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Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:24:30 PM | Revit MEP

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Very new to Revit. Have been using Autocad since before it was a windows based product. I have been creating 3d piping and duct layouts for over 10 years. This is a completely different animal, and in it's ability to provide detail, it seems a bit behind. I've been speaking with a lot of engineers and architects, and because they all swear that this is where the market is headed, I've decided to get into this. Since everyone here has more knowledge of this program than I do, I have a couple of questions;

Creating models of equipment is very important, and since all my Autocad based 3d models are now useless, is there any information available for modeling? The help area seems a bit weak on this information.

Also, Since my main body of work is mechanical coordination, shop drawings, and construction documents, can this provide the detail required for these areas?

Any help would be appreciated. Been using the trial version for the past few weeks, and ordered a program last week.


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Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:00:20 AM | Revit MEP

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creating families is yes very important, the problem is it can be very time consuming and costly to the bottom line...esp in the coordination world where there is no time to wait. there are some good tutorials both on augi and there about beginning families although it still is a lot of trial and error. If you dont feel like hurting the bottom line i would suggest to take a look at these guys, solid mep content http://cadworks.net/Revit.htm or andaken but i cant find their website for some reason...

so on to coordination and shops...unfortunately revit is a design application, you can do the mech coordination and the cds you need quite well and efficiently; however, shops are a completely different animal if you are looking for a generic shop drawing ya you could do it you will swear at the machine alot. ive tried it...not pretty...ive gone back to cad and cad-duct for shops. although you have to trace everything that you have done in revit. there is no translation there yet the ducts and equipement come in as asic solids.

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