API:
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Rather than get lost in the flood of Revit 2014 information, I thought I would wait until closer to the time that most people will actually start installing and using it.  The post below is just a collection of my notes and things that I find particularly interesting or exciting about the 2014 release – oh, and there are some pretty cool tips included too 🙂

Non-rectangular crops can be locked
You can lock the edges of multiple Plan view non rectangular Crop Regions to a set of model lines.  Nudging the lines will adjust the sketch in all ‘locked’ views.

Client based DWF review will probably die slowly and be replaced by web methods
Autodesk Design Review development is slowly stalling, and being replaced by cloud-based collaboration methods.  Nothing really new here, but one day we will probably say goodbye to standalone DWF viewers in lieu of web viewing and markup tools.

Exploding ACIS
For this to work, the source import should be a 3D ACIS solid from AutoCAD or a SAT file from Inventor, Rhino or similar.

Note:  3D DXF isn’t really a “solid” model (probably depending on version), it’s likely a surface model.

Double-click to edit anything
Be sure to turn off Drag Elements on Selection to prevent accidental moving of elements

New Selection controls in the Status Bar
Don’t forget to try these out

Vault integration
Finally starting to become something useful for everyday Revit users…

Inventor to Revit conversion / BIM Exchange Environment and Inventor simplification
A combination of these tools allow you to simplify Inventor models and export them to RFA files for use in Revit.

File size gains can be pretty convincing:

From CADline Community

You can read more about this at:
Inventor 2014 to Revit 2014 – Blog – CADline Community

Schedule Formatting
Click the column top (letter) to select the whole column and change font for that column.

Dockable Palettes
Can be docked at top of screen.

Non-rectangular crop regions – limitation
Annotation crops are still rectangular only

Slow install?
Could be because content is being downloaded during install.  Un-tick content packs to try to speed up the install.

Tabbed Browser Panel
For example, drag Properties on top of Project Browser.  Tabs are at bottom.

Project Browser Organization
Can now have more (up to 6) ‘levels’ of grouping.

Displacement set tips
How to set up nested levels of displacement:

  1. Select a wall with a window & Displace both of these
  2. Tab select the Window and Displace it again
  3. If you reset the window it will go back to its original location, to get it back in the wall you need to select the wall’s displacement set, Edit and Add the Window to that Set.

You may find it easier to displace a single element first, and then use the Edit / Add functionality to put other elements into that Displacement set.

Citrix Licensing
BDSP version of Revit 2014 (Onebox) will now be supported in Citrix environment
(removed the need for special licensing to be used for either Citrix virtualization methods, no concerns about obtaining Citrix certification and QA support for all products in a Suite)

As per the System Requirements / Citrix:
Dedicated Autodesk license server for session-specific licenses

Revit 2014 will “fix” duplicated lower and uppercase parameters in Families (link)

The oft-reposted 2014 Schedule Tips (link)
Shows how formatting can be added to a template file (even if there is no real data in the model)

More on this here

Village BIM also reminds us that Generic Model Schedules can now schedule the volume parameter.

Optimized View Navigation
Enabling the Optimized View Navigation makes it so ‘while’ you Pan, Zoom and Swivel some display aspects simply get disabled until the action is over…

It does not have any effect when in Realistic or Ray Trace mode however.

If the Optimized View Navigation is enabled it suppresses the display of: fill patterns (including materials), all element ‘edges’, all shadows and mechanical / structural hidden lines.

Read more:
REVIT Rocks !: REVIT 2014 Optimized View Navigation Video

Videos:

An interesting quote on implementation from Dave Light’s post:

where once BIM managers wanted to roll the latest version of Revit out to their staff on projects, they are now taking a more pragmatic approach to deployment & often holding back for 12 months or even skipping a release.

Steve:
assigning a keyboard shortcut to the Properties Palette gives me the illusion of switching between the Project Browser and Properties Palette quickly.
Revit OpEd: Switch Between Palette and Browser with Keyboard Shortcut

A free ebook with videos:
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 New Features and Enhancements – Revealed
(250 mb download link here for offline use – you can use 7zip to extract the EXE and gain direct access to mp4 video files etc)
(2.9 mb download of reader link here)

More:
What’s New in Autodesk Revit 2014? – User Interface and Selection Updates – ASCENT Blog

REVIT Rocks !: #REVIT2014 Video Tutorial on Electrical Lighting Wiring Circuits and System Browser

Whats new in Revit 2014 – Institute of Technical Design

Google Translate

Autodesk Revit 2014 New Features List and 30 Minute Video Review | Bradley BIM

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://t.co/mg2rBIFI5F

Some download and installation tips:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://revitde.blogspot.com/2013/05/download-und-installation-von-revit-2014.html

Just in case you missed it:
http://www.livestream.com/autodesk/video?clipId=pla_9d701de9-a386-4bc7-91ab-be3621c5b6e8&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

Watch live streaming video from autodesk at livestream.com

You can download for offline viewing using something like rtmpdump or Coojah / Blader.  I used rtmpdump with rtmpdumphelper.

EDIT try using rtmpdump version 2.5, with the rtmpsrv method

Today is the 21 March 2014.  Last year, the NDA was lifted on Revit 2013 around 27 March.  There have been whispers of Revit 2014 features getting released on the LARUG blog, over at Revit OpEd and a few things happening on Twitter.  LARUG even has a little countdown widget to – guess which date – March 27, 2013.

So, I think I’ll just get ahead of the game a bit here…
To find out all the new features of Revit 2014, head over to http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com.au/ (insert sub page here: [http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/whats-new-in-revit-2014.html] on or around March 27 🙂

Just for reference, this was Dave Light’s post from last year, posted 27 March (it still gets reposted nearly every week to someone’s blog, somewhere in the world):
Revit: What’s new in Autodesk Revit 2013?

You are going to see lots and lots and lots and lots of blog posts about Revit 2013 very soon …

EDIT – Official Autodesk link – http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/revit_2013_comparison_matrix.pdf

Here is one that should provide you with a quick overview of the new features:
http://www.cadac.com/nl/brochures/Documents/autodesk-revit-mep-2013-comparison-matrix-en.pdf

Note – you can find this document by typing revit 2013 release comparison_matrix_en.pdf into a Google search …