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Revit's history begins with a CAD software company named Parametric Technology Corporation. PTC released the first version of their CAD/CAM flagship software, Pro/Engineer, in 1989 which allowed changes made in one stage of the process to be automatically reflected in all other phases.. Pro-E, as it was commonly called, designed CAD porjects in 3D for the first time. Though the early version of Pro/E was crude, its concept was revolutionary. In 1997, Charles River Software was founded by, Irwin Jungreis and Leonid Raiz, the core software development team for Pro/E. The first round of venture capital

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was in 1998 and the first office was located in Wellesley, MA (upstairs from Domino's Pizza!). They started the company to solve what they thought was an absence of a parametric modelling platform for architecture. The management team and boards of directors were CAD industry veterans with years of excperience with innovative software technology.Their flagship product, Revit, incorporated the same 3D concepts as Pro/E but focused around the model concept. In 2000 the company was renamed Revit Technology Corporation and on April 5, 2000 in Cambridge, MA the first version of Revit (1.0) was released. First offered as a software lease (you could not buy it), Revit was the first parametric building modeler specifically designed for the AEC industry. It's technology offered the model concept with an easy-to-use platofrm designed to enable architects, engineers and contractors life-cycle planning for building projects.Revit's intelligent design environment encouraged design revisions because there was real-time synchronization of the documentation. On February 21, 2002, Autodesk (the maker of AutoCad) announced plans to acquire Revit Technology Corporation. With the addition of Revit to Autodesk, it brought about a much needed improvement to the AutoCad suite of products. AutoCad's drawing environment has gradually incorporated some of Revit's modeling concepts and improved the notion of drawing a building, not just lines on paper.

For Revit though, the acquisition meant more reasearch, development and improvement of the software. Autodesk has released several versions of Revit since 2004 and since they no longer used the lease model, it meant that Revit could be offered for a more affordable price. Since the release of Revit Architecture 2009, it has become the BIM standard in the AEC industry. Revit is no longer the Architectural and MEP design Searching for autodesk revit architectu curiosity it once was as it is regularly used to design and model new commercial 1. Looking for Autodesk projects and has gradually becoming the standard for CAD design. From my own professional standpoint, we are currently using both AutoCad and Revit in our office. AutoCad is used for the smaller tenant improvement projects but Revit is the standard for our larger commercial projects. Its features offer a more thorough design which can easily be exported to drawing sheets.
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