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You learned it the "easy" way. I had to learn to that the hard way: in Allplan. Which was totally alien to me at the time. So called "friendly" people told me the best way to switch from CAD to BIM would be Allplan, because it got both BIM and CAD capabilities. Like a universal wonder-tool. It even had layers, just like Autocad. It got architectural tools, and reinforcing tools for concrete elements, and topo commands, etc.

Piece of advice: DON'T listen to anybody on that! Always go your own way. What's good for others may not suit you AT ALL. 

Allplan seemed like a fairy tale at first. But it got such a complicated interface, with hundreds of layers, with hundreds of drawing files, with fixed numbering system. You really needed a map to surf an entire project scheme. Half the interface in english, the other half in german! That complicated system started to make sense to me only after an entire year, and after finishing 3 different projects.

You got "lucky". Sort of. Revit and Autocad are somewhat compatible in export-import. Allplan to Autocad is no good. Allplan to Revit is no good. Allplan, and Tekla, and other software keeps you "prisoner" in their own system.

Revit feels the most natural, even when it lacks obvious commands or options. Paradoxically, the lack of layers in Revit makes it more efficient. Layers are just a human construct. There are no layers in a building, at least not in the sense they are defined in Autocad.

 I just hope Revit developers will manage to refine (=to make usable) the CAD tools in Revit to the same level the CAD tools are in Allplan. Like seamless integration and interplay.

Another piece of advice: free yourself from the Autocad philosophy, break the chains, break the layers paradigm.

Layers are just like any ancient language: dead. There is no future for Autocad. Like there is no future for diesel engines.