FormIt 2022.1 – New features

By Garry Stockton

Whether you are new to FormIt, or an existing user, the new release FormIt 2022.1 offers major performance improvements, new workflows across the board and tons of new features and improvements requested by you. To take advantage of these improvements, you'll need both FormIt and Revit 2022.1.

Below you’ll find the first two, Levels and Location Data Terrain:

Levels

In this updated release, Autodesk has added a couple of enhancements to the FormIt + Revit connection, specifically around levels. (Please note: FormIt for Windows only).

Sending Levels from Revit to FormIt

When launching FormIt from the 3D Sketch button, you can now include Revit levels in the data sent to FormIt. (FormIt for Windows only)

You can explicitly select individual levels, or if you choose to launch FormIt with all visible Revit objects, any visible Revit levels will be sent to FormIt.

In FormIt, you can apply the levels to objects as you would normally, so you can snap and inference to the level lines as you work.

New Location Data: Terrain

As requested the ability to import terrain has been added, so you can reference the three-dimensional context data you need to design a building on a topologically-active site.

When using the Set Location dialog to import satellite imagery, you'll also get terrain model. Terrain imports as a Mesh but can be converted to a solid for cut operations as you modify your site.