Questions regarding REVIT capabilities

[Anonymous]

This is a question directed more towards the professional users in REVIT, as well as any AutoDesk representatives familiar with the capabilities of REVIT.

I do not currently have the product or the license to use said product, however I am very familiar with Inventor and AutoCAD. I would first like to ask if Revit has any features regarding being able to assign a cost to a certain materials being added in the scope of work/project. Second, if it can, can you introduce an assembly from Inventor into a Revit project, and then assign a cost to every individual item in said assembly, a cost?

Alot of my work involves quoting huge amounts of racking systems, fire/sprinkler and fire prevention systems for existing buildings, so I want to see about streamlining this procedure of making quotes or getting final sums for a project. 

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

This is a question directed more towards the professional users in REVIT, as well as any AutoDesk representatives familiar with the capabilities of REVIT.

I do not currently have the product or the license to use said product, however I am very familiar with Inventor and AutoCAD. I would first like to ask if Revit has any features regarding being able to assign a cost to a certain materials being added in the scope of work/project.

Yes.  You can assign an unit cost to a Material, and use a Material take-off schedule to calculate the total cost based on the quantity.  It requires modeling elements precisely so that the calculated quantities (length, area, volume, etc..) are correct.

Second, if it can, can you introduce an assembly from Inventor into a Revit project, and then assign a cost to every individual item in said assembly, a cost?

You can import Inventor objects as ADSK or DWG in a Revit family, load the family in a project, and schedule it.  A cost parameter can be added to the schedule, either as an Instance parameter (every element can be assign with a cost), or as a Type parameter (each Family Type can be assigned with a cost).  This approach is more practical that assign cost by material.

Alot of my work involves quoting huge amounts of racking systems, fire/sprinkler and fire prevention systems for existing buildings, so I want to see about streamlining this procedure of making quotes or getting final sums for a project. 

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!

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