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[Anonymous]

I saw some documents to compare between Revit and AC.
I study Revit from own website.
It is just copy from AC!!

I used to work with AC (and very satisfied, and like many friends from AC-forum).
As AC-user I hope, AC must be better than Revit for Architects.

I have not used Revit, but just seen from Website.
The web-site from Revit is so nice, that I must believe, Revit should be better than AC.

I like to know your opinions and also opinions from GS.

Thanks

[Scott Davis]

No, but I research the competition. Its my job to assure my company is using the best technology to produce our designs and construction documents. This means researching CAD, BIM, spec software, file management software, presentation software, etc. There is no way I could be an active user of all of these, so I have to rely on word-of-mouth, intervieing users, reading reports, reading newsgroups, going to user group meetings, attending conferences, etc.

[__archiben]

Thomas wrote:
Scott, with all due respect, I wonder what you're doing here.

WHAT?! just get back in your box will you? having scott here is a Good Thing since he's able to respond to our sometimes misguided impression of revit and take back a little of what he's learnt to the augi forums. probably in a similar way that some archicad users browse the augi forums.

for people who have an interest and investment in BIM software, exploring different options shows an intelligence way above that which your blind devotion is showing. i for one am quite happy for scott to run through and explain revit's featuers and functionality. open your mind, you may learn something.

[Thomas Holm]

~/archiben wrote:
WHAT?! just get back in your box will you? having scott here is a Good Thing since he's able to respond to our sometimes misguided impression of revit and take back a little of what he's learnt to the augi forums....

Ben, if you listen... I've checked back a little here. Not on Scott's posts on the augi forums, though... anybody's welcome to do the same: Click "profile" and then "find all posts by"... I guess you haven't done that on me, even if you should remember one or two things I've said in other places. But you're welcome! I sure don't fit my definition of a blind devotee...
And while my minuscule scrap of intelligence of course is way belittled by yours, might I humbly suggest that we exchange boxes for while, like some exchange their homes on vacation? I find it interesting to see how the world looks from the other side, despite my devotion...
To me, Scott's 'explanations' look an awful lot like marketing, especially when added together. Wether paid or unpaid is irrelevant - I don't think this is the place.

[Anonymous]

I agree with Thomas

This forum is first of all for AC-user.
Without such like forum it makes many trouble to do our work with CAD.
The exchange of inromation and skill is very important.
For this reason it is also for everybody important to protect and improve such like official forum.
I think it is very interesting point to compare between two programms (first without thingking to switch to one from another)
AC can take some advantages from Revit without losing his originallity.
It helps just us, AC-users.

[Scott Davis]

Thomas wrote:
To me, Scott's 'explanations' look an awful lot like marketing, especially when added together. Wether paid or unpaid is irrelevant - I don't think this is the place.

It's tough to discuss the positive aspects of any software in another competitor's forum without sounding like a marketing scheme.

[Eduardo Rolon]

With all due respect I disagree with Thomas and Samsung. Scott has been respectful in these forums and has clarified misconceptions about Revit and ADT and I don't think his intention is to "sell" Revit to anyone, nor has he gone into "my software is better than yours mode" on any of his posts I have read.
IMO we benefit from having someone that uses the other BIM software around. On another note he was not the one that started this thread also there is no requirement that you have to own AC to post in these forums

[Petros Ioannou]

To be honest i was at first very suspicious with Scott's posts but after all these time, I came to the conclusion that he is mostly browsing and explaining Revit features. If he wasn't here probably we would be blind and full of missconceptions regarding Revit. If you look at the computer history you will see that things were developed rapidly on those golden "silicon valley" days back in the 70's because people were sharing ideas....

My only complain with Scott is that he is not yet "infected" and turn into an ArchiCAD user... (yet!)


Petros

[Anonymous]

For this reason I said,
I am very interrested, what Scott will say next year, if Scott has chance to use AC so long time.

[Anonymous]

Scott wrote:

Thomas wrote:
To me, Scott's 'explanations' look an awful lot like marketing, especially when added together. Wether paid or unpaid is irrelevant - I don't think this is the place.

It's tough to discuss the positive aspects of any software in another competitor's forum without sounding like a marketing scheme.

Look what I found thru the SketchUp users forum:

Scott Davis
Revit Forum Moderator
www.augi.com

I wouldn't mind if he was just a curious Revit-ter with a lot of time on his hands to be already a junior member on AC Forum, but I wonder how much he gets paid for what he does on our forum.

In the name of honesty, Scott, please put your title as part of your user name.

Naftali

[Petros Ioannou]

Wow! Look at that!
Through him to the fire!! Now! I think he is a wizzard!

Cool it guys, AFAIK Scott never hidden his identity.
I cannot understand you...


Petros