Anyone here use Revit instead of CAD for drawing ?

toonarmy1

User of revit and was wondering is there any move to people using Revit for construction planning drawings or are people sticking to autocad ?

DOCARCH

toonarmy1 wrote: »

...is there any move to people using Revit for construction planning drawings or are people sticking to autocad?

It's the future! All will move to Revit...sometime (in the future).

toonarmy1

How long will this move be ye think ?

What are peoples level of revit here ? I use it for 90% of work then export it to cad for touching up sections elevations and cleaning up joins on walls on plans.

DOCARCH

It could be 10 years before most are working in Revit, but I'd say it will happen.

All government contracts in the UK, from 2016, as far as I am aware, will have to be undertaken in Revit/BIM. So I'm sure we will follow at some stage.

sydthebeat

ive been threatening to change for the last 5 years......

this year!!! i swear

toonarmy1

The ease of making changes I like in it , you change it once and its done in all views no drawing construction lines to line something up.

I'm working in architects office on Jobbridge and I am the only user of revit in the office so i get loads of practice and when i have to do a whole project in CAD it feels like Im gone back in time

DOCARCH

sydthebeat wrote: »

ive been threatening to change for the last 5 years......

this year!!! i swear

Me too...but give me 5 years!

I did a 1-day introduction course in Revit/BIM, mainly to see what it's all about (and rack up a few CPD points!).

I could see from that, Revit/BIM is to CAD as CAD is to pen/paper drafting, but, it's not an easy change over...that's why there are not many using it. You really need to set aside quite a bit of time to get in any way proficient.

The cost of the software and annual license does not help either!

Outkast_IRE

I am a student working for a relatively small company which provides the complete package, Arch, Struct, M&E etc and they are currently trying to change over from CAD to Revit.

I have spent the entire summer working on a large scale project done in revit with plenty of process pipe and customised vessels of all shapes and sizes etc involved. At first the company was complaining that it took longer to do in Revit, but the advantage became more obvious as the project moved on as co-ordination issues were tackled early and using navisworks walkthroughs and visualisations made it very easy to check how equipment would fit into spaces and be piped up etc. The client was very impressed with Revit and the visualisations and walkthroughs visible in Navisworks.

I am heading back to finish the 4th year of my degree and the companies biggest problem is finding any staff that are capable of using the program to the required level. People trained in revit to any decent level of competence are few and far between.

DOCARCH

toonarmy1 wrote: »

I'm working in architects office on Jobbridge and I am the only user of revit in the office so i get loads of practice and when i have to do a whole project in CAD it feels like Im gone back in time

Keep plugging away at it and get proficient...soon you will be expert in the office and will become invaluable!

For any graduate AT or architect I think proficiency in Revit/BIM is a must these days (...make you very employable!).

toonarmy1

For the MEP do the college teach you are did you teach yourself?

Outkast_IRE

toonarmy1 wrote: »

For the MEP do the college teach you are did you teach yourself?

We were the first class that was taught in our college, we just finished our ordinary degree and are carrying on to honours this year.

toonarmy1

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

We were the first class that was taught in our college, we just finished our ordinary degree and are carrying on to honours this year.

U find it hard to pick ? was thinking of joining some online training course to learn about it.
Have ye done alot of structure during the course

toonarmy1

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

We were the first class that was taught in our college, we just finished our ordinary degree and are carrying on to honours this year.

U find it hard to pick up
? was thinking of joining some online training course to learn about it.
Have ye done alot of structure during the course

Outkast_IRE

toonarmy1 wrote: »

U find it hard to pick up
? was thinking of joining some online training course to learn about it.
Have ye done alot of structure during the course

No structure , my course is building services with an emphasis on mechanical services so we concentrate on that side, however from where i was working this summer they have been doing some interesting work using the autodesk robot structural analysis software and bringing designs into revit from that.

But at the same time to the best of my knowledge you could do the designs in revit but you would need other software to do a full analysis of it.


Revit can be quite tricky to pick up a piece of my job this summer was training in others in the program and acting as a support for them and problem solving any issues that were cropping up. Its the sort of program where you either need someone knowledgeable to guide you or you need to do an intensive course of it and then practice.

DvB

Our firm has made the move over to REVIT, 90% of any new works are done on it, to be fair, whilst the drawings don't look as well when printed IMO (a work in progress getting the office standards to match up) the advantages are huge in terms of working through designs & highlighting clashes etc.

For old timers like me with 20+ years on AutoCAD its a hell of a shift, but am slowly getting my head around the possibilities contained within the package, as I spend less than 10% of my time drawing these days thankfully it hasn't been the shock to the system it could have been so my learning curve is just a tad shallower than for the teccies who really were thrown in at the deep end.

As the sector picks up I expect it to become the industry norm pretty quickly.

Glebee

Anyone able to recommend online training?? I guess its either do it ourselves on line or else a Bolton St course.

Outkast_IRE

Glebee wrote: »

Anyone able to recommend online training?? I guess its either do it ourselves on line or else a Bolton St course.

There are a few courses around i know that the one of the lads in the office did an intensive 12 week one in galway.

There are other companies that offer one on one day/multiday sessions or group sessions.

toonarmy1

Glebee wrote: »

Anyone able to recommend online training?? I guess its either do it ourselves on line or else a Bolton St course.

I might be doin the advanced one on lynda.com the weekend ill let you know if its any good.

toonarmy1

can any1 recommend a good mouse for revit ? have just a standard one was thinking of upgrading

BryanF

toonarmy1 wrote: »

I might be doin the advanced one on lynda.com the weekend ill let you know if its any good.

did you do the course - any good?

toonarmy1

BryanF wrote: »

did you do the course - any good?

didnt get around to it , its 8 hours long so might try get it done over a few days .lynda.com/Revit-Architecture-tutorials/Advanced-Modeling-Revit-Architecture/89811-2.html

this is it

Glebee

Anybody do any more on training???

ruskin

Anyone got any good families they have made? Been trying to make some for the office here, tiring work!

toonarmy1

ya signed up to lynda.com website its good but i would advise that you have 2 screens to do the courses

For the families i download most and modify if needed but there are so many available online that I usually find the ones that i need

Sandman777

toonarmy1 wrote: »

ya signed up to lynda.com website its good but i would advise that you have 2 screens to do the courses

For the families i download most and modify if needed but there are so many available online that I usually find the ones that i need

Can you recommend best sites to download families? Thanks

toonarmy1

Sandman777 wrote: »

Can you recommend best sites to download families? Thanks

Bimstore.co.uk
Bimobject.com

Revitcity and autodesk seek have some good stuff aswell but you'll have to go through alot of stuff to get what you want

Sandman777

toonarmy1 wrote: »

Bimstore.co.uk
Bimobject.com

Revitcity and autodesk seek have some good stuff aswell but you'll have to go through alot of stuff to get what you want

Cheers thanks for that!!

toonarmy1

Does anybody have any good corner window family ?

zom

Sandman777 wrote: »

Can you recommend best sites to download families? Thanks

Now you started to talk here!
As I have years of experience through CAD systems I always found BIM software (Archicad, Nemetschek or Revit) too much time consuming for fast and creative architectural job. But maybe I just never have opportunity to work in that pace that gives you time to polish every detail of your project. I can't believe we will come to the point all project will be done like that - but I wish I will find that pace some day...

toonarmy1

Has any1 updated to revit 2015 ?