I’ve been working for a while for a 200+ size firm based in L.A., New York, London and Hong Kong. The US offices are all Revit based while the international offices use Archicad. The use of different platforms is due to a recent merger, between the US and international firms. Each firm obviously continued using its own software, which hasn’t been a problem yet, since all offices are still working on pre-merger projects. However, you can foresee that having multiple platforms across multiple offices will have its share of challenges once we start collaborating on projects over multiple offices. It’s a no brainer to eventually move to all offices to one BIM platform and being an avid Revit user myself I’m obviously biased and would side on implementing Revit throughout the whole firm. However, the offices in London and Hong Kong have their own compelling arguments to stay with Archicad. Everyone regardless of their job description (architects, BIM managers or technologist) use Archicad for design and documentation. We on the other hand, use Rhino/Grasshopper as a design tool for most projects but also for documentations of complex structures and Revit for general documentation. The use of Rhino for design and Revit for documentation is pretty much the standard workflow in most Revit based firms, due the lack of design tools in Revit and the huge limitation of modeling tools. While most firms including ourselves, have worked out a workflow between these different software, it would be ideal to also have design tools within Revit which will be extremely effective and efficient between the design and documentations team. This concept of a one-stop-design to documentation process is already the reality at the London and Hong Kong office with the use of Archicad.
Does anyone have any insight if Autodesk will ever develop tools (within Revit or in a separate package) that will be 100% dedicated to the design process of architecture? I’m not talking about FormIt that is still extremely limited and lightweight for most architectural design work, nor I’m I talking about Dynamo that looks promising, but still doesn’t has a tenth of the design and analysis tools like Grasshopper. As a matter of fact, apart from the countless case studies, labs, classes shown at AU where a large position of the work is done in Rhino, Autodesk recently launch an ad where the Autodesk Pavilion was fully design and documented in Rhino and Grasshopper while it supposed to be showcasing the use of Autodesk Architectural products like Revit and Dynamo. It comes a bit over like Apple who presents the newest updates of the App store at the WWDC, but shows during the presentation slides and clips of Google Play store to download apps, cause 99% of apps aren’t available in the App Store.
Autodesk already have experience in developing such tools like Fusion and Inventor that enables you to design everything you can imagine in an extremely efficient way and document and fabricate it all. In one package. These tools all have freeform nurbs modelling tools, solid modelling tools, mesh modeling tools, parametric modelling etc, but at the same token can knock out perfect drawings and schedule all parts at the same time. If Autodesk have proven to develop tools and the competition has already done in for architecture. What is keeping Autodesk form developing such tools?
Does anyone have any insight if Autodesk will ever develop tools (within Revit or in a separate package) that will be 100% dedicated to the design process of architecture? I’m not talking about FormIt that is still extremely limited and lightweight for most architectural design work, nor I’m I talking about Dynamo that looks promising, but still doesn’t has a tenth of the design and analysis tools like Grasshopper. As a matter of fact, apart from the countless case studies, labs, classes shown at AU where a large position of the work is done in Rhino, Autodesk recently launch an ad where the Autodesk Pavilion was fully design and documented in Rhino and Grasshopper while it supposed to be showcasing the use of Autodesk Architectural products like Revit and Dynamo. It comes a bit over like Apple who presents the newest updates of the App store at the WWDC, but shows during the presentation slides and clips of Google Play store to download apps, cause 99% of apps aren’t available in the App Store.
Autodesk already have experience in developing such tools like Fusion and Inventor that enables you to design everything you can imagine in an extremely efficient way and document and fabricate it all. In one package. These tools all have freeform nurbs modelling tools, solid modelling tools, mesh modeling tools, parametric modelling etc, but at the same token can knock out perfect drawings and schedule all parts at the same time. If Autodesk have proven to develop tools and the competition has already done in for architecture. What is keeping Autodesk form developing such tools?
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