Update 2018.2 is here and available for Microsoft Windows-based Revit products. This update is available to subscribers and current maintenance plan customers via your accounts portal or the in-product Autodesk Desktop App. Along with a number of bug fixes and stability improvements, this release also includes new functionality.
To start things off – the Revit 2018.2 update has a few goodies that provide improvements for all disciplines:
- Improved Section box controls – Improved section box grips (or controls) so that they are easier to select. This should make manipulating section box edge locations much easier and make it so that you don’t accidentally select something you did not want to.
- Project Browser Expand and Collapse – Added new right click menu options that allow you to expand or collapse everything in the project browser at once or just for the selected item in the tree.
- Improved Fill Pattern Dialog – Replaced the old fill pattern dialog with an updated dialog that has the solid fill pattern at the top of the dialog, the ability to search for patterns, allows for multi-selection and deletion of patterns, and is resizable (and remembers it’s size). Finally, when you’re editing a pattern, the dialog allows you to scale the pattern without having to reload it (plus it automatically previews the scale change). These changes reflect a number of different requests and should make working with fill patterns easier.
For duct and pipe detailing, there are a few gems as well…
- Change service and change size – You can now more easily iterate detailed pipe and duct layouts made up of MEP Fabrication Pipework and MEP Fabrication Ductwork. Revit provides the ability to change, for example, welded piping layouts to grooved layouts. The functionality also allows you to modify a selection of elements from one size to another.
- Visibility / Graphics Overrides on MEP Fabrication Elements – MEP Fabrication elements can now be color coded by applying a solid surface pattern in view settings.
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For mechanical design, here are some improvements to streamline
deployment and production…
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P&ID Modeler released as an add-in shortly after Revit 2018.1 was released is now incorporated into 2018.2. This streamlines the process of creating a model based on P&IDs.
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Direction Arrows on Duct and Pipe Connectors – When using connect-into and analytical connections, the connectors on MEP elements now indicate their flow direction, making it easier to identify the desired connection to connect to.
We hope you like the Revit 2018.2 update release and that the smaller things we’ve added make you more productive. Above we have only listed a few of the many updates available to our subscribers but if you want more information on any of the features we outlined above or want to know how to access this update, contact our Technical Team.
