Small office, Thinking about using Revit

[richelleharp]

I run a small drafting service, am ready to upgrade from ADT 3.3 please sell me on Revit. The independent drafters I will be using are running vanilla ACAD. Possible? Also will be including rendering to services. Any input?

[bclarch]

Plenty of threads on this subject already. Try doing a search and reading the threads that pop up. If you are still left with some unanswered questions please feel free to re-post with more specific requests.

[richelleharp]

Thanks much,will do.

[Wagurto]

I provide a drafting services here in south Florida most of my clients are small architectural offices who relay on the drafting service that I provide. They don't care what program I use to deliver the plans as long as they are good to get a building permit and ti be built. It was up to me to do the change from AutoCAD and ADT to Revit. I found out that I can do a better job faster and more accurate with less errors than before. I am more productive now, I have more fun working and finally, I am making more money end of the story.

[Chad Smith]

I made the move from ADT 3.0, and haven't looked back. Things are so much better over in Revit land.

[Scott_Bloss]

Once you go to Revit you will never go back! At least I didn't and have no desire to....

[Wes Macaulay]

I run a small drafting service, am ready to upgrade from ADT 3.3 please sell me on Revit. The independent drafters I will be using are running vanilla ACAD. Possible? Also will be including rendering to services. Any input?

• No more property sets to worry about.
• You can really create sections and elevations from the plans.
• Detailing really uses the building model as a background.
• Scheduling doesn't require a Ph.D
• You're on 3.3, but even on 2005 getting the setup right takes six months. You can do it before lunchtime in Revit
• Revit is fun and makes you feel like a human being

Revit ain't perfect (we still want stuff from the developers) but from what I can see, having looked at everything else under the sun, it's as good as it gets. Revit has been a mature product since R5 in my opinion. So basically, you're late.