A great product for complete building design
September 05, 2025

A great product for complete building design

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Revit

Revit is the main program our firm uses in our day to day work activities. It is utilized to create design options, renderings, and final construction documents for clients. We have used Revit to create drawings for projects as small as 100sf to projects that house manufacturing and lab uses and are a collaborative effort with outside firms.

Pros

  • Modeling 3D building components
  • Creating components in a central model space allowing for the creation of views without needing to redraw elements.
  • Creating detailed construction drawings

Cons

  • Revit tables can be hard to use for beginners
  • Complicated wall joins (where the walls meeting are different heights or at an angle) often break or are displayed incorrectly
  • The split face function for applying materials to specific areas often needs to be redone if a wall moves even slightly
  • Some BIM360 lower folder permissions do not always work for every person assigned to a folder.
  • The "component" feature can be clunky when creating custom components that include angles and curves.
  • Revit's BIM360 collaborative cloud has allowed for real time updates from consultants and creating a more streamlined collaboration between firms.
  • Revit's 3D modeling allows for our firm to provide rendering services to clients as well as being able to provide them with marketing material made in house.
Revit has many great features that allows for the complete modeling and documenting of a building's design. It has tools for the creation and customization of all architectural elements from floors to ceilings to walls to curtain wall systems. It also has the tools for the inclusion of structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design all in one model where conflicts can be caught early and design changes can be reacted to by all disciplines. Revit's complexity can also be an issue as many elements can cause conflicts and visual problems whose cause is not immediately obvious. Also, Revit has many filters and the ability to show or conceal elements in specific views allowing for plans of the same elements to communicate different information, however this function can cause elements to completely disappear for unknown reasons which can be frustrating.
Revit is specifically for the design and documentation of buildings. As Revit's predecessor, AutoCAD has similar functionality for creating construction documents but Revit has the advantage of speed and simultaneously creating a 3D model when drawing walls, rooms, and floors which allows for the creation of 3D views and sections later with less effort.

SketchUp can also be used for designing buildings but Revit allows for more specificity earlier in the process as opposed to SketchUp's general massing.

Do you think Revit delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Revit's feature set?

Yes

Did Revit live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Revit go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Revit again?

Yes

Revit is very well suited to creating designs and construction documents for standard buildings. Buildings that need to utilize phasing in their construction process are also well suited to this software.

Revit is not as well suited to buildings that have irregular shapes or components that need to be highly detailed.

Revit Feature Ratings

5.3
Plan distribution & viewing
6
Document sharing
5
As-built drawings
5
Estimating ()
Not Rated
Human Resource Management ()
Not Rated
Payroll Management ()
Not Rated
Asset Management ()
Not Rated
Reporting & Analytics ()
Not Rated

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