Autodesk has officially released Revit 2025, a highly anticipated update packed with over 50 new features and enhancements. This version focuses on six core pillars: design productivity, sustainability, analysis, interoperability, cloud & data, and documentation efficiency. Below, we explore the 10 most impactful features that every Revit user should know.
1. Create Walls with Auto Join and Lock
Revit 2025 introduces the ability to automatically join and lock adjacent architectural walls during modeling. This feature accelerates the process of creating complex wall systems by ensuring seamless connections.
Automatically join and lock adjacent walls in Revit 2025
Limitations to Note:
- Complex cut commands may not penetrate through both locked walls; only simple cuts will work.
- Auto Join and Auto Join & Lock are exclusively available for architectural walls.
- These options are not applicable to structural walls, face-based walls, stacked walls, or curtain walls.
- Newly created slanted walls cannot align with existing slanted or tapered walls, so Auto Join & Lock will not function in such cases.
- Existing adjacent walls modeled in previous Revit versions will not auto-join after upgrading to Revit 2025.
2. Toposolid Enhancements
Revit 2025 brings significant improvements to Toposolid tools, enhancing terrain modeling and site design capabilities.
Site Design – Excavations on Toposolid
Users can now use Floor, Roof, or Toposolid elements as cutting objects for Host Toposolids. The excavation volume is dynamically adjusted, allowing for precise removal of excavated sections. This feature provides better control over terrain cuts and enables undo actions for removed sections.
Site design with excavations on Toposolid in Revit 2025
Excavation Volume Parameters
Two new parameters have been introduced to track excavation volumes:
- Individual Excavation Volume: Displays the volume of a single excavation in the dialog box.
- Total Excavation Volume: Shows the cumulative volume removed from the Toposolid.
These parameters enable users to create schedules for excavation quantities, improving accuracy in earthwork calculations.
Excavation volume parameters in Revit 2025
Toposolid Smooth Shading
This feature allows users to apply smooth shading to Toposolid elements, enhancing their visual representation. It supports various visual styles, including shaded, consistent colors, textures, and realistic images.
Smooth shading for Toposolid in Revit 2025
Toposolid by Face
Users can now create Toposolids on any non-vertical face of a mass family. The “Related to Mass” property in the Properties palette confirms if the Toposolid originates from a mass. However, editing capabilities are limited, and selecting faces from different masses for a single Toposolid is not yet supported.
Creating Toposolid by face in Revit 2025
3. Single-Element or Empty Arrays in Families
Revit 2025 now allows users to flexibly adjust the number of elements in linear and radial arrays within the Family Editor. The array count parameter “n” can now be set to 1 or 0, enabling single-element or empty arrays.
Single-element or empty arrays in Revit 2025 families
4. Align and Distribute Annotations
The new Multiple Align tool enables users to align and evenly distribute text, tags, and keynotes with ease. This feature ensures consistency in annotation placement, improving the clarity of construction documents.
Align and distribute annotations in Revit 2025
5. Background Export to PDF
Revit 2025 introduces a background export option for PDF files. Users can now continue working while Revit processes PDF exports in the background, saving time and improving productivity.
Background PDF export in Revit 2025
6. Sheet Collections
The Sheet Collections feature allows users to group sheets flexibly, making it easier to create schedules and organize project structures. Notably, users can now create sheets with duplicate sheet numbers within different collections, enabling more adaptable project management.
Sheet Collections in Revit 2025
7. Coordination Model Changes
Building on the Coordination Models feature introduced in Revit 2024, Revit 2025 now includes automatic version checking for linked coordination models. Changes to objects are color-coded into three categories: added, modified, or deleted. Users can filter and search for specific changes by toggling category visibility.
This feature is supported for RVT and DWG file formats.
Coordination Model Changes in Revit 2025
8. Informed Design for Revit
Autodesk Informed Design is a cloud-based solution that integrates manufacturer product data into the early design phase. The Informed Design add-in for Revit allows designers to:
- Browse pre-designed manufacturer products compatible with Revit projects.
- Adjust products to meet building requirements while ensuring compliance with manufacturer specifications.
- Make informed design decisions to reduce project risks and prevent errors.
Informed Design for Revit 2025
9. Dynamo Updates 3.0.3
Dynamo for Revit 2025 includes new nodes and improvements that enhance interoperability with linked models and Revit geometry. Key updates include:
- Easier interaction with linked models.
- New Toposolid nodes for advanced terrain modeling.
- Enhanced geometric object handling.
These updates streamline workflows and improve the overall Dynamo experience.
Dynamo Updates 3.0.3 in Revit 2025
10. Revit Personal Accelerator UI
The Revit Personal Accelerator is a Windows application designed to optimize performance when working with Revit Cloud Models. Accessible from the Windows system tray, it includes new features such as:
- Viewing available PacCache storage.
- Adjusting the current limit (GB) for cache.
- Copying the PacCache folder location to the clipboard.
- Quick access to log files and help documentation.
The app is installed with Revit and can be updated via the Autodesk homepage or with new Revit releases.
Revit Personal Accelerator UI