With Revit 2027, Autodesk is introducing a major step forward in connected design workflows: Revit is now the first Forma Connected Client, available in Tech Preview. This milestone brings the power of the Forma industry cloud directly into Revit, helping teams make better decisions earlier, reduce rework, and stay aligned across the entire project lifecycle.

For years, BIM has transformed how buildings are designed and documented. But many project teams still struggle with disconnected tools, fragmented data, and manual workflows between project phases.

Forma Connected Clients are designed to help solve this.

Rather than replacing the tools you rely on, we are extending them—bringing deep connections between desktop applications, like Revit, to the Forma industry cloud, bridging desktop and cloud to redefine how collaboration happens throughout the project lifecycle.

With Revit 2027, this vision becomes real.

The result is a more unified experience—one where data flows more freely, insights and analysis are available when you need them, and decisions can be made with greater confidence from the very start.

Designing in Context, Not in Isolation

Every project begins with questions: What does the site look like? How will the building interact with its surroundings? What constraints will shape the design?

Traditionally, answering these questions has required gathering data from multiple sources, validating it, and manually bringing it into your model. It’s a process that takes time—and often introduces uncertainty.

With Forma Contextual Data in Revit 2027, that process becomes dramatically simpler.

With direct access to the Forma Data Marketplace, you can bring real-world context—like terrain and surrounding buildings—into your project in just a few clicks. Instead of designing based on assumptions, you’re working with more accurate, location-based data from the beginning.

It’s a small shift in workflow, but a big shift in mindset: design decisions are now grounded in reality from day one.

Connecting Data Across Tools and Teams

One of the biggest challenges in complex projects isn’t creating models—it’s keeping them aligned, up-to-date and in sync. Projects span multiple disciplines, multiple tools, and multiple phases. Too often, that means exporting files, re-importing data, and constantly asking: Is this the latest version?

Forma introduces a different approach, available across Site Design, Building Design and Revit 2027.

By connecting your model to a Forma Scenario—a shared design container in your Forma Project—you can connect models, data, and context across applications without moving files around. Whether a model originates in Revit or a Forma design application, it becomes part of a connected system where everything stays more in sync and up to date.

But, it’s not just about keeping data up to date, it’s also about keeping data aligned. Forma Geolocation helps ensure that every model in the scenario is accurately located, so you no longer need to manually align models.

This removes friction from collaboration, allowing teams to focus less on managing data—and more on designing.

Insight at Any Moment During Design

Good design decisions depend on good information. But in many workflows, analysis comes later—after key decisions have already been made.

With Revit 2027, analysis becomes part of the design process itself, all powered through Forma Analyses.

Forma-powered wind analysis is now available directly within Revit, giving you immediate feedback on how wind conditions will impact pedestrian comfort and contribute to the built-world around the project site. You can explore quick estimates through machine learning Wind Estimate analysis or run detailed simulations using Wind Simulation analysis. Use Wind Estimate while you’re designing to see the impact with each design move, or run a Wind Simulation in the cloud, while you continue designing.

Analysis doesn’t slow down the design process, it helps reinforce design decisions.

You can also transition to Forma Site Design with a single click, giving access to all your models together to continuing running additional analyses such as Daylight Potential analysis, Sun Hours analysis, or Microclimate analysis so you have a rich understanding of the full environmental impact of your project.

Instead of stopping to validate your design, you can evaluate it continuously—refining and improving as you go.

Less Rework, More Confidence

Behind all of these capabilities is a simple goal: reduce friction.

By bringing a deep connection between Revit and the Forma industry cloud, data no longer needs to be manually exchanged between tools. Contextual data, analysis results, and design models are all part of a shared ecosystem—accessible when and where you need them.

This means fewer errors, fewer duplicated efforts, and fewer moments spent reconciling differences between files.

It also means something more important: confidence. Confidence that your design is based on more updated data, that your analysis reflects real conditions, and that your team is working from the same foundation.

