Only Available Online - Revised on August 28th, 2018
Reported Issues Resolved within Revit 2019
This list represents the reported issues and improvements resolved in Autodesk Revit 2019 within build: 20180806_1515. For more information about these improvements, see the What's New section of the Revit 2019 Online Help.
It includes the following:
2019.1 Update
Security
As part of Autodesk’s ongoing efforts to provide the best security possible to our customers, we proactively applied security updates to our cloud servers. The Revit 2019.1 update includes an update to the product which is needed to maintain access to certain features after October 17th, for more details refer to Autodesk Knowledge Network.
Improvements
Added the ability to link topography published from Civil 3D.
Improved the user experience to handle different error cases for topography links.
Added Revit Home, a modernized experience to access models and BIM 360 Design projects.
Improved Recent Files behavior to always create a local file when selecting a central model.
Added the ability to set sample projects shown on Revit Home by language.
Added the ability to use free form rebar to create rebar sets with planar bars distributed along the faces of a structural element and aligned to a distribution path.
Added the ability to align section view marks using the Align tool.
Added the ability to use snaps and snap overrides while placing section view marks.
Improved the control of fill patterns on the top of walls.
Improved the import of fill patterns from DWG files.
Improved the dialog boxes for “Go To View” and “Add View to Sheet” to make them resizable.
Support IFC Links from BIM 360 with Desktop Connector.
Help links now use https instead of http and support single sign-on functionality.
Resolved Issues
Platform
Annotation Tags
Fixed an issue that caused some tags, which tag elements from Revit nested links, to shift location in the host file.
Closing Revit
Improved stability when exiting Revit.
Cloud Rendering
Improved cloud rendering time limitation from 100s to 600s.
Cloud Worksharing
Fixed an issue to prevent the Collaborate button from displaying when opening a cloud workshared project in Viewer mode.
Fixed an issue that resulted in an Unauthorized Resource Error dialog displaying when a user opens a project that has links to which the user does not have access. Instead, the Manage Links dialog now displays to allow the user to fix the path and load the link correctly.
Color Fills
Added measures to prevent view printing until color fills have finished calculating.
Decals
Improved stability when splitting a wall with a decal.
Improved stability when upgrading projects that contain images.
Design Options
Fixed an issue that occurred when placing components in a group while in a design option.
Dimensions
Improved stability when copying and pasting certain dimensions onto cut edges.
Fixed an issue that resulted in an error when toggling a dimension reference that references a view-specific cut line.
Export
Improved stability when exporting sheets to DWG and DXF format when views include dimensions rotated perpendicular to the view.
Fixed an issue in which the text color in an exported DWFx file was not overridden by "black" when "Black Lines" was specified in the Print Setup dialog.
Family Category and Parameters
Corrected the Family Category and Parameters dialog list to remove display categories that should be hidden.
File Open/Save/Upgrade
Improved stability when upgrading projects that contain families with corrupt DWG imports.
Improved stability when opening or saving a project.
Improved stability when exiting the File Open dialog.
Fixed an issue that prevented some projects from upgrading to 2019 format.
Improved stability when upgrading projects from previous Revit releases.
Fixed an issue that resulted in the unintended deletion of elements, which are then later reported as missing.
Improved stability when saving project while in edit mode.
Improved stability when upgrading projects that contain invalid mass geometry.
Improved stability when upgrading projects that require upgrades to independent views and associated sketch planes.
Help
Corrected an issue that occurred when pressing F1 in the Modify Dimensions tab and hovering over the Label text box or the Create Parameter tool. Both the Label text box and Create Parameter tool now display tooltips, and pressing F1 displays appropriate Help topics.
Enhanced the contents of the Levels tooltip.
Added a Help link to the dialog that displays when the default family templates cannot be found.
Import
Added the ability to import DWG files that contain font names longer than 31 characters.
InfoCenter
Fixed an issue in which Revit failed to start due to creation failures related to the default InfoCenter options file.
Fixed an issue to allow InfoCenter interactions to be properly recorded in journals as well as Customer Involvement Program (CIP) collection.
Materials
Improved stability when using the Paint dialog to apply materials to elements in a 3D view.
Improved stability when working with the Material Browser.
Improved stability when working with materials browser to edit material properties and generate thumbnail images.
Improved stability that could occur when using Paint tool.
Offset
Fixed an issue that caused unexpected results when using the offset tool.
Performance
Fixed an issue that could cause Revit to run out of Windows resources when working with multiple projects.
Project Browser
Improved instability when using keyboard shortcuts while the Project Browser is in focus.
Improved stability when double-clicking an item in the Project Browser.
Schedules
Improved stability when working with schedule view.
Improved stability when upgrading a project or family file with a revision schedule.
Improved stability when deleting a parameter in a schedule.
Undo/Redo
Reduced likelihood of producing missing elements after performing combination of save and undo commands.
User Interface
Fixed an issue that could lead to the display of an unexpected dialog while using Revit with dual monitors.
Improved error messaging when launching Revit without the appropriate .NET Framework version installed.
Fixed an issue where pressing the space bar in the Filters Dialog Box would result in the addition of multiple spaces.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Autodesk App Store from launching from within Revit.
Improved stability when revitworker.exe is not available.
Improved stability when closing Revit from the Windows task manager.
View Templates
Fixed an issue in the Visibility Graphics dialog that caused the Override Host Layers Edit button to be active when it should not be after applying a view template.
Views
Improved the Zoom Region tool so that it now moves the camera instead of zooming an uncropped perspective view, and can be used as a navigation tool.
Improved the behavior of 3D views when using Orient to View from the ViewCube, so that the section box is activated and clips the model according to the 2D view's crop, view range, or far clip.
Fixed extraneous lines of a section box in an uncropped perspective view.
