What’s new in Revit 2026?

At the beginning of April 2025, Autodesk Revit 2026 was released.

In this post, Steven Smith provides an insight into the key new features, innovations and enhancements this latest incarnation of Revit brings, summarising the major improvements and the benefits it will bring to your business’s day-to-day use of Revit.

Performance and stability improvements

A range of new features are available in Revit 2026 that ensure shorter wait times, improved productivity, fewer crashes on large projects and lower hardware upgrade pressure.

These features include: faster model open/save, improved graphics performance, reduced memory use for large models, and multithreaded improvements for several common operations (e.g., view regeneration, element selection).

Enhanced collaboration and cloud integration

Revit 2026 brings more reliable multi-user workflows, clearer audit trails, fewer coordination errors and better remote work support.

There’s a deeper integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM Collaborate Pro bringing improved cloud worksharing, more reliable syncing and clearer conflict resolution notifications.

There’s also expanded support for shared parameters across cloud worksets.

Generative design and automation enhancements

New generative design studies templates and improved constraint handling bring faster option studies, better early-stage design decision-making and reduced time for layout iteration.

There’s also a simplified UI for setting objectives and constraints.

Documentation and annotation improvements

A range of documentation and annotation improvements ensure faster drawing production, fewer manual corrections and improved deliverable quality.

The improvements include more intelligent chain selection in dimensioning tools, new annotation families, automatic tag placement options and enhanced text formatting controls.

MEP and Structural workflow updates

For MEP engineers, Revit 2026 offers improved routing tools, updated fabrication part support and better clash avoidance suggestions. The results are reduced coordination rework, faster MEP routing and fabrication-ready models.

For structural engineers, Revit 2026 brings enhanced analytical model workflows and improved steel connections library.

Reality capture and point cloud enhancements

Improvements to point cloud import, registration tools and clipping/visualisation controls for large scans ensure quicker existing-conditions modeling, more accurate as-built coordination and reduced time converting scans to models.

API, Dynamo and automation extensibility

Expanded Revit API endpoints, new Dynamo nodes and improved headless automation support for batch tasks and cloud run bring about more opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, integrate with in-house tools and scale production efficiency.

Conclusion

In summary, Revit 2026 focuses on performance, collaboration, automation and improved documentation workflows. The enhancements introduced will reduce project delivery time and improve multidisciplinary collaboration across AEC teams.

Have you used Revit 2026 in earnest yet? If so, I’d like to hear your views. Are you enjoying using this latest version? Were there any features you were banking not included in this release?

Armada offers Revit training to users at all levels, from all key target industries: architecture, structural engineering and MEP.

For information about our introductory-level courses, see Revit Essentials and Revit MEP Essentials.

For our advanced -level courses, see Advanced Revit for Architecture, Advanced Revit for Structures, Advanced Revit for MEP and Revit Families and Content Creation.