Available Now in Tech Preview

These new capabilities are available in Revit 2027 as a Tech Preview, giving you the opportunity to explore what’s possible and help shape what comes next. To join the Tech Preview, you can enable your Forma Project in Forma Data Management, so your entire project team can explore together. To learn more about joining the Revit 2027 – Forma Connected Client Tech Preview visit the Revit 2027 Documentation.

Revit is the first step. Over time, more Autodesk desktop applications will become Forma Connected Clients, expanding this connected ecosystem and unlocking even more powerful workflows across the industry.

But the impact starts now.

With Revit 2027 as a Forma Connected Client, design becomes more connected, more informed, and more aligned—from the earliest concept to the final details.

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Autodesk Forma Carbon Insights (formerly Autodesk Insight) delivers total carbon analysis across Forma Building Design and Revit, helping teams understand carbon impacts in early-phase design workflows and carry those insights into detailed design. This makes it easier for teams of all sizes to participate in sustainability efforts and make informed decisions around reducing a building’s overall carbon footprint. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.

Easily get started in Forma Building Design

Forma Building Design is a new offering that makes early design exploration faster and lower-effort, helping architects quickly generate options, test performance, and define a clear direction before moving into Revit. Forma Carbon Insights is accessible from both Forma Building Design and Revit, enabling teams to act on the same carbon data, including embodied and operational carbon, from the start and throughout the project.*

In Forma Building Design, total carbon analysis powered by Forma Carbon Insights enables:

• Fast, accessible results within the Forma Building Design environment, allowing you to experiment with early building models and start to estimate baseline carbon implications

• Full carbon assessment from the start of the project, including both embodied carbon and operational carbon for energy assessment

• In-depth analysis in the Forma Carbon Insights dashboard, including customization, advanced configuration, and collaborative insights

• An established baseline which can be carried forward in detailed design workflows, enabling consistent data and analysis for ongoing assessment

While understanding how to reduce carbon impacts is key to designing sustainable buildings, the ability to run these assessments has historically been isolated to specialist roles or workflows. With easy-to-use solutions like total carbon analysis powered by Forma Carbon Insights, firms can bring sustainability knowledge in-house and scale the capability to track carbon across teams.

Learn how to get started analyzing total carbon in Forma Building Design here.

*Forma Carbon Insights is currently only available for FDM Hubs located in the US.

Align on carbon insights across teams

With Forma Carbon Insights, you can now share dashboards across multi-disciplinary teams to visualize, track, and reduce carbon impacts together, transforming carbon analysis from a specialist task into a connected project or firm-wide capability.

Whether analysis begins in Revit or Forma Building Design, producing consistent assessments and collaborative insights from your cloud-hosted models allows for:

• Project members, admins, and clients to view, edit, and visualize opportunities for carbon reduction in browser

• Teams to align around common metrics, factors, and sustainability goals

• Various stakeholders to work from the same connected data, accelerating alignment, reducing information loss, and scaling carbon expertise

• Assessments that are consistent across energy analysis and common carbon datasets

Access deeper carbon intelligence directly from Revit

Understanding how to best reduce carbon and optimize energy performance on projects is complex. As the next generation of Autodesk Insight, Forma Carbon Insights users can still start their models in Revit without needing to rework or model in a separate tool.

Generate an Energy Analytical Model (EAM) from your Revit model to run a cleaner and more detailed embodied, operational, and total carbon analysis powered by real BIM data. Open your model in Forma Carbon Insights to:

• Define and track carbon metrics and benchmarks that reflect client requirements, internal sustainability standards, or specific needs on the project

• Explore rigorous material assessments and energy simulation to iterate on carbon reduction strategies

• Balance trade-offs between the impact of changes to building form, orientation, envelope, materials, internal loads, HVAC systems, renewable offsets to carbon impacts and energy costs

• Visualize options and custom dashboards to support sustainable design conversations with clients

Building on Insight’s capabilities, Forma Carbon Insights now incorporates a greater scope and level of detail for embodied carbon, including structural models.** Forma Carbon Insights provides what you need to adapt to the realities of your project and region, featuring multiple material carbon datasets (for carbon emissions factors) out of the box and connection to third-party data sources.

