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  • October 4, 2013
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    Game on! I will take that challenge.

  • October 4, 2013
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    i am the referee here,…………………

  • October 4, 2013
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    nicolas miard

    I react on this post to comments made on the previous ArchiCAD vs Revit post.

    Even though I agree on the fact that regardless to the software chosen, it’s the power users who drive a BIM workflow, I can’t help but underline some features that make ArchiCAD’s ergonomics truly superior to Revit’s

    ArchiCAD is WAY MORE direct, you don’t have to enter specifics menus to draw the limits of a slab, a roof, or and new cotations to existing chains.

    I’ve been working with Revit 2012 for a year now (no choice when I got the job), after 4 years of ArchiCAD, and it’s really painful! I’m really tired with ergonomics….

    I wish I could test Revit 2014, but my boss doesn’t believe in upgrades…

      • October 4, 2013
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        nicolas miard

        I’ve read about the new subscription program, available alongside the simple purchase. I didn’t know that simple purchase would be abandoned after 2015. good to know.

        I’ll talk about this to my boss, I know she’ll be pissed :-P. I hope she’s planning to buy the upgrades, even once, and at least get Revit 2014 and get decent stairs functions/ components. the 2012’s is sooooo shitty.

        If not, well, I won’t spend another year on may iMac 2011/Parallels Desktop/Win7/Revit fucked up “workstation” (yes you read well…..we’re running Revit on MACS……and, wait for it,….we only got win7 64 bit this year!!!!)

        fudge it!

  • October 4, 2013
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    nicolas miard

    BTW, I’ve tried Allplan (2012) too, because some partners chose it (when I tried freelance work) and…..well….it’s even worse. I still don’t understand how the Nemetschek Group can still sell Allplan and Vectorwoks to architects when they have ArchiCAD…it’s almost a crime

  • October 4, 2013
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    Hi, I’m one of the BIM Equity guys from Denmark who did the videos, and I would like to make a few points.

    It’s true, that comparing Revit and ArchiCAD, can be like comparing apples and oranges, but a person or a firm must do this comparison, before they choose what BIM software to use.

    We’re talking to a lot of design architects, who don’t like BIM, because it’s not flexible enough for them to sketch in, they don’t have freedom to sculp, it doesn’t make beautiful drawings, and files quickly become heavy and the app gets slow. Perhaps this is more true for Revit than ArchiCAD, and we’d like to show this in an interesting way.

    The guy in the video operating Revit is a long time Revit user, and he’s – in my opinion – much more skilled at Revit than the average user. He’s also operating the ArchiCAD model, even though he has hardly ever used the program. The video of Revit and ArchiCAD is recorded on the same computer, and to make the speed test real, we have 50 stories with curved walls, doors, windows and lots of furniture.

    My only hope for these videos is that people realize that they have a choice, that there are several different BIM tools out there, and I hope they watch the videos with a sense of humor. – We had a lot of fun making them 🙂

      • October 10, 2013
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        It was a Windows laptop from Lenovo, and it was not a new machine. That’s all I know 🙂

  • October 8, 2013
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    Jim

    I used Archicad all through Arch school (graduated in ’05) then made the switch to Revit and never really looked back, I just liked Revit better (at the time) since then Archicad has grown by leaps and bounds, I really think Autodesk acquiring Revit was sort of a bad thing, I wish Google or someone else had, the growth has been marginal, but at the time I swear, Revit was better 🙂

    My two cents is that the first video is just goofy, you could fix the “skins” issue in like 2 seconds in Revit, or preset up the wall to work that way in first place, and for the windows, ummm “real” curved windows are super expensive and not really realistic anyhow, that was acutally something I think I disliked about Archicad, so I’m not sure why that’s an issue, but, you can make windows (families) real easily and without programming in Revit, so no biggie there either really (if you wanted curved glass that is). Yes though, making slanted walls in Revit is sort of a PITA, but it is fully possible, but Archicad may have Revit on that one in terms of ease, though I bet there are a lot of things you can do in Revit that are tricky in Archicad (maybe not though, it’s come a LONG way since I used it last) So I hope seandburke’s rival video reflects that.

    In any event, yes, apples and oranges. I seriously wish I knew Archicad as well as I knew Revit though, it seems like it might be good for some projects.

  • October 31, 2013
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    Hi guys. While you’re working with a reply to the second video, we’ve posted a third video here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj8PT8rE6Yw

    – This time it’s easier, so please show us how the workflow of sketching a facade is in Revit…

  • February 19, 2014
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    Juan Carlos Palomino Barrios

    Saludos desde Perú… que bien hallar que ArchiCAD va de la mano con la eficiencia y la vanguardia en el mundo BIM

  • April 7, 2015
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    Revit will be ‘subscription only’ but the bundles will still be able to kept in perpetuity — for now. Who knows that Autodesk will do in the future.

  • March 28, 2016
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    ivan

    have anybody tried vectorworks as bim
    and as landscape ???

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