Revit - Version history

Version 3.0.13 - 29th April 2014

Changes

• added support for Revit 2015
• workaround for Revit bug which produced misplaced faces in family instances which contained imported symbols
• implemented Pack'n'Go

Fixes

• Maxwell button became unusable after opening the family editor
• the family editor exporter wasn't using the updated exporter code in Revit 2014
• the export button didn't work if an image output path wasn't set in Revit 2014
• the installer didn't find the Revit install path if a localized or bundled version of Revit was used
• the addin didn't load in some cases
• exported camera framing was different from the Revit viewport
• crash when setting the current month to January
• crash in scenes that contained stills
• railings and balusters didn't get exported correctly
• the topology mesh material didn't get exported in Revit 2014
• wrong baluster positioning in some cases

Version 2.7.22 - July 16th, 2013

Fixes

• crashes when the shared parameters file did not exist or could not be created

Version 2.7.20 - July 08th, 2013

Fixes

• hang when the project contained multiple objects that have only numeric characters in their name
• crash when translating materials with procedural textures assigned

Version 2.7.19 - June 25th, 2013

Changes

• added support for Revit 2014
• textures assigned to native Revit materials are recognized in 2014, including the placement options such as tiling, rotation etc.
• added object render flags (hide to camera, hide to GI etc.)
• when the currently selected view is unavailable, the plug-in renders the first camera view it finds
• added support for exporting and overriding materials found in linked files

Fixes

• the sun direction didn't match between Maxwell and mental ray in some cases
• possible corruption of the scene information when changing Maxwell render settings
• crash when trying to render several different documents successively
• crash when editing Maxwell settings or objects after the document from which they originated was closed
• the export could fail if certain paths had Unicode characters in them
• crash when reading back emitter temperature from multilight when the target light didn't have a temperature parameter

Version 2.7.16 - April 25th, 2013

Changes

• added an about dialog to make it easier to determine the version of the plug-in
• only the width or height of the output image can be specified directly; the other one is computed automatically to match the aspect of the view
• point light sources are no longer hidden from camera
• faster export in scenes with many lights

Fixes

• wrong position for the emitter meshes generated by the plug-in
• incorrect export of split faces
• scenes with grass created by an older version of the plug-in would crash in newer versions
• an MXI file was still written even if the MXI output checkbox was turned off
• incorrect export for some objects with multiple materials
• emitter material generated for exported lights was black when encased in glass
• incorrect placement for some light sources
• the plastic, wood and wallpaint materials were exported incorrectly
• wrong camera framing for rendered views