What’s New in Inventor 2027: A Guide to the Latest Features
Consultant Jason Kelly explores the new 2027 features in Autodesk Inventor Professional. Including updates to the content center and Autodesk Assistant
What’s New in Revit Structure 2027: A Guide to the Latest Features
Autodesk's 2027 release continues its focus on deepening Revit's structural capabilities, with meaningful updates across reinforced concrete, analytical modelling, and steel detailing. Here's a technical breakdown of what's changed and what it means for your workflows and productivity.
Watch this video to see our consultant Lawrence Hooker walk through the updates to the structural features within Revit 2027.
This article covers:
- Autodesk Assistant
- Model Queries
- View and Sheet Generation
- Workflow Guidance
- Reinforced Concrete
- Automatic Section Property Calculation
- Rebar Mass
- Rebar Numbering Overhaul
- Analytical Modelling
- Splitting Analytical Panels
- Automatic material thickness
- Analytical Automation and Pinning
- Steel Modelling
- Summary
- See Revit 2027's New Structural Features In Action
- Elevating Your Revit skills
- How to Stay up to Date With the Latest Autodesk Software Releases
Autodesk Assistant
The headline addition within Revit 2027 is the Autodesk Assistant; a natural language interface embedded directly in Revit. Structurally, it covers three areas:
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Model queries - interrogate the model without manually navigating the project browser or running schedules
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View and sheet generation - create documentation through conversational commands
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Workflow guidance - contextual suggestions for completing tasks
This sits alongside early MCP (Model Context Protocol) server functionality, which hints at more extensible AI integration in future releases.
Reinforced Concrete
The Revit Structure 2027 release provides some great updates in concrete modelling and reinforcement. All the concrete modelling features are now consolidated in the new dedicated Concrete tab.
Concrete columns and beams can now have their structural properties — moment of inertia, section modulus, and so on — automatically calculated from the member's cross-sectional shape and size. Properties can still be manually overridden by unchecking the auto-calculation option.
The reinforcement mass is now calculated for all rebar, enabling the production of all required bending schedules to display the weight of steel. This will also help with carbon calculations and construction site safety.
The morphed free form tool makes the modelling of transverse rebar much simpler allowing the user to simply select the reinforcement parallel to the view. The transverse rebar is then populated either across a single segment or the entire length of the bar.
The morphed free form and path free form toolsets provide a robust set of tools to reinforce civil structures such as bridges, tunnels and complex concrete shapes.
When working with rebar sets, a new layout rule is available greatly improving the way we can reinforce beams and columns. The new layout rules allow for differing ranges within the same rebar set.
The Layout Formulae can take the following formats:
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Format |
Example |
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Number of spaces x Spacing |
3x100; ?x200; 5x100 |
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Length @ Spacing |
1400@100;900@300 |
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Percentage of set Length |
33%@100;?@200;33%@100 |
Of course, the formulae enables complete parametric updates when concrete members are edited. New built-in parameters also control how a formula driven rebar set is tagged and detailed.
The traditional reinforcement numbering methodology has been discontinued. The Rebar Number built-in parameter is now editable and driven by a centralised Numbering tool in the core Revit software, bringing rebar numbering in line with how other elements are managed across the platform.
Analytical Modelling
Splitting Analytical Panels
Analytical panels can now be split into sub-panels by selecting grids, levels, sketch lines, or the edge of an adjacent analytical member. This is particularly useful when a structural slab or wall spans multiple bays but requires discrete panels for load application or engineering analysis.
Automatic Material Thickness
When associating an analytical panel with a physical floor or wall, Revit now automatically assigns the structural material thickness, excluding non-structural layers such as blinding. This reduces manual data entry and improves accuracy when transferring models to analysis software.
Wind loads can now be modelled directly in Revit and applied using the new cladding role. For complex roof and façade arrangements you can use Dynamo to automate the modelling of the panels. Loads can now also be applied across multiple panels.
Analytical Automation and Pinning
The analytical model now supports automatic synchronisation with the physical model helping to keep both synchronised. Elements can be pinned to freeze their analytical position if manual control is needed, for example where beams or columns should not follow panel movement.
Analytical nodes can also be un-hosted from their connected elements, addressing cases where connectivity should not drive geometry.
Steel Modelling
The 2027 release lays groundwork rather than delivering finished steel detailing functionality. Standard editing commands - cut, notch, and structural openings - can now be applied to fabrication elements (steelwork modified via the Steel tab). Previously, these operations were restricted to native Revit elements.
This is explicitly foundational work: the unified editing environment this creates is intended to support full steel modelling and detailing workflows in future releases.
SEE REVIT'S 2027'S STRUCTURAL FEATURES IN ACTION
All mentioned features are demonstrated in detail in the video featured above.
Summary
Structurally, the 2027 release prioritises two things:
- Making Revit a capable reinforced concrete detailing environment for complex civil structures
- Continuing the slow build toward a fully integrated structural analysis platform.
The rebar formula toolset and morphed free form improvements are immediately useful for bridge and tunnel reinforcement. The analytical automation and wind load features move Revit closer to serving as a single model environment across design and analysis. Steel detailing remains a work in progress, but the editing improvements suggest the platform is being prepared for a more significant update.
The Autodesk Assistant is worth monitoring - particularly the MCP server functionality - as the interface between natural language and model data matures and offers additional functionality!
Elevate Your Revit Skills
To support these new Revit 2027 capabilities, now is a great time to take advantage of our training opportunities. Whether you’re looking to refine your core Revit skills or deepen your capabilities, we’re offering an exclusive 25% discount on any Revit training course booked before 1st June.
When booking a training course on our website, please use the discount code: AUTODESK27
This is also an ideal opportunity to explore how complementary tools and structured workflows can enhance your Revit environment, helping to improve reinforced concrete, analytical modelling, and steel detailing workflows.
If you have any questions or would like help choosing the right training option, please contact us.
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