How is Revit doing?

[Martin P]

Just read a pretty bleak review of Revit and Revit Series in AEC Magazines January/February issue which seemed to be quite down on Revit and its sales, is this true? anyone read different anywhere?
comments such as

"the product is not a complete modelling modelling system yet and Autodesks ADT has greater depth maturity and compatibitly"

"autodesk has recognised that Revit succuess is not going to be an overnight thing"

"an improving uptake of ADT among customers"

I (and my boss as from today) have also started to notice that where things like sketch up and RPC have ADT plug ins we dont seem to be getting any for Revit? he has started to get a bit twitchy about it.....I am sure all is well, but a nice positive article to show him would be good.

http://www.cadserver.co.uk/common/viewer/archive/2003/Dec/16/news1.phtm

[BomberAIA]

I have been using Acad since R2.6. I hate it. the more I use Revit, the more I love it. I will try to find the article and read it.

[aggockel50321]

Read the review. Judging by what he said, I'd say he's got no real cad experience in any of the products he's mentioned.

[PeterJ]

Judging by what he said, I'd say he's got no real cad experience in any of the products he's mentioned.

The online review appears to be an abridged version of one by Martyn Day in AEC Magazine, a UK publication. He is the magazine's editor and is a journalist not a CAD user, but I don't know the full details of his CV, he may been a CAD user previously. He is exposed to all the major players in the UK market, usually ahead of major releases so he is well placed to offer comparative criticism.

As far as plug-ins go it is not the fault of Autodesk if third-parties choose not to produce plug-ins for a product without an API. It is my view that in time there will be some form of API though it may only be open to those preferred partners that Autodesk wish to see develop specialist areas of the software. At that point there might be much more that Revit can do that the other's cant.

The only bleak message, from a UK perspective is that Martyn Day quotes 180 licenses sold to date. That's a very light uptake here and corporate users would be forgiven for going with something with a pool of trained users when making a software choice for obvious commercial reasons.

[Martin P]

True Pete, I hadnt really thought about the API thing, it just seemed odd that Revit has RPC content built in, but you cant add any cars (going by their website?)

I found the full review in the magazine to be a little bit downbeat about Revit, but there were some points well made too though. The 180 seats seems very low, we have 3 here, thats 1.6% of them :shock:

[Steve_Stafford]

One review does not a future make...and his review or comments aren't far fetched necessarily. Attempting an objective view of the cadd/AEC market can certainly leave one easily confused.

[LRaiz]

Martin Day was not given the data about latest Revit installed base in UK. Autodesk generally does not disclose this information. I have not seen the full article in the magazine so it is difficult for me to speculate. May be Martin is using data from previous years.

In regards to RPC3 - Revit will support it when Accurender toolkit with appropriate support is released by McNeel. Meanwhile RPC support is limited to RPC2.

- LR

[Martin P]

both those things are very re-assuring :)

[PeterJ]

Martin Day was not given the data about latest Revit installed base in UK. Autodesk generally does not disclose this information. I have not seen the full article in the magazine so it is difficult for me to speculate. May be Martin is using data from previous years.

I was certainly intrigued by his publishing that particular piece of information and wondered how such a commercially sensitive bit of data was making it's way into the public eye.