Revit Structure for house design

[autoMick]

Hi, I'm an Autocad and Civil3D user, but have never used Revit before.

I wish to do some detailed house design as a personal project and I have Revit Structure as part of my Infrastructure Design Suite (2014). I notice that Revit Structure has an "Architecture" tab and from what I can glean from various youtube videos is that it seems to have the more or less the same features as Revit Architecture. Is this correct?

Is there any reason that my version of the software wouldn't be able to do all the things that the Architecture version does for residential house design?

Thanks

- Mick

[Joe.Charpentier · Accepted solution]

You can create almost anything in Revit Structure that you can in Revit Architecture.

There should be no problem modeling your house using Revit Structure.

I would start with an Architectural or Residential template, which should have more of the content you need.  (You can always load it into the structure file, but it's easier to start with the template.)

You can find them on the seek website:http://seek.autodesk.com/category/locale/USRevitArch/Imperial+Templates?locale=en-us&resetft=true

For a simple comparison of features in each “vertical”, see here:

http://blogs.rand.com/architectural/2010/11/what-s-the-difference-between-revit-architecture-structu...

Joe

[autoMick]

Thanks Joe, good to know. You've also answered my next question which was going to be about templates!

Regards

- Mick