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#RTCNA Revit 1.0! Check this out pic.twitter.com/K4k5HkYhbV— Paul F. Aubin (@paulfaubin) June 19, 2014
Tag: revit history
Lot’s of screenshots getting tweeted, like:
You might also be interested in some more Revit History at:
Revit Launch
Revit Promo Video and Screenshots
Revit Release 3
Revit 4.0 video
Similar:
Cleaning out my home office and came across my first versions of @Autodesk AutoCAD (2.18) and Revit (1.01) pic.twitter.com/HHGBofLwHH
— TroyGates (@TroyGates) November 2, 2015
If you ever want to know when each Revit version came out, check out this page by David Conant:
Revit Timeline (W.I.P.)
So how many of you have used Revit 0.1 (November 1999)?
Revit 0.1 (1999)
Revit 0.2 – 2.1 (2000)
Revit 3.0 – 4.0 (2001)
Revit 4.1 – 5.0 (2002)
Revit 5.1 – 6.0 (2003)
Revit 6.1 – 7.0 (2004)
Revit 8.0 – 8.1 (2005)
Revit 9.0 (2006)
Revit 2008 (2007)
Revit 2009 (2008)
Revit 2010 (2009)
Revit 2011 (2010)
Revit 2012 (2011)
Revit 2013 (2012
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Google Translate
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http://revitturkiye.blogspot.com/2012/04/revit-versiyonlar-revit-versions.html
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
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
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| 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
Just viewed a great class by Steve Shell:
Tips and Tricks for Autodesk® Revit® Graphic and Visualization Techniques to Make Your Drawings Look Great!
I thought this sample of project he did in Revit in 2003 was very cool:
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| All credit goes to Steven Shell for this image |
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:
I love these history posts. This particular one tracks the development of Autodesk, Bentley and Graphisoft with particular regard to BIM.
Check it out via: Google Translate
or original post: Revitualizados – Autodesk News: Cronologia do BIM
Does this sound a bit like Revit’s history?
“A team of scrappy entrepreneurs, eking a living out of a bit of venture capital, working 80 hours a week will introduce something that is incredibly and overwhelmingly elegant in concept and use (even if a bit rough around the edges).”
“position yourself to acquire this new technology. Pull out the checkbook. Done. This solves the hiring process and getting new teams to gel together issue (they’ve likely been together for years)…an acquisition is fast and quick; what’s done is done.”
From
Arch | Tech: Please Give Me Another Chance! I Can Change!:
And to me, this is why Autodesk will succeed where Graphisoft and Bentley and those other BIM companies will fail. They just aren’t big enough to acquire all the nice new technology. Any thoughts?
