Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2010 61-Month License Windows DVD Educational Software

Features

Purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), Autodesk® Revit® Architecture building design software works the way architects and designers think, enabling you to design freely and deliver efficiently.

Core features of Autodesk Revit Architecture enable you to:

Work in a Way That Mirrors the Real World

Autodesk Revit Architecture building information modeling software enables architects to focus on designing buildings using a more intuitive process that mirrors the real world of architecture. As you design, Autodesk Revit Architecture software automatically creates accurate floor plans, elevations, sections, and 3D views, as well as area calculations, schedules, and quantity takeoffs based on your specifications. See your ideas realized on the fly with 3D views and fully rendered scenes. You can even make late-stage changes with full confidence that your plans, schedules, and construction documents will be fully coordinated.

Capture Early Design Thinking

Autodesk Revit Architecturecan enhance your conceptual building design efforts with features that enable you to gain clear insights earlier in the design process. Use conceptual design tools purpose-built for architects to freely explore forms and ideas. Support smarter, more sustainable design through the accurate analysis of materials, quantities, sun position, and solar effects. Provide essential BIM data for clash detection, construction analysis, and fabrication.

Deliver Projects More Efficiently

Exceed your clients' highest expectations and reap the business benefits of more efficient project delivery. From initial design through final construction, Autodesk Revit Architecture enables the entire team to work with a building information model. Communication breakdowns and costly errors are minimized while workflows are optimized. Fully informed decisions are easier to make early on and throughout the project, helping reduce reworks down the line.

Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software helps you gain a competitive advantage with tools that help keep all your design information better coordinated and more accurate.

New Conceptual Design Tools
Autodesk Revit Architecture software offers new easy-to-use conceptual design tools that support your creative flow. Sketch freely, create free-form models easily, and manipulate forms interactively. You can define forms and geometry as real building components for a smooth transition to design development and documentation. As you design, Autodesk Revit Architecture automatically builds a parametric framework around your forms, offering greater levels of control, accuracy, and flexibility. Take your design from concept model all the way to construction documents all in one environment.

Streamlined User Interface
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software features a sleek, new user interface that offers better desktop organization, a larger drawing window, and quick access to the tools and commands you need. You'll be able to find your favorite tools faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover new features more easily.

Bidirectional Associativity
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Autodesk Revit Architecture software, all model information is stored in one place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the model.

Schedules
Schedules are just another view of the Autodesk Revit Architecture model. A change to a schedule view is automatically reflected in every other view. Functionality includes associative split-schedule sections and selectable design elements via schedule views, formulas, and filtering.

Parametric Components
Parametric Components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Autodesk Revit Architecture. They offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making as well as an opportunity to express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use Parametric Components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for the most elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.

Design Options
Develop and study multiple simultaneous design alternatives to make key design decisions. Present multiple schemes to your clients easily. Substitute each option into the model for visualization, quantification, and other data analysis to better inform decision making.

Detailing
Take advantage of the extensive detail library and detailing tools that are part of Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010. Presorted to align with the CSI format, detail libraries can be tailored to accommodate your office standards. Create, manage, and share your own detail library.

Material Takeoff
Calculate detailed material quantities with this new tool. Appropriate for sustainable design and checking material quantities in cost estimates, Material Takeoff facilitates the tracking of material quantities. The parametric change engine helps ensure that your material takeoffs are accurate.

Revit Building Maker
The Revit Building Maker feature provides a seamless way to turn conceptual forms into functional designs. Select faces to generate walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. Use tools to extract important information about your building such as surface area or volume per floor. Conceptual forms may be created natively in Autodesk Revit Architecture or imported from applications such as AutoCAD®, form-Z, Rhino, Google SketchUp, or other ACIS- or NURBS-based applications into Autodesk Revit Architecture software as mass objects.

Interference Check
Use interference checking to scan your model for collisions between elements.

Design Visualization
Capture design ideas in a photorealistic state. With easy user interaction, high-quality output, and faster render times, the mental ray® rendering engine enables superior design presentation.

For more granular control over the rendered scene, use the Autodesk® FBX® file format to import your designs into Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. You'll get unmatched flexibility and control over how you visualize and present your work. Learn more about design visualization.

