Whilst Revit 6 did have massing, it was not the building maker tools they appeared with Revit 7 and the concept environment we now have was just a twinkle in somebodies eye. The reality was a total long shot back then. One of the things we talked about was a Revit Lite, a focused version of the product for people to play, develop and learn with.
I remember clearly speaking with my line manager, Tim Bates, about how Autodesk might consider pushing Revit out to a wider audience. To be honest at the time ADT had a far stronger user base. Architects and designers where just not ready for BIM. Promoting Revit was a hard graft whilst it demonstrated really well and people loved what they saw, they just couldn’t see how it would fit within their existing processes. Revit 6 was the current version, this was well before anyone at Autodesk had thought about adding the year + 1 to the product. They had employed me as an Applications Engineer to promote, train and help sell Autodesk Revit. I was working for Excitech an Autodesk Reseller here in the UK. Revit LT? Now let me step back 6 years to 2004. This is the same cloud based functionality which was recently added to Revit 2011 as part of the Q3 subscription advantage pack. Your designs can be analysed using the built-in energy modeling and analysis features. Vasari is able to produce conceptual models using both geometric and parametric modeling functionality. So what is Project Vasari? Whilst it would probably be wrong to call it a Lite version of Revit, nevertheless, Project Vasari is an easy to use standalone application built on the same technology as the Autodesk Revit platform.
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To top that, as it’s a preview technology so it will be free to use at your own risk. I am struggling to contain my excitement, but there is a storm a coming!!! Watch out for Project Vasari as its likely to appear on Autodesk labs in the very near future.