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az101010
Joined: 25 May 2009
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 Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: Mentality of Denial |
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late last year the number of revit seats were
up to 350,000- by the end of 2009 there is
expected to be nearly 400,000 seats of revit..
how does one deny that or pretend it don't
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John Cruet
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
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Location: Guilford, CT
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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It has everything to do with Autodesk's marketing prowess that Revit is catching on this way.
No one is in denial about Revit that I know of.
But, fact of the matter is, there are alternative solutions that either equal or beat Revit in many aspects.
ArchiCad and Vectorworks Architect are two alternatives that the Revit people must face in the BIM battle. I auditioned both, and find both have lots of merit.
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archiform3d
Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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Location: USA & Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:46 am Post subject: The transition to object orientated 3D CAD |
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Actually, I think it is just the mentality of not wanting to change. Ought-to CAD is simple in concept - draws lines. ArchiCAD and it's poor cousin copy-cat Revit are more object orientated and far more suitable for architecture.
It will take a while but it will all change. I remember when they got ArchiCAD into universities in Australia and students just didn't want to touch anything else after that. Problem was the "old-school" people couldn't grasp what it was all about and many still cant. The combination of drawing plans while making a building model just confuses many and they see ArchiCAD as just a tool for making 3D buildings or even worse they use it for 2D plans and actually draw elevations in 2D too.
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mertens3d
Joined: 05 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject: revit |
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i made the switch to revit about a year ago. It was really more of an experiment to see what it had to offer. I've used autocad, cadvance and architectural desktop. Revit is by far the best product of those for architectural work.
Given that it's owned by Autodesk (who i am not best friends with) and givene that autodesk pretty much owns the cad world I feel Revit will be the dominent product for the next 8 years or so.
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