Hi Griff -
I cannot comment on the ability of your reseller to provide adequate Revit
Systems training because 1) I don't know who they are and 2) I don't know
if they have any training on Revit Systems. It is quite possible that your
best bet for training at this point may be Autodesk Consulting.
I know that some of our consulting staff has been responsible for training
many or our internal AE's as well as possibly some of the resellers (or at
least providing the content for their training), and they are potentially
the most qualified people to provide end user training as well. I'm a bit
hesitant to post their email addresses without permission, but if you want
to send me an email at jason dot martin at Autodesk dot com I would be more
than happy to forward your message to them (and this holds true for anyone
interested in Revit Systems training).
I would like to address one of the comments that you made in your previous
post...
"To me It's not as intuitive as Revit Building."
OK, so Revit Systems as a R1 product isn't as intuitive as Revit Building
was as an R6-7-8 product when you started using it. Ya know what, I
completely agree. Unfortunately the only way to improve "intuativeness" is
with feedback from the users who are desiging ME&P systems. We need specific
feedback on what you consider to be intuitive and not-intuitive. I would be
more than happy to discuss your perceptions of Revit Systems with your
(again, this apply's to anyone williing to reply either to the news groups
or to me) perceptions of what works and what doen't work are important.
Please let us know if you would like someone from the product development
team to contact you.
tia
jason
wrote in message news:5247287@discussion.autodesk.com...
AU is by far the best source and value for education and mixing with other
revit users that there is available. If anyone out there hasn't gone to AU
before, do it, it is the best bang for the buck. That said, it is still
over 4 months before AU.
I've heard before, not to order the first release of an Autodesk product,
but I figured since Revit is so much better than other Autodesk products,
this would be different, but ya live and learn.
Autodesk and especially our retailers who have had the product for months
should have had people and materials ready to train those purchasing the
first release BEFORE it was released.
I'm not saying I haven't learned some of the product and can see there is
value in it, I am just saying that I've talked management into this purchase
and I can't honestly say that I could use it on my next project and have it
be profitable.
When I came back from AU a couple of years ago, I was totally sold on Revit
Building and purchased it within a week of returning. I did use it on my
very next project and did it faster and better than I could have using Arch
Desktop (which I was teaching at the time). I don't feel the same about
Revit Building Systems. To me It's not as intuitive as Revit Building.
It's like Autodesk was more involved in it's development than the Factory.
I honestly feel that my retailer has dropped the ball on pushing a product
that they aren't prepared to support.
There, now I feel better. Still don't feel comfortable with Revit Systems,
but at least I feel better that maybe someone for Autodesk, retailers or the
Factory has heard a concern.
