REVIT OR ADT?

Which would you buy as an architectural designer doing plans for permit,
mostly residential.?

Thanks.

 

What's wrong with vanilla AutoCAD?

 

Thank you for the reply Clinton. I have tried Chief and sent it back. I had
2 pages of defects I could not get around with it and I can draw my permit
packages in basic autocad faster than fixing all the problems with Chief.
I was about to buy ADT when one reseller told me about Revit. I have to talk
to 4 or 5 resellers to get the whole story. Most of them don't work with the
product and don't know what is going on.

 

The OPs question was a very simple (naive?) one, and contained what I
thought was an unnecessary limiting premise, hence my question.

I'm not shilling for anybody, just wondering why he framed the question the
way that he did. His premise seemed to imply some significant unsuitablility
of acad for the job. If that's the case, I'd like to hear why he thinks
that.

Since we're talking about reminiscences, the OPs question reminds me of a
barbaric dentist I saw when about 6 years old. He asked my what flavor of
gas I wanted as he leaned over me with the mask, "Chocolate or vanilla?". My
dad new me and had my arms pinned to the chair. I didn't want any gas. I
wanted out of that office.

Both questions strike me as equally flawed.

MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca

 

I was quoting *Clinton* only in my last post.

 

Adesk is currently pushing that product pretty hard. It makes me wonder if
their profit forecast for the annual upgrades to the flagship product tells
them that they have to switch ponies. Once acad became the de facto
'standard' cad app, they must have a few very good years. I wonder if there
has been a steady decline in upgrades over the last decade. Anecdotally, I
have noticed that in my business there is now a wider range of versions in
everyday use than I can ever remember before. I regularly see everything
from r14 to 2005. It used to be that *everyone* piled onto the new version
without flinching.

The problem with parametric modeling for me is the required upfront work for
an assembly. In cookie-cutter buildings this may be deemed an investment
that will pay off, but in unique buildings with a variety of situations I
wonder how much sense it makes. I'd bet many of us will still be drawing in
2d for quite some time to come.