First, you have personal preferences, and as they say in Spain, "There is no written rules over taste"
Second, what can you achieve, just put in your mind that the two of them are part of the tools in our trade, and if you're an architect, the most important thing to know is how to architect !!!
Third, as a program, ArchiCAD have adopted the highly specialised tool for the profession, where it excels in the architectural field, leaving other specialities for their highly specialised programs dedicated to BIM for MEP, or for structure.
Autodesk on the other hand is trying to recreate its previous success of AutoCAD with Revit, putting Architectural, Structural and MEP design in the same platform.
Fourth, depending on offices and firms internal structure, one platform could suit best broad needs than the other, for example, lets imagine that the firms workers are divided in 4 categories, 1 for architecture, 1 for MEP and 1 for structural design, and finally 1 for modelors, in case of ArchiCAD, you can not float any workers to support the others, unless they share knowledge with the available platform .... but in case of Revit, all teams can float if needed, since all know the same platform (float here is used of the context that you can rush one speciality to help another even when s/he have no idea outside their area of profession or expertise).
As an advise, continue with your university curriculum with ArchiCAD for the time being, since that:
1. It's free or already paid for, so use it.
2. If the day comes where you have to learn Revit, then many of the concepts that you have already learn will serve you to learn Revit much quicker.
Second, what can you achieve, just put in your mind that the two of them are part of the tools in our trade, and if you're an architect, the most important thing to know is how to architect !!!
Third, as a program, ArchiCAD have adopted the highly specialised tool for the profession, where it excels in the architectural field, leaving other specialities for their highly specialised programs dedicated to BIM for MEP, or for structure.
Autodesk on the other hand is trying to recreate its previous success of AutoCAD with Revit, putting Architectural, Structural and MEP design in the same platform.
Fourth, depending on offices and firms internal structure, one platform could suit best broad needs than the other, for example, lets imagine that the firms workers are divided in 4 categories, 1 for architecture, 1 for MEP and 1 for structural design, and finally 1 for modelors, in case of ArchiCAD, you can not float any workers to support the others, unless they share knowledge with the available platform .... but in case of Revit, all teams can float if needed, since all know the same platform (float here is used of the context that you can rush one speciality to help another even when s/he have no idea outside their area of profession or expertise).
As an advise, continue with your university curriculum with ArchiCAD for the time being, since that:
1. It's free or already paid for, so use it.
2. If the day comes where you have to learn Revit, then many of the concepts that you have already learn will serve you to learn Revit much quicker.
@jl_lt
I meant is, that if the university is already offering the ArchiCAD course, then our friend must take advantage of it ... cause I don't know if that university is public or private, but you can consider that this specific course have been already paid for.
ie: not taking the course, is like wasting your money and easy credits (if applied).
Besides, I don't know if our friend's grade depends on it or not, so:
1. If grades do matter, then whether he likes it or not, he must learn ArchiCAD and pass the test/exam.
2. If grades do not matter, then talking from my own experience, starting to depend on a tool that you don't domain while you're studying can be quiet dangerous and can affect his/her grades in a negative way, specially when you don't have someone who you can run to and ask how to face your problems with the program, but since he already have a professor, an assitant, or who ever is giving him/her the course at hands then take the advantage (lets say, that in this particular case, I say let our friend play it safe)
Besides, everybody here, if we have learnt to use Revit, it was by tutorials and videos, so I don't think you may do it differently.
I meant is, that if the university is already offering the ArchiCAD course, then our friend must take advantage of it ... cause I don't know if that university is public or private, but you can consider that this specific course have been already paid for.
ie: not taking the course, is like wasting your money and easy credits (if applied).
Besides, I don't know if our friend's grade depends on it or not, so:
1. If grades do matter, then whether he likes it or not, he must learn ArchiCAD and pass the test/exam.
2. If grades do not matter, then talking from my own experience, starting to depend on a tool that you don't domain while you're studying can be quiet dangerous and can affect his/her grades in a negative way, specially when you don't have someone who you can run to and ask how to face your problems with the program, but since he already have a professor, an assitant, or who ever is giving him/her the course at hands then take the advantage (lets say, that in this particular case, I say let our friend play it safe)
Besides, everybody here, if we have learnt to use Revit, it was by tutorials and videos, so I don't think you may do it differently.
@Mjules
Let get this straight ...
1. If you have observed everybody's response, you will see that most of us have responded based on, whether we like ArchiCAD as our choice of preference, or our not so convenient experience with other BIM platform ...
I on the other hand, knowing do little about our friends situation, have based my response on:
a. ArchiCAD being an integral part of our's friend curriculum.
b. Direct help from an expert availability.
Just make this exercise, take my response and instead of ArchiCAD, called program X ... you will see that the advice will still be valid.
2. Graphisoft have created a template and a library that is convenient for almost everybody ... or in layman's term, the most general of most general of cases, that is why the library will not suit anybody's needs perfectly.
3. Although this is not the thread that we should discuss this, but I will give you a glimps, if I understand correctly the type of inter-connectivity that you which to achieve in the context you try to apply, then Rhino+Grasshopper is your destination.
Let get this straight ...
1. If you have observed everybody's response, you will see that most of us have responded based on, whether we like ArchiCAD as our choice of preference, or our not so convenient experience with other BIM platform ...
I on the other hand, knowing do little about our friends situation, have based my response on:
a. ArchiCAD being an integral part of our's friend curriculum.
b. Direct help from an expert availability.
Just make this exercise, take my response and instead of ArchiCAD, called program X ... you will see that the advice will still be valid.
2. Graphisoft have created a template and a library that is convenient for almost everybody ... or in layman's term, the most general of most general of cases, that is why the library will not suit anybody's needs perfectly.
3. Although this is not the thread that we should discuss this, but I will give you a glimps, if I understand correctly the type of inter-connectivity that you which to achieve in the context you try to apply, then Rhino+Grasshopper is your destination.
2) Even if you COULD get the software to do this, all of those extrusions are going to create a model with so many (useless) faces that the model would be dreadfully slow to work with. All of those faces do not add any information that is important to the contractor.
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