1. What is the role of visualization in Autodesk Revit software?

Autodesk Revit Architecture is a robust architectural design and documentation software application

created by Autodesk for architects and building professionals. The tools and features that make up

Revit Architecture are specifically designed to support building information modeling (BIM) workflows.

By utilizing BIM as opposed to computer-aided drafting (CAD), Revit Architecture is able to leverage

dynamic information in intelligent models — allowing complex building structures to be accurately

designed and documented in a short amount of time. Each intelligent model created with Revit

Architecture represents an entire project and is stored in a single database file. This allows changes

made in one part of the model to be automatically propagated to other parts of the model, thus

enhancing the workflow for Revit Architecture users.

Data visualization software allows the user to select the best way of presenting the data, but,

increasingly, software automates this step. Some tools automatically interpret the shape of the data

and detect correlations between certain variables and then place these discoveries into the chart type

that the software determines is optimal.

2. Explain what Analytic Visualization is.

The logical step after aggregating and cleansing data is subjecting the data to analysis or performing
calculations on the data. As today’s business environment has grown complex, data analysis also
involves complex calculations. The need for speed introduced multi-stage formulas that perform a
number of calculations simultaneously. Visualization tools focus on reporting data rather than analyzing
it, and as such, most tools are limited, with restrictions in the possible aggregations per formula.

3. How Analytic Visualization differ from Photorealistic Visualization?

Our focus is to get you somewhere in the middle. You need to understand how Revit works, but you
also need to understand that although something is technically feasible, it may not be practical from
a workflow standpoint. Our goal is to help you focus on communication, not just visualization for its
own sake. So if you're happy with visualizing your project at its current level of development (not too
far ahead and not overly detailed), you're going to have a lot of success rendering with Revit
software.

We refer to basic modes of visualization as analytic as compared to the more advanced modes we
will refer to as photorealistic. Although photorealistic visualization is self-explanatory, analytic
visualization is the most common form of communicating with 3D views in Revit. You will not achieve
the true realism of a photorealistic rendering, but analytic views are active views of the model within
which you can create or analyze the design. You can even create a camera view with analytic
graphic settings to use as a cover sheet for your document set-and you'll never need to remember to
regenerate a rendering to update the cover image!