Autocad 2006 takes a few from Revit

[Henry D]

Dynamic Input (DI) tooltip, Rollover highlighting, Dynamic Blocks. See attached newsletter describing new Autocad 2006 feature enhancements.

[aaronrumple]

Looks like AutoCAD is growing a family editor....

[Scott D Davis]

there are many autoCAD 2006 'teasers' out there recently, including Lynn Allen's Blog, Shaan Hurley's Blog, plus our own Richard Binning's Blog, and more:

http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2005/03/richard_binning.html

Hmmm...where are we gonna start seeing some Revit 8.0 teasers, and how come no one has a Revit Blog?

[J. Grouchy]

Revit could stand to get some of those Annotation features from ACAD...helck, even the ACAD r14 text editor was better than the current Revit text editor.

[J. Grouchy]

how come no one has a Revit Blog?

I sort of think AUGI and a Revit Blog would be redundant. Instead of many people writing in you'd see only one (or a select few)...not sure of the advantage unless it were a Revit 'bigwig' with lots of juicy info.

[Scott D Davis]

Revit 'bigwig' with lots of juicy info.That's why we need a Conant or Tamas or Tatlin or FK or Christie Landry or.....Blog.

[Joef]

It is unfortunate there is no Lynn Allen marketing equivalent for Revit. Hopefully the Revit marketing people are busy finding a new advertising agency. The Revit print ads have to be about the lamest I have ever seen.
Embarrassing is putting it mildly.

[Chad Smith]

... and how come no one has a Revit Blog?
I'd be happy to host a Revit blog. But of course I'd have to be getting that insider info to do this. ;)

[Scott D Davis]

It is unfortunate there is no Lynn Allen marketing equivalent for Revit. Hopefully the Revit marketing people are busy finding a new advertising agency. The Revit print ads have to be about the lamest I have ever seen.
Embarrassing is putting it mildly.
Joef!

Wow, thats a bit harsh, considering the marketing group is part of the Team at the Factory. I know several Revit 'Marketeers' personally, and know they are working very hard to spread the word, and make the advertisements as good as they can. I guess there are some new ones in the Wall Street Journal today???

Perhaps some 'constructive critism' rather than just a blanket statement? What would you like to see them do? What don't you like about the ads? What do you like? How, in your mind, could they improve? They marketing group reads these forums, too, so I'm sure they'd appreciate some constructive feedback, just as we do with the programmers.

Thanks for understanding! :-)

[Joef]

If the marketing group read this forum perhaps they might reply to the many inquiries about training that have been posted here over the past few weeks. Christie Landry said that she would respond to one inquiry when someone came back from vacation. That was in January.
The ad that I have seen shows two basketball players. I didn't even realize that it was about an architectural drafting program (let alone Revit) till I saw it several times. Perhaps there are new ads that I haven't seen that are better than this one. Why not speak to the common misconceptions about Revit. Show some CD's., some renderings. I'm sorry if I offended anyone from marketing.

Joe

[tarch]

It is unfortunate there is no Lynn Allen marketing equivalent for Revit. Hopefully the Revit marketing people are busy finding a new advertising agency. The Revit print ads have to be about the lamest I have ever seen.
Embarrassing is putting it mildly.
Actually she was in Toronto several times doing just that. Lately few days ago. Not that she said much about Revit but was a part of the team promoting it. see blog http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/

[Scott D Davis]

The ad that I have seen shows two basketball players.I liked that one! The short little basketball player was "other BIM's" (or something like that?) and the really tall basketball player, who was so tall that his head wasn't even in the picture, was Revit.

Stating the obvious, No Competition!



If the marketing group read this forum perhaps they might reply to the many inquiries about training that have been posted here over the past few weeks
Marketing and Training are two separate things.

Edit for more info:


Christie Landry said that she would respond to one inquiry when someone came back from vacation. That was in January.
Joef: Here's the post Christie said she'd get back to us on:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?p=64181#post64181

and here's the post she made good on her promise:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?p=78316#post78316

[JamesVan]

I liked that one! The short little basketball player was "other BIM's" (or something like that?) and the really tall basketball player, who was so tall that his head wasn't even in the picture, was Revit.

I've actually used this in a couple of presentations about Revit. Good for a few laughs.

Speaking of blogs, Jim Balding and I have been cooking up the idea of a new blog that would be different from the multitude of CAD management blogs. I wanted to create one that would feature commentary mostly about building information modeling and would be independent of any software platform. Not necessarily a pro-Revit site because neither of us work for Autodesk. All are welcome to preview our site and contribute feedback.

http://bimguru.blogspot.com

JV

[Joef]

Thanks for the reply Scott, I must have missed the reply from Christie Landry.
Anyway, about the ad. My reaction to the ad is don't just tell me show me. To say something is one thing, but who believes anything they read in an advertisement? I can say my brand of bubblegum will cure acne, but that doesn't mean much. Here you have a full page of a magazine and there isn't one thing that tells me what Revit is or what it does or what Building Information Modeling is. In the wilderness of Vancouver Island hardly anyone has heard of Revit. People here are using Vectorworks, and are not likely to have BIM in their vocabulary. BIM could be a database program or some kind of simulation. Who could tell from that ad that you can actually produce CD's with a program that does BIM? When I tell people who are in the business and who read all the magazines, that I use Revit and they tell me they have never heard of it, I figure something is amiss
I think Revit is a great program and has a great future, and I suppose I get frustrated by its obscurity.

Joe