Statistics - Australian Users?

[The Lonely Shepherd]

Hi All -

I work for a mid-sized Australian engineering consultancy who are currently going through the whole "should we/shouldn't we" process RE: the jump to Revit.
I'm hoping to get an idea via you forum users as to how many Australian users there are, what sized organisation you work for (approx.) and where your office is based?
I am not after detailed information, this is purely for me to present to our management as a case for the jump over to Revit.

Failing that, if there's anyone out there in CAD software sales who knows of any figures that would also be very much appreciated.

Any help I can get would be very welcome.

[m20roxxers]

I doubt sales figurers will help too much. Since many people have brought it since the upgrade from full version autocad is cheap to rev it suite and don't use it. I believe world wide sales aree around 450,000 and counting, but that is for all Revit platforms structure would represent a very small portion of that.

However I would base your case more around what it can do for rather then who is using it in the market place. All large companies have integrated or are in the process of doing so. As well as one man band engineers I've worked with who have incorporated they're drafting back to themselves instead of outsourcing.

I don't know if you've experienced the demand for it yet, but we've bid on projects that require Revit in order to be a consultant orn the job so having one user would be good. I'm happy to day quite a few Aussies including myself post in the structural section here.

I could tell you of the benefits but resellers can do that and online research. The real key is to make sure your management team support the change especially financially. This change will cost the company money. Make sure you put together some good research and go in-depth on what will be covered in advanced and customized training. If you deceide to not get training then it will be a tougher road and mostly likely will require s fair bit of outside work hours to get things going (minimum 100) to be happy as well as research. ,make sure management is willing to set aside time for you.

Otherwise good luck.

[benmay]

Depending where you are based, getting in touch with your local Revit User group would be the best first step. Here in Melbourne we have a great group of people from all fields and company sizes, and it really is a great way for new players to get some real inside information and see how the industry is going

On top of that resellers should be able to give you all the information you need (obviously with a sales pitch angle) if you combine this with local knowledge from a user group you should be able to make a good assessment and put together some information for management.

I believe it is now more of a case of who isnt using Revit, rather than who is.
Although once you look deeper there is a big range of usage levels and expertise. But you can bet all the big players are now either using it or implementing it, and I now see more and more smaller companies implementing Revit sucsessfully.

To answer your original question, I am Melbourne based in a firm of 100+ using Revit since late 2005

[anthony.s]

staff of a bout 40 in Perth - moving into Revit slowly.

Finding more and more Arch's using it and really just following the flow. So far we now have 3 guys proficient in it.

We had ad's out for months trying to find experienced Revit modelers with no success.

[The Lonely Shepherd]

Thankyou all so far for your input.....
Great idea about the user groups benmay.

Appreciate the input.

[kathy71046]

staff of a bout 40 in Perth - moving into Revit slowly.

Finding more and more Arch's using it and really just following the flow. So far we now have 3 guys proficient in it.

We had ad's out for months trying to find experienced Revit modelers with no success.

Interesting, I was looking for months with no sucess in finding anyone that wanted Revit except in Melbourne.

Place I was at before the "global economic crisis", 3 drafties, 1 Revit Structure, 1 Revit Architecture, 1 Acad.

My business upgraded from Acad to RS. (single seat)

New place I started at bought RSS (but moslty because I was proficient, not because that's what they wanted)

This spot is a new one where the company is bringing the drafting in-house, I expect my dept to get to around 8-10 within 2 years, but as we are a fabricator, not likely to get anymore seats, at least until we have a builder's ticket in house.

[anthony.s]

Katika, if you know any others that know revit and are structurally based PM me :)

Currently we have a job in the wings that if we do win it, it will require it to be fully detailed in Revit. Its part of the Gorgan projects, so size and time frames will be a issue, trying to service a job of that size is currently outside our current revit comparabilities.

[Jiale_feng]

I am Structural Engineer in Canada (P.Eng). In order to use Revit functionally, it require the Design Engineer and drafter are both well skillful in Revit. Most ppl out there are currently considering revit is a drafting software. It's a misunderstanding. Knowing revit can illustrate in 3D is not enough. The software contain 3 parts of function, first part is modeling(coordination), second part is document the model, and the third one is exchange model for calculation, such as to Etabs. It required the ppl in the team are all fully understanding both Revit and analysis software. Unfortunately, most the engineers do not understand revit at all and drafer do not understand analysis software. The bridge are broken. As a result, revit are only using for drafting. If you use revit for drafting, my suggestion is NO. CAD is best drafting software of the world, why we need to change that. As we always say that Do not trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
If your company are willing to change to RE, my suggestion is to train all the Engineers fundamentally understand Revit, knowing part of Revit wont do you any good. When first and third part of function have been solved, second part will fall into place naturally.

Best Regard,

Jackey