Revit for Architects
November 28, 2017

Revit for Architects

Nelson David Sanchez Villasmil | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Revit

Autodesk Revit is being used by the organization in the construction and project department. It addresses the problems related to quantities and takeoff. We are mainly a construction company, so we recreate the projects plans in great detail to get accurate quantities list that we link to an estimate to get the final budget for the construction projects. For any changes we change the model, which is easy to do, and it will automatically refresh all the final pricing related to the quantities.
  • Easy and friendly to architect, it is software developed specially for architects.
  • Creates very detailed quantities sheet, drawing plans and documentation and everything is linked to the 3d models, so there is no place to make a mistake. If you make a good model everything else will just work fine and detailed.
  • You can develop a entire project from the very beginning starting from scratch with a mass model to develop the design, and then you can take it a step further and add details like walls, windows, doors, roof, floors and materials to set it to a final project for construction.
  • You can also do high quality renderings and you can implement 3rd party renderers like Vray from ChaosGroup.
  • You can collaborate so you can have a complete office working on a same project with the worksharing features.
  • Really there is no missing functionality, but the internal rendering engine can be improved to match something similar like vray without the need to purchase Vray also.
  • There are some functions that make some confusion like the curtain walls always attached to another wall if they are in contact, but once you understand the software you will know that you need to disable the join feature so the curtain wall will not attach to near walls.
  • The parametric features and components that offers a lot of power and creative possibilities are difficult to use, will be great if it possible to make this easy to understand to most people.
  • revit has three big returns on investment - the first is that the office is much more productive, we can do with two architects the same job that with other methods required 5 or 8 architects
  • We avoid construction intersection and the quantities are so exact that we don't buy more than what we need.
  • We can accurately show client how the project is going to look like, and how much it will cost, much quicker than any other methods.
revit is an architecture designed software, previously (and some still do) architects and offices relied on the use of AutoCAD to create projects but that is a software for engineering \, and there is where revit has no other competitor. It has all the tools to make the architect's life easier - you don't need to manage Lines, you manage 3d real construction object with parameters i.e instead of drawing a line you draw a wall and you input the height as a value and there you are working with exact construction elements.
revit is well suited for every scenario, when you need speed and accuracy, because the most of the work relies on the 3d model which needs to be done once and can be done in collaboration if you like. You can collaborate on the cloud, and after you have the model completed, making the plans and elevations is just as easy as dragging and dropping to an also easy to create drawing sheet, so you can make a project of any scale at a glance.

Revit Feature Ratings

Plan distribution & viewing
10
Plan markups & sharing
10
Document sharing
10
Collaboration & approvals
10
As-built drawings
10
Mobile app
5