I know these forums may be a bit slanted towards Revit but I would also hope some of you have made the change and/or can supply some true feedback.
How does revit handle detailing?
How is it for people that have NEVER drawn anything in 3D?
How is it to set up custom objects?
How does it work when issuing a construction set?
And........
This is a copy of the post I made over at CGarchitect.com, they pointed me towards you:
In the overall wisdom of our firm "the powers that be", that of course really know nothing about nothing, have decided to entertain the idea of switching from autocad 2004 to Revit.
A little background about our firm.
3 offices across the country, nearly 200 employees, in house architect, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, theatrical rigging, and visualization.
Our "bread and butter" is hospitals, however we do work on historic sturctures, historic theaters, and new theaters / performing arts centers.
I am looking for information so during our whole office introduction to the software packing to have knowledgable questions about the product.
So how does this package perform in the real world?
Does it really allow 1 file to contain an entire project, Architecture, MEP, sections, elevations, plans, and etc and really allow everyone to be working in that file at the same time in real time?
What happens if the network crashes?
How does it perform on a LARGE scale project, IE one of our current projects a 500,000 square foot hospital addition/remodel.
How is the transition from using autocad to it?
Is it friendly to go between autocad and viz?
How file format friendly is it, while we do have alot of inhouse consultants there are alot we get out of house.
How does it perform on a really crummy network, although we have very new equipment our network is continuously going from fast to slow to no access to the server to full access to not being able to get to another office's server, and etc in the matter of seconds/minutes/days sometimes.
And of course any other opinions you have on the product.
Thanks in advance,