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gotphish001
en respuesta a: Anonymous

I can agree from a school level type of project stand point Revit seems 1000x better and easier than autocad. In a school project for a building you are drawing probably 2-5% of what is actually needed (drawing wise) to actually build that building in real life. Once you get a job drawing EVERY part of something that needs built you will see that a whole new set of complications come to the surface trying to draw it with Revit. Problems and complications come with any software. That is also why there is different software because it's for different things. I can draw a building using Microsoft paint for free so why pay for autocad or other software. Because Paint isn't made for that, just like Revit isn't really made to draw 2D and autocad is so you can't really compare them.

 

Judging how good a software is by what it can do on a school level project compared to a real life project isn't a good a good comparison either. Example: Right now I have a very little project I'm working on. It's a municipality garage. It has 1 garage door, 2 regular doors and a single person bathroom. It's just a rectangle building with a few alternatives for bids. Pretty simple right? If this was an assignment in school it would be 2 sheets maybe, 3 if your professor was good and made you do extra parts. Because in real life so many more dots and T's need to be crossed off, I think my drawings are up to like 13 pages. Yes that is insane for what the building is, but that is the nature of the business. Sure I can draw 4 walls, a bathroom, throw in some fixtures and doors in Revit in 5 minutes and have a nice fancy model of that garage, but no one can actually build anything from that. There's much more too it and that's where you will see the same types of frustrations that you have with autocad in a program like Revit  when you get into the finer details. 

 

Plus if you want to see overly complicated you haven't seen anything yet until you try and use autocad architecture. haha You can do anything you can in Revit with it and somethings better, but a lot of things IMO could be simplified to be more user friendly. 

 

Autocad is every where because they had the best marketing ever back in the day. They gave the software to schools for free so that is what the schools taught. Companies used autocad because that's what the students new how to use.  It was genius and that is why autodesk has the biggest market share. IMO archicad is better than autocad or revit for buildings. You probably never even heard of archicad because they suck at advertising. I had professors that never heard of it when I was in school too.



Nick DiPietro
Cad Manager/Monkey