Experience with Revit Architecture

According to my personal experience, Revit is far more sophisticated design tool compared to AutoCAD. It has the ability to show multiple”views” on a single screen, which I feel is very advantageous to the designers. Working on any one view reflects the change in the other views simultaneously. For example, if you have a section and elevation view open together, any object drawn on the section view appears in the elevation simultaneously. Looking at the 3D view of the model, one can easily identify errors in the design and can modify the design easily per required. This option of generating instantaneous 3D view is not available in AutoCAD. Working in a 3D view mode is very helpful for creating topography and site development. We can place trees in the 3D model directly by clicking at the desired point on the toposurface, without even referring to the sectional drawings. However, in such cases, if we decide to modify the topography, the position of trees remains as it is and they appear to be hanging in the air in the 3D view. To resolve this problem we need to delete and place the trees all over again. Revit also has a huge library of different building components that allows us to create the designs faster; whereas, in case of AutoCAD, we need to draw each and every object manually per the dimensions. Revit also has an ability to generate elevations, sections, schedule of quantities instantaneously, which is not possible using AutoCAD. The option of creating topography and placing other site components such as benches, pavement markings for parking, plantation etc. are very useful to understand how the project will exactly look like, after construction. We can also use actual photographs of building materials to produce renderings of perspective views.

Thus with my experience of using Revit, I believe Revit is capable and helpful in creating far more than just an ordinary CAD drawing. However, since it has a vast variety of functions, one may have to spend time on understanding the different functions so as to become proficient and find easy ways of designing in the shortest possible time.