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FranBerenguer

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Dear people of Revit City, I hope you are well.

My name is Francisco Berenguer. Currently I am working in a planning firm in Barnet (London, UK) as architect. Right now in the office we are using AutoCAD for the planning application drawings and Sketchup+V-Ray for 3d models and render. I have been researching about how to start using Revit. Of course, it would make fast some processes, but as some houses require a bit of detail that in AutoCAD can be sorted really quickly, I am not 100% sure about how to implement Revit in the day to day at work. The thing for planning application drawings is that usually they don´t require a lot of detail. Have you ever used Revit for the planning stage. If so, I am really interested to see how did it go.

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Francisco

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Hey buddy,

Some bullet points to help..

- The best way to learn Revit is at the start of a new project.- Do not send staff on learning courses unless they have a project to immediate start practicing on. Revit is a complex beast and there is a lot to learn, so repeating what was learnt on the course must be done immediately afterward.- Hire a good Revit user (or BIM Manager) to begin with and use them to support and train all new Revit users. You need someone in-house to rely on for a solid month during the intitial training period. They are also needed to create the office Revit library, Revit templates and Revit standards and help guides.- Try not to change from AutoCAD to Revit mid-stream as you will end up drawing the project up twice and this will reduce project profitability and cause confusion during the dual stream phase.- Staff that are keen to learn Revit and are proactive in learning it are the best users to start training with. Staff forced to use Revit will resist learning how to model correctly and simply draw a lot like they would in AutoCAD which is just pointless.- Once you go to Revit you will not need AutoCAD, Sketchup or Vray. Revit can do it all. If you do decide though to use them, be aware of the loss of project profit that arises when you redraw the model first in AutoCAD, then in Sketchup and then in Vray. Its a waste if you ask me.- Revit is expensive so shop around the Revit resellers across the UK and Ireland for the best price. I have identifed difference in prices by up to 40%. Consider renting Revit as it is cheaper over the first 4.5 years comared to buying a license outright.- Being planners, I assume you do not do as construction drawings and you do not do manage projects onsite. Just beware that Revit needs a lot more time upfront as you have to 3D model everything earlier on.

Good Luck

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I will add this.   Once you learn even Revit's 2D, you wont want to use CAD anymore.  And then of course you have everything else....

Beau gave you good advice.   Start with just one or two people, you could send them to a short training session but no longer than a week.  Your brain fills up pretty quickly and beyond that is overload.  You need a small project to start with and if possible, you need to make a clean break from CAD.  Do it all in Revit.  You will need awhile to develop your process.  It took us over a year just to develope our office standards but we were doing larger and larger projects in that time.  We also started training our staff.  Teaching helps develop your best users but they need to be someone that communicates well and are patient.

BTW - We all complained the first few weeks but the only time anyone complains now is if they have to open CAD for some reason.

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