ArchiCAD and Revit Evaluation Criteria

[Anonymous]

Greetings,

We're a mid-size architectural firm (50-75 people) located on the East Coast of the US specializing in commercial, educational, higher education, retail, and corporate markets. We've been using AutoCAD and ADT for quite some time now with SketchUp being used almost exclusively for all SD and DD imaging. We've come to the conclusion that these tools have out lived their usefulness.

We've started an evaluation process looking at both ArchiCAD and Revit. Our team (8 people) will be professionally trained by outside consultants so they can competently evaluating both tools.

We need suggestions on what type of information gets included in our evaluation criteria. Has anyone gone through this process with both programs? If so, can you give us any tips or directions on what we should be looking for? What are the current advantages and pitfalls to using either program?

Is ArchiCAD generally better than Revit?

Thanks I advance for any replies. We’ll keep everyone updated on our evaluation process.

mj2

[Laura Yanoviak]

metanoia wrote:
Can you model terrain out of the box in AC?

Yes -- with the mesh tool -- quite slick, actually. The mesh tool fulfills all of our needs in this area -- some firms doing intricate site work, may benefit from Architerra, but for us it is unnecessary.

Some miscellaneous ramblings:

We've only been using AC for 2 years, have "played" with a number of add-ons, but have not found any of them necessary.

So... how is Revit's out-of-the-box rendering capability: "complete package"? It's down-right humorous.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't believe Revit has anything comparable to SEO's (Solid Element Operations -- boolean operations)? This is a very powerful modeling feature of AC that I get more and more use out of every day.

You do not need to know GDL to create objects, but AC user's do have the power of GDL available to them -- to me, this more than compensates for the "ease" of creation of Families.

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