Is Revit Building for me?

[darylmast]

My primary work is designing commercial and residential buildings so I am looking at Revit Building. However, I am involved in designing a feedmill so would like to be able to draw things like grain bins, augers and other equipment in 3D. Can that be done with Revit? Thanks!
Daryl

[Anonymous]

You can draw all your components (Families, in Revit terms) needed for your
designs in Revit. Some things, like an auger blade, are going to be tough
to model "perfectly" because its essentially a helical coil, which Revit
cannot do.....yet. If you already have a 3D DWG of the auger, you could
import it to Revit and use it inside of a Revit family.

wrote in message news:5423800@discussion.autodesk.com...
My primary work is designing commercial and residential buildings so I am
looking at Revit Building. However, I am involved in designing a feedmill
so would like to be able to draw things like grain bins, augers and other
equipment in 3D. Can that be done with Revit? Thanks!
Daryl

[Anonymous]

In addition to what Scott said you also need to understand just because you
can draw something in 3d does not mean you need to draw something in 3d.
Without knowing the exact requirement you may be able to use 2d
representations of some of the augers, equipment, etc... Only model what is
necessary to see in other views, is going to be rendered, or needs to have
interference checking run against it.


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Jeff Hanson
Autodesk - Technical Publications
Building Solutions Division
Manchester, NH
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wrote in message news:5423800@discussion.autodesk.com...
My primary work is designing commercial and residential buildings so I am
looking at Revit Building. However, I am involved in designing a feedmill
so would like to be able to draw things like grain bins, augers and other
equipment in 3D. Can that be done with Revit? Thanks!
Daryl