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Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:15:38 PM | Career

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Hi, i am interested in a career working with revit.

my goal is to eventualy get hired by a firm. im kinda in a confused state of mind at the moment and was hoping

some one can clear some things up for me.

 

I  have been working with revit archetcure now for a few weeks and i like working with it.

questions:

what role would some one have in revit archetctural? meaning am i supposed to know how to to build things? (example:

the right beams and joints on objects)

or does some one give me the demensions and i build in in revit?

 

also what should i have or take classes for to help get hired by firms?

 

Thanks

 

 


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Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:53:41 AM | Career

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Do you have any experience/schooling in Architecture at all?  Without experience or schooling it would be very difficult to find work.  There are architectural drafters out there who's sole job is to draft up work created by an architect and while for the most part you are told what to draft (example: what beam size is needed) you need to have an understanding of how things are put together and how the building works so that you don't need someone to stand over your shoulder the whole time you are working because nobody is going to do that. 


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My career path... was lucky and unconventional (got into revit 10 years ago out of boredom while emptying trash cans and working the blue-line machine back when it was a novelty program) and was a bit nepotistic.  So I can't offer practical advice on the correct path, but I CAN tell you what employers are looking for.

 

- Practical work.  Show that you can make a nice-looking SET.  The same old boring line drawings that are printed out on 11x17 paper.  Maybe a beautiful detail or two.  Many firms anxious about the switch to revit seize on detailing, and choke trying to turn the 3D model into 2D representative pages. Revit is still a drafting tool.  The client and the contractor likely cannot use the 3D model.

 

- Beautiful renders.   Show that you can make a building look *good* in revit.  Not lifeless and discolored and blocky or gray.  But don't focus too much on pretty renders unless it's somehow applicable to a non-average architectural firm.

 

- Atypical geometry (but maybe not too crazy?) that demonstrates you have a mastery of the program.  Too many people produce cubes with revit because it's easy, and justify the design post-hoc.   An architect hiring a draftsman wants to feel they're ENABLED by the software, not limited by it.

 

Your role--as a draftsman--is to take sketches from the architects, and recreate them in revit.  I guess it depends on the age of the architect and their own skill level.  But yes, dimensions and such will be dictated to you, and then further revisions come down the pipe int he form of "redlines".  Basically, you print something out, and then someone higher up looks over the plan/section/3D view, and points out things that need to be changed. 

 

CONSTANT changes is the theme of architecture, and that's why revit is so powerful, because it updates changes in the geometry across all views, where autocad could not. 



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