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Press Release from Autodesk regarding the Revit 2009 Suite of applications:

Autodesk Launches New Solutions for Building Information Modeling

Some potentially extremely exciting features include:

• Mental Ray Rendering
• Swept Blends (two profiles placed along a 2D path)
• Enhanced slab editing
• Baseline and Ordinate (Running) dimensions (woohoo!)
• Dimension text overrides
• Enhanced Revision Schedules
• Enhancements to Linked files such as: The ability of a linked file to define room boundaries, and phase mapping
• Multi Parameter Labels
• Selection Counts
• Depth Clipping
• Project Mirror and Rotate

The Revit 2009 New Features post over at BIMboom shows these features and more in a series of slides.

Other Links:
- RobiNZ CAD Blog: Time flies, it’s Autodesk 2009!
- ImaginIT: Revit Architecture 2009 New Features Announcement
- RevitUp: What's New in Revit Architecure 2009
- RevitUp: More Revit 2009 News (includes a video of a cool new visualisation technology called "Newport")
- Green Revit: Revit 2009 New Feature - VSTA ("light" programming envrionment within Revit)

Other Announcements:
- Autodesk Introduces Productivity Boosts to AutoCAD Software
- Autodesk Launches 3ds Max 2009 Entertainment Software and Introduces 3ds Max Design 2009 for Design Professionals
- Autodesk Impression free for Subscription customers?