Designing with revit

[carlosb.101393]

I work for a residential firm doing hi-end residential projects, before revit (1 year ago) we have had a very good estimate for our time to be spend on each phase of the project, since we started using revit the time we spend on schemathic design phase and Design development increased a lot, but our construction documentation went down a lot too, I think that now we use more 3d on our presentations for our clients, and they understand better the projects now they get more involved with more understandable information and we can work faster with revit and provide more information in less time, better decisions are made also in earlier stages regarding coordination with structural, electrical and HVAC, is this true for most of you out there too? what are your experiences?

[Scott D Davis]

Here's some good info to answer your questions. The time vs effort graph does change in Revit, and is shown graphically in the attached image. Although I have found that general overall project time is somewhat shorter.

http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisw...0909bp_bim.cfm

Hope that helps!

[carlosb.101393]

Thanks Scott, good info in there, I was hoping also to get some feed back from general Revit users too.

[SCShell]

Thanks Scott, good info in there, I was hoping also to get some feed back from general Revit users too.

Hey there,
Put me down too then. Pretty much the same thing here.
Good luck
Steve

[Steve Jager]

Same here, we are experiencing more front end time and less at CD's