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How many actually use Revit for it's 3D capabilities.
I work for a construction/engineering company that mostly do steel fab'd warehouses. Our plans are almost entirely 2D plans.
We made the switch from AutoCAD 3.0 with Architectural Desktop 3.3 (yup, they used that software until about a year ago; and we still use it sometimes) because of it's capability to easily show elevation views and capabilities to automatically update in other views and mainly for the sake of keynoting.
While I am impressed with it's capabilities, I have found it's use for our needs to be impractical. So I was wondering, do other companies that use this program do mostly 2D drawings; and if so, how/why do they find it to be better than AutoCAD?
Some reasons I have found for it being less practical than AutoCAD are as follows:
Cons:
Takes longer than CAD to produce sheet drawings.
Takes longer than CAD to produce section detail drawings; with cad we can simply copy/paste details into a job that have the same wall-type as another project. There are ways to tailor this aspect to make it quicker, but so far I have yet to convince my Drafting Supervisor that this would be a quicker and more efficient (better) way to go about our (creating detail drawings) of our wall sections."
somewhere i saw a (3 part?) blog that showed a few ways to deal with 2d details. i think two methods were importing dwg.
"Have found that while dimensioning for the most part is better than CAD, still have some of the same technical issues as dimensioning in CAD. Kind of a trade off of pros and cons I think that really make it not much better than dimensioning in CAD.
Updating walls can have an adverse effect on other sheets we work with.
Long loading time.
Still have to manage each view/sheet just like in CAD to show only what you want to see on the print.
Pros:
Easily generates Elevation views
All sheets within one file
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have you considered using revit as just a sheet manager? :-)
really, autocad seems incapable of printing the last few years. it seemed to work ok back in 2002. not sure where they went bad.
i'm using only as a student, so presumably there are workarounds I haven't discovered.
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