Learn how to get started with Forma Carbon Insights in Revit 2027 here.

**Expanded structural embodied carbon analysis is currently in Tech Preview. Understand how to access it here.

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Forma Carbon Insights (formerly Autodesk Insight) brings carbon assessment into everyday design, making sustainability analysis accessible for new users and flexible for advanced teams so you can make lower-carbon decisions earlier and with greater collaboration.

To learn more, visit the Forma Carbon Insights product page. Forma Carbon Insights is included with Revit, Forma Building Design, and AEC Collection subscriptions. Learn how to get started in Forma Building Design here and in Revit here.

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Design teams aren’t short on tools. They’re short on time.

Between tighter deadlines, growing model complexity, and constant coordination across disciplines, the real challenge isn’t just designing, it’s keeping everything aligned without slowing down.

Autodesk Revit 2027 responds to that reality. This release brings Autodesk AI into the modeling environment, connects workflows across the cloud, and supports the kinds of tasks that quietly eat up hours each week. The result is a more fluid way of working, one where your tools support progress instead of slowing it down.

And there’s even more in store with Revit 2027, from new integrated workflows with our Forma Industry Cloud to elevated precision modeling, Issues integration, modernized UI, introduction of Forma Carbon Insights, and many other enhancements. Read on to see how Revit 2027 can deliver new impact on your workflow and designs.

AI inside the model, not outside it

One of the biggest shifts in Revit 2027 is the introduction of Autodesk Assistant.

Instead of digging through menus or piecing together workflows manually, you can now interact with your model using natural language. You can ask questions, generate documentation steps, and trigger basic modeling actions—all from within the same place you work.

Assistant can help you interrogate and analyze model data, create and organize views and schedules, edit parameters in context, manage rooms, and provide in-product guidance to complete tasks and resolve issues efficiently.

Because Assistant understands your model context, the answers are relevant to what you’re actually doing. And as you save prompts, repeatable work can become faster and more consistent over time.

This isn’t just help content. It’s assistance that can actually help you move work forward.

From disconnected tools to a connected ecosystem

Revit 2027 expands beyond a single application into a connected environment.

With Forma Data Management Essentials, Forma Site Design, Forma Building Design, and Forma Board now included in Revit subscriptions, teams can move from early site studies to detailed design without stitching together separate tools. What used to require setup and coordination across platforms is now available from day one.

As announced at AU 2025, Revit is our first Forma Connected Client (tech preview) allowing you to access model data from shared, geolocated scenarios. That means data, context, and analysis flow from Forma Site Design without the friction. You can reference shared data quicker, access environmental datasets, and run environmental analyses like wind studies—without leaving your workflow. Join the tech preview to explore these capabilities and help shape what comes next.

Coordination that happens in real time

Coordination is no longer something that waits until the end.

Issues for Revit are no longer an optional extension, but it is integrated with our core product. Teams can create, view, and resolve issues directly inside Revit, fully synchronized with Forma Data Management.

Over time, coordination can become more continuous instead of reactive, helping reduce surprises and keep projects moving.

Automation where it actually matters

Revit 2027 focuses on the repetitive tasks that slow teams down.

Rule-based numbering replaces manual renumbering cycles with support that can adapt as your model changes.

Alongside this, improvements to tagging, annotation controls, and interface behavior reduce small but constant interruptions across production work.

Individually, these are incremental. Together, they give time back to your team.

A faster, more stable foundation

Under the hood, Revit 2027 delivers meaningful performance gains.

Dynamo runs faster and more reliably, supported by updates to .NET 10 and improved computational handling. At the same time, Accelerated Graphics is now production-ready, making large models smoother to navigate and more responsive during everyday tasks.

The experience feels faster—not just in benchmarks, but in how quickly you can move through your work.

What the new improvements in Revit 2027 mean for your role

Architecture: Design with clarity, connection, and carbon insight

Architects must balance design quality with measurable outcomes—especially around sustainability.