Native 64-bit Support
New native 64-bit support enhances Autodesk Revit Architecture's ability to handle large projects and improves performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.

Enhanced Interoperability
Interoperability enhancements enable you to work more efficiently with members of your extended project team. Now you can export your building model or site, complete with critical metadata, to AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software. And you can import accurate models from Autodesk® Inventor® 3D mechanical design software.

Autodesk 2D and 3D DWF Integration
Autodesk Revit Architecture software supports complete round-tripping of markups with Autodesk® Design Review software. Because Autodesk Design Review software's markup capabilities combine with Autodesk Revit Architecture navigation and revision management capabilities, tracking changes is easy. There's no need to re-enter information. Autodesk Revit Architecture supports publishing a model to 2D or 3D DWF™ format. This capability provides high-impact, dynamic communication of design information in a lightweight format. It's great for including nontechnical participants in the project review process.

System Requirements

System Requirements for 32-bit Autodesk Revit Architecture

• Microsoft® Windows Vista® 32-bit (SP1), including Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP1 or SP2) Professional or Home edition
• Intel® Pentium® 41.4 GHz or equivalent AMD® processor
• 3 GB RAM (1 GB RAM if no rendering is required)
• 5 GB free disk space
• 1280 x 1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 24-bit color
• Windows® Internet Explorer® 6.0 (SP1 or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• Download or installation from DVD
• Internet connection for license registration

System Recommendations for 32-bit Autodesk Revit Architecture

• Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
• Intel® Core™2 Duo 2.4 GHz or equivalent AMD processor
• 4 GB RAM
• 5 GB free disk space
• Dedicated video card with hardware support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9 (or later)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1 or later)
• Two-button mouse with scroll wheel

System Requirements for 64-bit Autodesk Revit Architecture

• Windows Vista 64-bit (SP1), including Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium edition, or Windows XP Professional (SP1) x64 edition
• Pentium 4 1.4 GHz or equivalent AMD processor
• 3 GB RAM
• 5 GB free disk space
• 1280 x 1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 24-bit color
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1 or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• Download or installation from DVD
• Internet connection for license registration

System Recommendations for 64-bit Autodesk Revit Architecture

• Windows XP Professional x64 edition (SP1 or later)
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.40GHz or equivalent AMD processor
• 8 GB RAM
• 5 GB free disk space
• Dedicated video card with hardware support for DirectX 9 (or later)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (or later)
• Two-button mouse with scroll wheel

Return Policy

Computer Products for Education (‘CPE’) can accept returns on most items within 14 days of delivery for a full product refund provided that the product is unopened and that you have first obtained a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number prior to returning the product to CPE. Software that has been opened and is defective may be exchanged for a replacement item of the same title and platform only. If the return is a direct result of an error by CPE, CPE will pay the return shipping costs. Outside of 14 days from delivery, defective products must be returned directly to the manufactuer according to the manufacturer's warranty and cannot be returned to CPE.

Any product which includes the phrase 'No Returns' in the product description is not eligible to be returned and may only be exchanged if defective upon arrival.

A Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number must ALWAYS accompany all returns. To obtain your RMA number, please call our customer service team at (800) 679-7007. Products returned without obtaining an RMA number may be REFUSED or subject to a 15% restocking fee at the discretion of CPE.

When returning items to CPE with a valid RMA number, you must ship via a traceable insurable carrier. We recommend using UPS or the U.S. Postal Service with tracking number/delivery confirmation and insurance on the shipment. Please use the original shipping box. All original product parts are required for return, including product packaging.

Due to manufacturer restrictions, we cannot accept returns of the following items:

• Any Autodesk, Avid, and Quark products that have been opened cannot be returned.
• Any item that has been discontinued by the manufacturer.
• Recordable CDs/DVDs, Ink Cartridges, Paper, or Toner for Fax Machines.
• Any item returned more than 20 days after delivery.
• Any item that is not in its original condition.
• Any item returned without a RMA number.
• Any item returned to locations other than the return shipping address specified by CPE upon issuance of the RMA number.

CPE is authorized by the manufacturers to sell products at educational discounts and must abide by the return policies set forth by the manufacturers.

If you have any questions concerning our Return Policy, please call our customer service team at 800-679-7007 or send and email to support@educational-software.com.