topic Re: Archicad besides with Revit in Collaboration with other software

Archicad besides with Revit

Mahmoud Qenawi — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:44:50 GMT

If I have to work using Archicad inside A wholly Revit work environment, is it possible? I mean can Open BIM approach help me penetrating any firm using Revit as a core BIM solution with one Archicad user till replacing Revit by delivering Archicad competitive advantages as an architectural or integrated design tool?

Re: Archicad besides with Revit

Scott Boyd Turner — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 12:02:21 GMT

Open BIM will not help in working in a Revit office as Revit does not work well with any other than native Revit (even has to be same version, preferably even point release).

Only real way to penetrate Revit office is to show how using Archicad can save the office $.. For large projects I find Archicad much faster than Revit,, updating and creating pdf’s for over 1800 doom sheets in Archicad is a simple publish and computer can run unattended for a couple of hours, same sheets out of Revit takes 2 person days

Re: Archicad besides with Revit

Professor Pickle — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 03:15:42 GMT

If a firm has invested in Revit then why would they change to something else? The cost is not just that of the software platform but also training and the lost productivity while operators learn to be efficient with the new software. Then there are libraries of objects, textures, colour palettes, etc. I think that this is a futile effort not worth pursuing at all.

Re: Archicad besides with Revit

Mahmoud Qenawi — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:39:19 GMT

Thank you all for sharing your opinions and I think I got into two facts:-

1 ) Either Archicad or Revit.

2 ) To win ( or beat revit ) I should provide 2 assets:-

• ) Save time by producing faster and more with doing less.

• ) Save money by a cheaper software.

Re: Archicad besides with Revit

Scraptrash — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:08:13 GMT

I’d say don’t even bother, unless you’re the boss.
Even if you are the boss, you would realize the time and cost aren’t the only things you would look at.
If you are not the boss, you basically were saying you would take up workload which were supposed to be shared among several revit users.

Re: Archicad besides with Revit

Mahmoud Qenawi — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:19:56 GMT

I didn’t know that Revit needs more efforts to accomplish the tasks needed, maybe I should use it to realize this defect.