Revit 2027 brings carbon analysis directly into the design workflow through Autodesk Forma Carbon Insights (formerly Autodesk Insight). Instead of treating sustainability as a downstream check, you can evaluate embodied and operational carbon within your BIM environment, with clearer visibility into the impact of your decisions. Revit materials now report Carbon parameter making each choice more traceable and measurable.

At the same time, improvements to walls, stairs, and design options make modeling more predictable. Walls can now host on other walls; stair/tread numbering are now controlled via type properties; and Design Options views behave more consistently. You can define intent more clearly upfront and avoid downstream adjustments that slow production.

The result is a workflow where design, performance, and documentation can stay aligned from the start.

Structural: Carry design intent through analysis and detailing

Structural workflows often break down when models, analysis, and detailing fall out of sync. Revit 2027 helps to close those gaps.

Analytical modeling introduces structurally aware automation, where the analytical model updates directly from physical changes while preserving connectivity, loads, and boundary conditions. This reduces rework and improves confidence in analysis results.

Rebar detailing gains more control over complex geometry. Reinforcement adapts to host changes, with automated updates to bar distribution, splicing, and spacing through rule-based logic, improving precision and production readiness.

Steel elements behave more predictably across levels of detail, maintaining clean documentation and accurate connections as designs evolve.

Together, these updates create a more continuous structural workflow from analysis through detailing and fabrication, preserving intent and tightening coordination.

MEP: Build systems that perform as designed

For MEP teams, reliability depends on how well analysis, system logic, and detailing stay aligned.

Revit 2027 improves the foundation of energy modeling by generating cleaner analytical geometry and reducing the need for manual cleanup. A more guided setup process helps ensure models are configured correctly from the start, leading to more dependable results.

HVAC workflows now operate on system-level logic, connecting zoning, load calculations, and equipment sizing in a more consistent way. This can help reduce interpretation gaps between analysis and design decisions.

Extending these capabilities further, Trane® will soon introduce the next‑generation TRACE® with Revit® integration, a proprietary calculation engine, and a cloud‑based interface for streamlined load design, energy modeling, and economic analysis. Find more information at trane.com/trace.

On the production side, fabrication tools are more data-rich and precise, enabling earlier detailing with schedulable parameters and better alignment between design and shop workflows. The outcome is a cohesive MEP workflow where performance, sizing, and constructability can stay aligned, reducing rework and improving production confidence.

A more connected future for collaboration

Across all disciplines, Revit 2027 helps strengthen how teams coordinate through connected data and shared environments.

Incremental data synchronization keeps models up to date without unnecessary overhead. Model Analytics provides visibility into model health, performance, and potential risks.

 In addition, shared environments like Forma Board enable teams to review, collaborate, and communicate through a visual collaborative workspace.

Improvements to interoperability, including IFC mapping, data exchange, and improved reality capture workflows further reduce friction when working across platforms and partners.

Coordination becomes less about managing files—and more about working from a shared source of truth.

Get started with Revit 2027 today

Revit 2027 helps teams spend less time fixing, syncing, and coordinating and more time designing, analyzing, and delivering. AI assists inside the model. Data flows more easily across tools. More automation helps prevent repetitive work. Coordination can happen continuously.

To access the latest Revit features, launch the Autodesk Access application on your desktop or visit the Autodesk Account center to install Revit 2027.0.1, which includes several important fixes. If you’re not currently subscribed, you can also explore Revit 2027 with a free trial.

For more in-depth technical information, visit the Revit Help Center and be sure to register for the “What’s New in Revit 2027” webinar on Tuesday, April 14, where our product experts will take a deep dive into the latest updates and answer your questions.

See What’s New in Revit 2027 Live Webinar

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If you’ve ever worked inside an AEC project, you know how quickly things can get complicated. Models grow. Teams expand. Deadlines tighten. And small issues can quietly snowball into big problems before anyone has time to react. While Revit Cloud Worksharing gives teams incredible flexibility, it also introduces something most firms struggle to stay ahead of model health.