Improved stability when operating in views with a macro.
Fixed an issue that caused rendering images with an uncropped perspective to be very large when the resolution is set to Printer in the rendering dialog.
Worksharing
Improved stability when modifying and loading a family back into a project, and the family workset must be made editable to overwrite the existing version.
Architecture
Railings
The non-continuous railing dialog no longer allows users to enter names with prohibited characters.
Stairs
Improved stability when upgrading projects that contain multistory stairs.
MEP
Cloud Worksharing
Fixed an issue that caused random wires to be checked out when opening projects.
Duct/Pipe
Improved stability when using the rotate grip of an MEP connector.
Improved stability when modifying a hydraulically-separated piping network.
Improved stability when working with projects that contain MEP connectors.
Fixed an issue that could cause instability in Revit while dragging a pipe connector to connect to another element.
Fixed an issue that could cause hydronic systems to be assigned incorrectly when changing the junction type at a hydraulic separation point.
Fixed an issue where pipe fittings connected to pipes with very small slopes would get shifted when exporting to DWG/DXF.
Fixed an issue that caused branches to be deleted when changing the offset of the main run in a duct or pipe system.
Corrected the visibility of analytical pipe connections that are inside a plan region, but not inside the view range of the plan region.
Fixed an issue that could affect the display of center lines of ducts and pipes and their fittings when printing.
Fixed an issue that could prevent the removal of unconnected inline equipment from a duct or pipe system when using the Remove from System tool.
Fixed an issue that could cause pipes to be reassigned to the wrong system when a network with multiple hydronic systems (e.g., heating and cooling) is hydraulically separated.
Duct/Pipe Pressure Loss Calculations
Fixed an issue that could prohibit the flow from a pipe connector in a mechanical equipment family.
Fabrication
Improved the behavior of fabrication taps so they resize correctly when re-hosting to different size pipe.
Fixed an issue with the change service feature that caused the available service list to be over-filtered.
Improved performance in Opening/Reloading network configuration operations from a remote server.
Improved performance of opening the fabrication parts dialog used to preview and modify a fabrication element.
Improved stability when using the type selector while in the Multi-Point Routing command.
Added the oversize reviewable warning to oversized parts when using the Multi-Point Routing command.
Help
Fixed an issue with Wire button tooltip video not loading.
User Interface
Updated the user interface to hide some unsupported commands when Piping Analysis tools are disabled in the ribbon.
Spaces
Fixed an issue in which spaces no longer display in the System Browser and in the heating and cooling loads calculation in a workshared project.
Worksharing
Improved performance when running Reload Latest in a worksharing environment that containing thousands of MEP elements and spaces in the project.
Structure
Rebar
Fixed an issue that caused the position of tags on rebar in a linked Revit project to be reset upon reloading the linked project.
Improved stability when editing the family of a rebar shape created by sketch.
Fixed an issue where changing the rebar type during placement of free form rebar would create the bar with the existing type.
Fixed an issue where Reinforcement Length units were used for the spacing in the Summary parameter of an area reinforcement tag, instead of Reinforcement Spacing.
Structural Connections
Fixed an issue that would cause the Undo command to work incorrectly when applied to steel fabrication-related operations in a project in worksharing mode.
Updated the UI to remove the Customize button that displayed in the contextual ribbon when a failed connection was selected.
Fixed an issue that caused work planes to become disconnected from associated faces after changing the order of input elements for the connection.
Fixed an issue that caused steel fabrication elements to be deleted after performing undo, save and redo actions, by having redo become unavailable in this context.
Fixed and issue that caused a gusset plate to lose its initial shape after adding it to a custom connection.
Fixed an issue where a steel base plate connection became invalid after deleting one of its sub elements.
Fixed an issue that caused the Column Cut settings of connection parameters to be lost when copying a Base Plate Cut connection.
Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect transfer when copying a connection from the 3D view of one project to the floor plan of another project.
Fixed an issue that caused the tags placed on sub-elements to remain visible in a view when the sub-element category was set to hidden.
Fixed an issue where steel elements still appeared in the filter of a selection, even though they were outside of the crop region/section.
Enabled the section box option for selected connections in Collaboration for Revit after using the reload latest option.
Fixed an export behavior issue that caused an incorrect export to DWG of a Revit file with added steel connections.
Improved stability when placing dimensions during the editing or sketching of steel plates.
Truss
Fixed an issue that caused the rotation of a truss element not to be maintained after performing common actions, such as move or copy, on the truss.
Fixed an issue that could cause a truss to not be correctly mirrored in some cases.
Improved stability on truss editing to avoid a crash that occurred when double-clicking on the truss to edit it.
API
Exposed the fabrication insulation geometry in the public API.
Improved stability when printing sheets through the API.
Updated the getElements API method for duct and pipe systems to only return the end terminals.
Improved stability in the API caused by UndoMgrInterface.cpp.
Fixed an issue with handling user interface APIs.
Exposed to API the ability to copy parts’ division profiles across elements.
2019.0.1 Hotfix
Resolved Issues
Fixed an issue with the display of the licensing dialogs when running Revit as a trial.
Improved stability when opening projects or 3D views, which have 3D views with levels displayed.
Improved stability when replacing a material asset assigned to an element.
Corrected the link to the Autodesk App Store from within Revit.
Improved stability when working with element properties within the Properties Palette.
Fixed an issue where the image size was very large for uncropped perspective renderings.
Added the ability to render a smaller region of the view in an uncropped perspective view.
Fixed an issue where Render in Cloud would fail for perspective views that had been uncropped.
Fixed an issue with rendering physical materials in cloud rendering.
Fixed the key accelerators within Dynamo when started from within Revit.
Corrects the sort order of folders and files in the Open dialog for BIM 360 Docs location.