Many people are wondering what the prospect of Revit API development is. They believe there is some opportunities, however don’t know how big it is and how large the market will be. Even Revit based products still have many limitations, gaps, and are not mature as AutoCAD, I still would say that there is a great opportunity for Revit API development and there would be a great increase market on this with grows of Revit market. There are three reasons.

First, building information modeling (BIM) is the future of building modeling and would be a standard. It proves its value in the complete life cycle of building modeling starting from the very beginning stage – conceptual design.

Second, all Revit based products which are parametric BIM tools are the main BIM tools produced by Autodesk. Autodesk will definitely reinforce these products to make it as the leader role in this area. From the latest 2011 release, we can see many new features / enhancement / problem fix. And I believe Autodesk will improve these products continuously.

Third, as we know, none software can satisfy every user, there always be gaps between the user requirements and the software capabilities. So many smart companies deliver their public API for their software and allow third party developer to develop add-ins based on their API. There are tons of successful cases. Like apple’s iPhone platform and Autodesk’s AutoCAD platform. The third party add-ins will also add value to the platform. From the change in 2011 Revit API, we can see that Autodesk is trying to provide as much API as possible and I am expecting Revit API will be as strong as AutoCAD APIs at the end of day.

Based on these, I have confidence that Revit API development has a bright future. The only concern is how quick Autodesk will make the Revit success and make the Revit API strong enough.