Until now, understanding a model’s true health often meant piecing together clues: digging through Revit journals, asking around about sync issues, manually checking model size, or making educated guesses when things started to slow down. The data existed, but it was spread across logs, spreadsheets, and tribal knowledge, making it difficult to turn into something meaningful or actionable.

That’s where Autodesk Model Analytics Essentials comes in. Built directly into Autodesk Forma Insight, it gives project teams near real-time visibility into how their Revit cloud models are performing.

Why Model Health Matters More Than Ever

Model health isn’t just a “BIM manager’s problem.” It affects everyone:

• Designers feel the pain when sync times climb.
• Project managers struggle when unpredictable model behavior delays downstream work.
• And when a model slows down or crashes, the ripple effects are felt across the entire project team.

The reality is: Poor model health is one of the biggest hidden risks on AEC projects.

When file sizes surge, versions drift, or uncontrolled changes stack up, performance suffers. And once models get bogged down, recovering stability can take hours—time no project can afford.

Autodesk Model Analytics Essentials was created to change that dynamic, helping teams move from reacting to issues to proactively identifying and reducing them.

What Autodesk Model Analytics Essentials Does — In Plain Language

At its core, Model Analytics Essentials tracks the key signals that shape day-to-day model performance and presents them in clear dashboards directly inside Insight. There’s no third-party setup, no separate systems to manage, and no need to open Revit just to understand what’s happening.

Here’s what Model Analytics Essentials helps teams understand:

1.) Sync Behavior

Sync-to-central times tells a powerful story about how a model is behaving day to day. Long or inconsistent sync times often signal network strain or an overloaded model, early warning signs that performance issues may be forming.

2.) File Size Growth

As models become more complex, performance dips. Model Analytics Essentials visualizes this growth over time so teams can step in early by using health indicators like Imported or linked files and poor model practice identifiers.

3.) Version Alignment

When teams drift onto different Revit versions, corruption and instability follows. Model Analytics Essentials highlights misalignment before it disrupts work with the Revit minor version check for all users on each Revit model.

4.) Change Patterns Between Syncs

Every sync leaves a snapshot. Model Analytics Essentials stitches these snapshots together, making it easier to see what changed between syncs, when those changes occurred, and which user was involved.  This information appears in the compare dashboard, where each dot on the scatter plot can be selected to view the details of an individual user’s sync.

5.) Content and Element Trends

Things like CAD imports, in-place families, outdated content, or unapproved elements often hide in plain sight. Model Analytics Essentials surfaces them before they cause issues. These signals are automatically collected and visualized, giving teams a real window into the health and behavior of their models.

This isn’t just “more data.” It’s structured, meaningful, actionable information that reveals the heartbeat of your models and makes it easier to spot issues before they disrupt work.

A Tool for Everyone on the Project

Autodesk Model Analytics Essentials was built for the entire project ecosystem.

For Designers

It takes the guesswork out of slowdowns. Using simple color-coded health scores, Model Analytics Essentials helps designers quickly see trends in model health and understand whether an indicator represents an anomaly or a downward trend. This provides visibility into where issues are forming, without designers needing to dig through technical logs.

For BIM Managers

It replaces opening Revit for slow manual model checks, spreadsheets, and screenshots, with dashboards that update automatically every time someone syncs.

For Project Admins and Coordinators

It brings consistency across teams and locations. You can finally see how models are behaving, where risks are forming, and where models need attention.

For Project Managers

Model health becomes a predictable, monitorable part of project delivery, not a wildcard.

A Connected Foundation for the Future

Autodesk Model Analytics Essentials is also built on top of the growing AEC data model, meaning the information it processes is part of a broader ecosystem of model intelligence. Over time, this foundation could unlock new ways of analyzing model behavior, connecting insights across projects, and supporting future automation and AI-driven workflows.

Model Analytics Essentials gives teams something they’ve never had before: continuous, automated, built-in visibility into model health across their entire cloud portfolio.

