Anyone familiar with Revit MEP & AutoCAD MEP

[papapepper]

What is the differences? Pros and cons? Between Autodesk MEP & Revit MEP 2012.

[bcoop]

What do you mean what are the differences? You're the lead CAD guy, you don't know?

Revit is endless as far as possibilities. And everyone in our industry is moving towards Revit. I have to assume that is due to Revit having more capabilities.


Revit demos are fucking crazy. A consultant I know sets up a station at trade shows, and just runs loops of Revit to show potential clients. It's kickass. He can show everything, how certain flows don't work, etc. He can zoom in to anything in the plan no matter how big, or small. He can zoom in to the fucking inside of a door lock for crying out loud. It's cool as shit, I think. I understand, though, there is a TON of front end work for Revit. CAD blocks don't work in Revit. You have to recreate them. But once they are there, they are there for good like with CAD.

[papapepper]

I've never messed with Revit until today just installed it. It's a whole new ball game seems like. I'm great with CAD though and got 4-5 years experience. My whole entire career I've been working with CAD. Only had one job and this is it.

Exactly like you've said though everyone is moving towards Revit and it really is badass I'm steady trying to learn. My first day screwing around with the program.

[Blakeski]

I am familiar with Auto CAD, but this new program I haven't heard of, what do you think of it so far?

[hunt4m3x]

We use Revit Arch here. some bad ass software.

[Ruffdaddy]

ProE/Creos is where it's at!!! Unless of course you work with layouts, which it sounds like you may.

[Avery'sDad]

Have fun typing "VV" all freaking day

[John -- '02 HAWK]

FWIW you can DL trials from autodesk.

Autocad is the old method of drafting where you essential dimension every line as you make it. While with Revit its more dynamic and can allow you easily plop down a general shape/floorplan and the dynamically dimension it on the fly and even after the fact.

I'm using it in my architecture classes and while it has few frustrating parts, once its learned its really much faster than autocad could ever be.

[Avery'sDad]

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