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I am the owner/architect of a small residential firm that is looking to move to revit building. Our office is currently working on an archaic system and I am looking for someone's brain to pick about the software: -Is Revit geared more toward large firms and commercial type projects vs. a 2-3 person firm doing custom residential and small commercial projects? - I have researched and know you can do some amazing things with this software but we design custom homes and rarely repeat details. On the front end and going through the learning curve can you create custom designs more efficiently than in a 2D program? - Can custom interior details/shop drawings be created in Revit and is it different than the traditioin line type drawings? -sharing Revit outgoing and incoming files with engineers, land surveyors, etc. that work in autocad?
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I am also have small custom home firm and I'll tell you right now, when your client picks up that phone and calls you and says "I need to make some minor changes" (uh huh sure) you will be thanking yourself for making the change over and over. Revit is a thing of beauty. Say your client asks you to change a window. Or move it. Revit automatically updates this change in every single view. Every one. The time you are going to save just in this one area will pay for itself in no time. Your sheets are all updated, your sections are updated, your elevations, your hatches, your materials list....everything. Done. The most beautiful invention ever is the extrusion command. A simple profile in 2d will result in baseboard, crown moulding, fascia, soffits, trim, etc. The roof commands, once you get the concept of how to do it, as far as I'm concerned is the best out there. I can draw anything on a custom, extremely cut up roof. Many people will say Revit will replace ADT. I'm not so convinced of this, but at least the 2 programs are owned by the same company, not to mention the rendering capabilities from Max/Viz and the ability to import all your material assignments. I think you will find you will have more repeating details than you think. Personally I wish the custom modeling in the family editor was a little more friendly, but it has it's good points and you can also import modeling from Max/Viz that is already done by many others which you can download for free or you can also find some wicked models for reasonable prices.
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I would make the switch in a heartbeat. This is the best drafting (read Modeling) system out there. Like framerman said once you get comfortable with the system, you can really fly. Your production output will increase dramatically. The elimination of using line representation is wonderful. The acuracy that is built in to the BIM ( Building Information Model) allows for less mistakes the parametric change is a god send and the abilty to export to a native DWG format will allow you to coordinate with you consultants is fantastic. I would say that for the investment you should see an encredible ROI quickly. Best, Jeremiah P.S.If you are looking to hire in your Boston office please email me. I can send you a copy of my resume and talk offline.
Edited on: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 1:07:56 PM
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