Why This Matters for Your Firm

Healthy models mean:

• Fewer unexpected crashes
• Shorter sync times
• More predictable coordination
• Clearer accountability
• Less downtime
• More time spent designing – not troubleshooting

It also means teams can stay proactive rather than reactive, which directly impacts schedules, budgets, and stress levels.

Better data = better decisions.
Better decisions = better outcomes.

Included for All Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration Subscribers

As part of this launch, we’re excited to share that Autodesk Model Analytics Essentials will be included as an entitlement for all Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM Collaborate Pro) subscribers.

Forma Design Collaboration will automatically gain access to Model Analytics Essentials inside Insight – no separate purchase required.

That baseline experience of real, meaningful visibility into your cloud-hosted Revit models, is available for teams to start using right away. Get more information here and click this link to add Model Analytics Essentials to your workflow to discover its benefits today. 

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Autodesk Civil 3D 2027 expands how teams design, analyze, and collaborate with the new Autodesk Assistant Tech Preview and Forma Data Management Essentials. These updates bring Autodesk AI-powered guidance and cloud-connected workflows directly into the Civil 3D experience, helping teams stay informed and aligned throughout project lifecycles.

This release also includes enhancements to drainage design and analysis, horizontal alignments, and grading workflows to help teams evaluate designs, iterate efficiently, and deliver infrastructure projects with greater confidence.

Autodesk Assistant Tech Preview

In Civil 3D 2027, Autodesk Assistant introduces a refreshed interface with an enhanced conversational experience and new tabs for managing a prompt library and chat history. These updates make it easier to review, save, and share prompts and responses to support project documentation.

A new Tech Preview also provides early access to additional Autodesk Assistant capabilities currently under development. When enabled, Autodesk Assistant can help with more complex questions and workflows using contextual drawing information. (1)

Current Tech Preview capabilities include:

• Selecting and navigating to drawing elements
• Querying drawing information to aggregate and summarize properties
• Analyzing objects and applying styles based on user-defined criteria

These capabilities are experimental and will continue to evolve. For more information, please see the Civil 3D 2027 help documentation.

(1) Powered by AI. Mistakes are possible; please double-check responses.

A connected design experience

Keep teams connected with a cloud-enabled design experience. Autodesk Forma extends Civil 3D workflows beyond the desktop, helping teams organize, share, and collaborate on project data in a centralized environment.

Forma Data Management Essentials

Included with standalone Civil 3D subscriptions, Forma Data Management Essentials provides a centralized, cloud-based environment to organize, view, and share project data. It supports 2D and 3D viewing and markups, search and filtering, folder-level permissions, basic issue tracking—helping teams stay aligned with shared project information.

Connected References

Quickly identify and resolve missing external drawing references (xrefs). When working in Forma Data Management, the External References palette automatically suggests updated file paths for renamed or moved references, reducing manual fixes and helping keep projects moving.

Connected Support Files

Maintain consistent project standards across teams. CAD managers can define one set of project-aware support files and settings for projects in Forma Data Management, allowing teams to view and edit drawings with the intended support files without additional setup.

Accelerated design and analysis

Enhancements in Civil 3D support faster, more informed design and analysis workflows. Updates to alignment design, drainage systems, and grading tools help you evaluate conditions, refine geometry, and iterate with greater efficiency.

Horizontal Regression Analysis

Civil 3D 2027 introduces several enhancements to Horizontal Regression Analysis to help you make more informed decisions about alignment geometry.

A refined, modeless interface allows you to edit and evaluate alignments directly in the drawing using Alignment Layout tools. A new Alignment Preview displays in real time and is linked to the Curvature Plots and Segment Table, enabling you to inspect and validate regression results as you refine the alignment.

An optional, pre-trained machine learning-powered detection method can also be used to generate more consistent regression results when analyzing complex survey data. Additional updates enhance stationing consistency and data accuracy.

Drainage Design and Analysis

Civil 3D 2027 continues to enhance integrated workflows for designing and analyzing storm drainage systems. With analysis capabilities powered by InfoDrainage, you can run basic site analysis for storm event simulations, evaluate system performance, and apply results directly to your model. For advanced design and analysis capabilities that connect to Civil 3D, designers can use Autodesk InfoDrainage.

