I believe when Revit users talk about putting building together in Revit
they mean actually modeling everything and not drawing. In my opinion ADT is
also moving in that direction. If you see last few versions 2004 to 06 lot
has been added in ADT to bring it closer to Revit. I am a long AutoCAD
(r9-14) and ADT (1-2006) user. I am just getting my feet wet with Revit 8.1.
What I see is ADT will come closer to Revit in model approach but it will be
little complex as ADT does everything on top of base AutoCAD. There will be
offices, users and project that will continue to use ADT because it is
based on AutoCAD. Others will move to Revit as they would like to use
different approach.
Just my thoughts....
"Turbo"
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Very good commentary. Thanks.
By the way, can you expand for me why one has to "know how a building goes
together" in Revit, but not in ADT? I have never understood what the heck
Revit people are talking about. Does Revit have some kind of built in code
that understands whatever they are talking about?
If they are talking about creating a wall on one sheet and a different wall
at the same place or an impossible joining condition to another wall or
condition, or changing a detail on one sheet, but not making the correction
all the way through the project sheets, I can understand that Revit is a one
file approach so that the change is more or less if not completely
automatic, but there are good and bad practices of draftsmen too, and Revit
is simply making it possible for more and more incompetent draftsmen to keep
their jobs. If that is what they are talking about.
I am like you. I am very uncomfortable using Revit, although I know that if
I use it every day for a month I will probably become comfortable. I don't
like it. I don't think I need to defend my feelings with a list of reasons
why. All that happens if I do that is I get back a list of why I am wrong,
but that doesn't change my basic dislike of the process of drawing in Revit.
I agree with you that Revit has been disruptive to the flow of making a
decision on product selection, but at the same time, I see that Revit, being
a different way of doing things, and starting fresh, provided ADT designers
with an ability to compare the two and see that they were able to stretch
ADT beyond where they believed it could go. The condition of ADT 2006 and
2007 is a light year beyond where we were with ADT 1.0. The fact is, I like
what I see in ADT now, and I am in wonder about where all of this will be in
5 or 10 years.
Thanks again. We, you and I have been here commenting since ADT first came
about. I liked ADT then, even though it was a nightmare sometimes. Now it
mostly works, and is even fun to use sometimes.
Jack Talsky