Looking to make a switch from Autocad to Revit, does anyone have experience with Revit LT. This is mainly for residential and small commercial projects. The cost of LT is much less and a good starting point to get acquainted with the program before jumping in to a full version.
Revit LT will work for residential and small commercial (I started with it), but it does not allow plug-ins. Once I grew up, I had to switch to full Revit.
Yeah, but if you want to use Enscape, pyRevit, or other plug-ins you will have to upgrade. For example, our workflow includes Rhino, so the Rhino inside Revit plug-in is valuable, just like Enscape for our rendering, Specpoint for specs, etc...
I use LT professionally for side work. and the full version in the office. the main thing I find it lacks, other than plugins is the ability to model components in place, which I use a lot for quick SD work. But you find ways around it and can model similarly in the family editing functionality.
Autodesk's Revit has much baggage - try a 30 full-functioning trial version of Vectorworks 2025 - more advance than Revit at about half the cost with a minimal learning curve - this is the European industry standard BIM application vs. Revit for the USA - I have nothing against Autodesk and still do all my projects in AutoCAD ADT 3.3 ...
Also imports and exports .dwg files so it interfaces well with these files ...
Dec 12, 24 10:00 am ·
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OddArchitect
I wouldn't recommend doing this.
In typical architecture, Revit (and AutoCAD) are industry standards. You're going to have a lot of issues trying to work share and coordinate with your consultants when using another modeling software. Most firms using other modeling software still 'rework' things into Revit when it moves beyond SD.
Revit is a very complex program with a lot of features that most people don't fully use or understand. That being said, I wouldn't say it has 'baggage'.
On a side note; Vectorworks is not the industry standard in Europe. Like the US it's Revit or AutoCAD.
I've also seen people work in ArchiCAD - a very capable program. Not analysis function though. It's downfall was that Autodesk didn't buy it.
Dec 12, 24 12:02 pm ·
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pj_heavy
GDL object in Archicad is a real drawback. You don’t need to know a programming language to model a simple object, you just don’t. Love the overlay / trace option though , very intuitive and feel as if you are working with real tracing paper.
Downloaded Revit LT trial, right off the bat, feel like a guy who got off a horse and now trying to drive a tesla self driven car. I'm really hoping this is for the better.
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Revit vs Revit LT
Looking to make a switch from Autocad to Revit, does anyone have experience with Revit LT. This is mainly for residential and small commercial projects. The cost of LT is much less and a good starting point to get acquainted with the program before jumping in to a full version.
Revit LT will work for residential and small commercial (I started with it), but it does not allow plug-ins. Once I grew up, I had to switch to full Revit.
Thank you, but its fully functional, I can learn with it and ge a set of drawings together without issue?
Yeah, but if you want to use Enscape, pyRevit, or other plug-ins you will have to upgrade. For example, our workflow includes Rhino, so the Rhino inside Revit plug-in is valuable, just like Enscape for our rendering, Specpoint for specs, etc...
I use LT professionally for side work. and the full version in the office. the main thing I find it lacks, other than plugins is the ability to model components in place, which I use a lot for quick SD work. But you find ways around it and can model similarly in the family editing functionality.
IMO its a good deal for what you get.
Autodesk's Revit has much baggage - try a 30 full-functioning trial version of Vectorworks 2025 - more advance than Revit at about half the cost with a minimal learning curve - this is the European industry standard BIM application vs. Revit for the USA - I have nothing against Autodesk and still do all my projects in AutoCAD ADT 3.3 ...
https://www.vectorworks.net/en...
Also imports and exports .dwg files so it interfaces well with these files ...
I wouldn't recommend doing this.
In typical architecture, Revit (and AutoCAD) are industry standards. You're going to have a lot of issues trying to work share and coordinate with your consultants when using another modeling software. Most firms using other modeling software still 'rework' things into Revit when it moves beyond SD.
Revit is a very complex program with a lot of features that most people don't fully use or understand. That being said, I wouldn't say it has 'baggage'.
On a side note; Vectorworks is not the industry standard in Europe. Like the US it's Revit or AutoCAD.
Ah, surprised you did not recommend Archicad... Both Vector and Archi are the "but we have BIM at home" type softwares. Defiantly not as advanced.
Disagree on ArchiCAD. I worked at a firm that uses it for 6 years and it is just as capable as Revit (stairs and railings still suck though)
Josh, stairs and railings suck in every software.
I've also seen people work in ArchiCAD - a very capable program. Not analysis function though. It's downfall was that Autodesk didn't buy it.
GDL object in Archicad is a real drawback. You don’t need to know a programming language to model a simple object, you just don’t. Love the overlay / trace option though , very intuitive and feel as if you are working with real tracing paper.
Downloaded Revit LT trial, right off the bat, feel like a guy who got off a horse and now trying to drive a tesla self driven car. I'm really hoping this is for the better.
technically, a horse is self-driving.
technically horses aren't driven but ridden ...
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