The Revit Clinic

Revit 2015 - Update Release 1 & 2

If you have the Autodesk Application Manager installed hopefully you have seen these two updates.

Revit 2015 Update Release 1 was released previously.

Revit 2015 Update Release 2 is referred to as the Security Update.  This security update includes all Update Release 1 improvements.  Additionally it addresses Heartbleed vulnerability (a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library).

Here are the direct download links:

Revit 2015 Security Update

Revit Architecture 2015 Security Update

Revit LT 2015 Security Update

Revit MEP 2015 Security Update

Revit Structure 2015 Security Update

These links can also be found on the Revit Products Download page:

Autodesk Revit Products Downloads

After installing the Security Update the Revit 2015 build should be:

20140323_1530
Update Release 2

Revit 2015 - Revisions

Revit 2015 introduces some new revision tool functionality.  I’ve outlined the 3 biggest changes from 2014, along with some additional information: 

Draw Tools

Instead of a generic cloud tool that required a lot of clicks, the standard draw tools are now available.  Rectangle is set as the default for revision cloud sketches:

Delete Revisions

Revisions can now be deleted, which will remove the revision from the project and all associated clouds \ tags.  You cannot delete an issued revision:

Arc Length

On a project-wide basis you can control the maximum cloud segment size (the “double bubble”).  For example, if Arc Length is set to 2”, and you are drawing a revision cloud on a sheet directly, after the segment passes 2” a second segment would begin:

Some quick additional tidbits to keep in mind:

Sheet Scaling

With Revit 2015 revision clouds are treated similar to annotation and scale according to the view scale.  For example, if you were to draw the clouds directly on a sheet the exact arc length value would utilized.

Arc Length

Revit has always used a special “double bubble” cloud segment.  The Arc Length value refers to the maximum allowed sheet space size per double arc segment (see above Arc Length image).  

Upgrade Arc Length

By default the Arc Length is set to 3/4” for new 2015 projects.  If your previous-release project contains revision clouds, when you upgrade to Revit 2015 the Arc Length is set to 3 1/2”.  For most cases this will prevent revision cloud geometry changes on upgrade.  Then, on a project basis, you can set it to the desired size.

Small Segments

You can always create segments smaller than the specified Arc Length.

Revit Server 2014 Hotfix

I wanted to pass along the link for the Revit Server 2014 hotfix, for anyone that has experienced the following:

• Poor performance with Revit Server due to excessive calls to locateModel logic.
• Inability to save models to Revit Server 2014 due to a condition where "An item with the same key has already been added."

The direct link is included here:

Hotfix - Autodesk Revit 2014 – Revit Server