Cool uses for Revit other than AEC...

[Steve_Stafford]

I used it to decide which player played where and when, for my son's soccer team when he was ten. I wrote a blog post called Revit can Coach Soccer.

[jsteinhauer]

I was thinking last night I could do a family tree. I was thinking a plumbing engineer might use piping runs, and a Mechanical Engineer would use duct runs. I would imagine levels could be used for 10 year increments. Area of the pipe or duct could be the person's height. You could track genetic traits such as blood type, hair & eye color, height, hand dominance & diseases. I would love to hear any additional thoughts.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

p.s. this was after my roommate woke me up at 11:45 to drive her to her sister's house, because she (roommate) locked her keys in her car.

[CADastrophe]

I made Lego assembly instructions for some kids in Revit. I quickly modeled the Lego pieces (scaled up a bit) as Families and loaded them into a project with proper materials, then used Phasing to control the visibility of the step-by-step, piece-by-piece 3D visual instructions. Since I could rotate the 3D View to the best angle, very little annotation was necessary. Work out pretty well!

[garyible491083]

I used Revit to draw my model railroad track plans for my proposed 2 deck layout, the associated timber benchwork framing as well as the purpose build shed that the layout will be constructed in.
Great to see it in 3D and establish if it would all fit as intended and for finding errors and quickly fixing same.

Gary

[kmarquis]

This is a bit of stretch since it's still kind of a building but one year around the holidays the firm I was working for had a contest to try to get new Revit users interested in modeling. The contest was to model a gingerbread house in Revit. This was a lot of fun. I made M&M families for roofing, my wall sweeps were made of "frosting", I created trees and gingerbread people. I brought the Revit rendering into photoshop just to put people in to give it a scale. See attached photo. Fun times.

[rtaube]

I used it to show how Revit could be used in Archaeology, utilzing the power of a graphical database.

[jeffh]

I used it to create an image for a Tee Shirt design.

[SCShell]

Hey there,
I have used Revit for Logos, Stationary and business cards. I even re-designed my Harley with it by modeling the basic frame, fork and wheels so that I could "virtually chop" and increase the head tube's angle and have it accurately rotate around the rear axle in order to determine the front wheel's trail. (I wanted to maintain the factory trail to preserve the ride quality.)

Steven