Our Revit projects are just coordinated better, more accurate and provide more deliverables to the clients and contractors. My company and myself included can produce documents in both at a breakneck pace. I wont ever say Revit is faster than autocad or vise versa. Autocad Architectures BIM program is a powerful tool as well, just not as powerful as Revit.
Let me be clear I am not being specific to Revit, I am comparing BIM to CAD. I'll take BIM modeling, shop drawings and prefab any day over some crappy drafting plans. You must have a lot of faith in your contractor to let them waste time and money figuring out everything in the field I'm not that trustful. I could not disagree with you more but it's nice to see the other side of things once in a while. That is an interesting point of view you have.
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I am so pleased with AutoCAD's speed and flexibility, and with the ability to change customization as changes occur in building code in the various jurisdictions. Revit, on the other hand ends up supplying so much detail, creating huge files, managing so much information that may never even be used by the contractor because so much is eventually decided in the field anyway. Electrical is mostly optional for the architect, and may be added to floor plans to serve as a guide for the electrcal contractor's designer in the same manner as plumbing fixtures in the floor plan. The architect, really is required to create floor plans that include stuctural notation supplied by structural engineer or designer or by the architect himself are site plans, Elevations, sections, foundation, floor and roof plans, ceiling plans (rarely), and lateral plans or lateral notation on plans. What they do require: topographical survey (mostly supplied by civil engineering firm), site plan, floor plans, elevations, sections, structural details, lateral plans and details (usually supplied by structural engineering firm), electrical plans and lighting plans (wiring and switches to be designed by electrical contracting firm), fire sprinkler plans (designed by firm other than architect), landscape plan (designed by landscape "architect" or designer). Things jurisditions do not require and builders don't want to pay for in residential architecture: BIM, interior elevations, walk-throughs.
AutoCAD gives us the ability to EASILY customize via LISP and CUI(X). These features don't come from core commands. No need to even know tha hatch pattern name or scale. Doors sizes can be quickly changed, swung the opposite direction, partially open, closed, or fully open, wall lines can be connected and closed FAST! Floor Plans are quickly referenced in lateral plans, changes to a hatch pattern that cause the pattern to lose associativity are quickly rehatched. In AutoCAD walls at different floor levels can be quicikly visually compared, and changes are quick and easy. In my experience, 3D modeling is unnecessary time-comsuming glitz that is totally unnecessary.
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AutoCAD can be customized so much, that if someone knows how to customize (as I do), a residential plan set can be made quite quickly. News / Articles / Tutorials / Forums / Resources That has helped me clear my confusions.ĪutoCAD is Autodesk's main cash cow! I don't think it's going anywhere, anytime soon. Part of the problem is that that autoCAD is so well established across so many industries, Autodesk cannot afford to change it for Architecture's sake.
Architectural Desktop is better integrated with AutoCAD for those who want a more familiar interface for 3D modeling. AutoCAD is obviously going to continue but it will not be the BIM program Revit is becomming.Īutodesk has owned and been developing Revit separately for a decade- If they were going to incorporate it into AutoCAD, they would have made the move already. If anything, I think AutoDESK may wean AutoCAD Architecture folks out. Although AutoDESK has incorporeated some parts of Revit into AutoCAD, there is no indication at all that they will be "incorporating" Revit into AutoCAD. AutoCAD and Revit are two very different programs.