Key updates include:

• Catchments: Support for FAA and Kirpich time of concentration methods.
• Channels: Streamlined support for multiple slopes within a single channel.
• Gravity Pipes: Enhanced labeling and added support for arch, elliptical, and egg-shaped pipes in analysis.
• Ponds: New porosity option to define available storage capacity.
• Underground Storage: Expanded connectivity and improved integration as a standardized Civil 3D object.

Additional improvements support working across versions of Civil 3D with Data Shortcuts. Updates to pipe and pressure pipe catalogs also support both local and cloud-based workflows through Autodesk Forma Data Management.

For more information, please visit the help page: Autodesk Drainage Tools for Civil 3D

Daylight Feature Line Tech Preview

In addition to improved stability and performance of Feature Lines, Civil 3D 2027 introduces a new Tech Preview to help automate the creation of daylight lines and streamline grading workflows.

Generate daylight feature lines from existing grading criteria without creating complex grading objects. You can refine results by selecting grading criteria, defining station ranges, specifying a side of the parent feature line, and assigning layers with names and styles. The resulting daylight lines behave like standard Feature Lines in Civil 3D and can be edited using familiar tools.

This Tech Preview is currently under development. For more information, please visit the help page: Feature Lines

Additional updates for Civil 3D

• Bridges: Display full bridge hierarchy in the prospector.
• Dynamo: Updated Dynamo Core with improved performance and upload experience.
• Spiral Tessellation: Improved spiral tessellation method now used by default.

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See the new updates in action in our upcoming webinar to see firsthand how these new capabilities can be applied to your civil infrastructure projects:

What’s New in Civil 3D webinar – Tuesday, April 21, 2026 – 8 am PDT | 11 am EDT | 5 pm CEST

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To learn more about the updates in Civil 3D 2027 and recent releases, visit:

• What’s new in Civil 3D 2027 (Product Help)
• What’s new in Civil 3D 2026.2 (Blog)

To access the latest features, open Autodesk Access on your desktop or visit the Autodesk Account center. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you can explore Civil 3D with a free trial.

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What if you could learn something useful about your favorite Autodesk design software in under 90 seconds?

We’re experimenting with “Learning Reels,” ultra-short videos designed to surface practical tips, highlight expert workflows, and spark ideas you can immediately apply in your work. They are “quick wins” for your day.

We would love your feedback!

Check out the pilot Learning Reels using the links provided and share your feedback as a comment on the LinkedIn post.

Autodesk Revit

• Revit Customer Steel Connections
• Revit Publish Settings
• Revit Split Rebar
• Revit Project Browser Search

After reviewing the reels, we’d love to hear:

• Are these learning reels helpful?
• Is the format too short, too fast, or just right?
• What topics would you like to see next?
• Which products should we prioritize?

Why Learning Reels?

Many of you tell us the same thing. You want to stay current with features, you want practical workflows (not just theory), and you don’t always have time to work your way through a full course, hunting for those practical time-saving tips.

Learning Reels are designed to be high-impact, low-effort, and focused on a single feature or workflow. They are built to create quick awareness and curiosity and provide an entry point into deeper learning.

We don’t expect them to replace structured learning. They’re a gateway to the structured learning content you can find on:

• Autodesk Learn: Our primary learning platform for product courses and structured learning paths
• Autodesk Forma Learn: Focused learning resources for Autodesk Forma users

What We’re Exploring Next

We’re developing an initial learning model for short-form content and piloting additional topics across Autodesk products.

Our goals are to increase awareness of useful features and workflows, spotlight Autodesk experts, and signpost you to deeper learning content when you need it.

We’re closely watching impressions, click-through rates, and engagement — but what matters most is whether these are genuinely useful to you.

Be sure to drop your thoughts in the LinkedIn comments. Your feedback will shape how we evolve this approach and what we build next.

Let’s make learning faster, more practical, and easier to discover.

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