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I'm a Senior CAD Technician with 25yrs experience. Just caught the end of drawings boards, then onto AutoCAD and SketchUp. Realised I couldn't avoid the Revit tide any further and have recently been plugging away and slowly getting there. I see all the benefits but it's just so cumbersome at times that it makes creating the simplest of things a huge undertaking, at the moment at least.I was recently asked to join a small practice and agreed to on the condition that we started using Revit (which they have licences for) on all projects going forward. They've been using AutoCAD for a decade.
As a practice we're trying to work out if it's economic long term to use Revit on all projects (including domestic) once we're all fully trained and up to speed on Revit or whether sticking with AutoCAD would be better. We're prepared to take the financial hit in the short to medium term to allow us all the time to get fluent with Revit but, as always, it boils down to available fee and whether it will stretch far enough to build and utilise a Revit model in the future by a competent Revit user.
What I'd like to know is roughly how long it would take to create a usable (accurate and useful) Revit model for a particular example project (I can post up the CAD file) by someone who is well trained and competent with Revit. I'd simply like a rough idea of the number of days it would take to draw up the measured survey to create the existing set then the proposed set. We can then compare this with the time taken to run the project with just AutoCAD.
Any help from anyone would be very much appreciated.
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