1. Ease of use
2. Ease of learning
3. Clean user interface
4. bi-directional parametrics.
5. DWG/DGN compatibilty im****t and ex****t
6. ODBC ex****t for 3rd party tools, such as the Green Building Studio for
energy calcs, and E-Specs for automated sopec writing
7. Very good renderings, walkthrough AVI's (Accurender built in)
8. One program does it all. No need to buy add-ons to build objects,
create stairs, do renderings, etc.
9. Don't need to learn a programming language (GDL in ArchiCAD)
10. No layers
11. Detailing is simple, and FUN!
12. Created more of an industry buzz in 5 years than ArchiCAD has in 25
years.
13. Very stable, no crashes, no endless 'bug fixes'
14. New full release with valuable new features and tools every year.
(5.0
in Dec 2002, 6.0 in Dec 2003, 7.0 expected Dec 2004)
15. The BEST customer sup****t team (Award Winning Sup****t Team! Just won
a
"Stevie" award, see Autodesk press release)
16. Subscription program guarantees sup****t and upgrades
17. Autodesk University
18. Autodesk capital is funding the developement of Revit (cant do much
better than the worlds largest)
19. The founders and inventors of Revit are available to answer questions
20. The Revit Development Team - user input is the number one factor in
the
development of new tools/features, they listen to the users
21. www.augi.com - forum based user sup****t group is perhaps the largest
source of info for Revit.
That should get you started....I could go on but i think you'll get it
from
that!
"Bill Hackenthorpe" <nycwjp2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I am building a case for my firm to adopt BIM technology.
>
> The two main contenders are Revit & ArchiCAD.
>
> Why have Revit users chosen it over ArchiCAD?
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
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