Robot Vs.

[chad.corkern]

To Whom It May Concern, 

I have been looking at robot for some time as a potential replacement for the current structural modeling program we have. The interoperability between robot and revit/advance steel is much better than our current arrangement. The kickback that I get is that quote "It is not popular in the US". I'm wondering where and who uses Robot? How does it stack up against its competitors? Is that statement a true statement?

Thanks for any help. 

[rsousa_]

As you can see in this forum, all users are worried about the future of RSA, because it is not clear what Autodesk wants to do with RSA...

https://blogs.autodesk.com/revit/2019/04/12/robot-structural-analysis-public-roadmap/

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/learn-what-s-new-in-robot-structural-...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/upcoming-version-2020-2021-2022/m-p/8...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/save-our-rsa/td-p/7601162/page/12

In this forum, we all love RSA , so it is a hard question to reply. I think it is used worlwide (i'm an European user) but i would say (without any data to support it, just my feeling) that US is not a market with a lot of users. Maybe i'm wrong and some other users can say the opposite (with true knowledge). If i were you (I think you posted this topic to get our true feelings), at this point, I would search for better alternatives, such as Sofistik (extensions to interact with revit) or SAP. It's hard to invest years of our working life in a software and not know if it will continue to be developed (in the proper way...) ...

Regards

[Rafacascudo]

Correct . This is now our sad and uncertain reality

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@chad.corkern :

Have you looked into RISA? Apparently they have Revit interoperability. I'm just not sure how efficient it is. I have been using RSA for a while but it seems to be lacking many thing that RISA apparently covers. It (RISA) also is a convenient software for many North American users.