Jason Grant: Love Passionate Readers: SketchUp Love/Hate
I posted a topic last week on "One Thing In SketchUp That Is Not In Revit" I got a few responses and I wanted to specify one thing in response, I am a proponent of Revit and BIM, not SketchUp and would like to break the addition work and wasted time that a dual Revit/SketchUp process creates. Full city blocks being created in SketchUp for early visualization and then the question of why it cannot be used in Revit drives me nuts. It is the little things that hold back a user and gives them a reason not to do it all in Revit. That is what I was trying to convey, one of the little things that hurts the process. I have changed the opinion of many for why going all-in with Revit is a much better process, it is the last 5% that are the hardest. Revit is an awesome documentation tool but it is the presentation abilities that I have been passionate about recently and trying to push users to understand. What is the limit of Revit? We don't know if we don't push...
I got an awesome reply from Brendan that I had to share:
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I got an awesome reply from Brendan that I had to share:
Having worked in both Revit and Sketchup, the point made is valid.
However, as the title of the topic says, this is just ONE THING.
Sketchup is not capable of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and is not set up as a documentation tool.
Revit, when used correctly, should be a database for schedules and registers. At the very least, door and window schedules can be created based on the model information.
The Revit model, when done correctly, can also be loaded into estimating packages such as cost-X for cost programming and planning for construction.
Architectural sections and details can also be created once the model is created. In my experiences, this is difficult with Sketchup as the tool creates faces and not elements.
The benefits of rendering and fly-though presentation is, at best, an interesting sideline but not really what Revit is intended for and to pull it up and compare on this one point is not giving the software package its' due credit.
I feel that as an Architect AND a builder, BIM based software saves on the double handling of documentation in one software package and then having to redo in another to complete the task.
If all you want to do is create an image or a fly-through, then sketchup will handle the job. If you want what you have designed to be built, then do the full job in a dedicated software package capable of delivering, such as Revit.
Thanks Brendan and keep pushing the efficiencies of BIM!However, as the title of the topic says, this is just ONE THING.
Sketchup is not capable of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and is not set up as a documentation tool.
Revit, when used correctly, should be a database for schedules and registers. At the very least, door and window schedules can be created based on the model information.
The Revit model, when done correctly, can also be loaded into estimating packages such as cost-X for cost programming and planning for construction.
Architectural sections and details can also be created once the model is created. In my experiences, this is difficult with Sketchup as the tool creates faces and not elements.
The benefits of rendering and fly-though presentation is, at best, an interesting sideline but not really what Revit is intended for and to pull it up and compare on this one point is not giving the software package its' due credit.
I feel that as an Architect AND a builder, BIM based software saves on the double handling of documentation in one software package and then having to redo in another to complete the task.
If all you want to do is create an image or a fly-through, then sketchup will handle the job. If you want what you have designed to be built, then do the full job in a dedicated software package capable of delivering, such as Revit.
Click here to view the entire blog post.
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