“Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Use Revit Building Information Modeling Software” is the second article I read. The article is about exactly what the title says. It gives you a breakdown of all the main reasons to choose Revit over any other BIM system. The main seven point in the article are as follows: 1)Preview the Future Home in 3D BIM Modeling, 2) Quick Changes to Design, No Repetitive Tasks, 3) Vast Library of Parametric Building Components, 4) High Quality Construction Document, 5) Accurate Estimation of Quantities and Cost, 6) Improved Coordination, 7) High Level of Flexibility. All of these are obviously very important to the industry. In particular this article tells about how future home owners can preview what their house looks like using Revit and they can change things easily and quickly if they don’t like it. Another very important thing that Revit does is it can give contractors and owner cost estimates based on the building design. This is a very important aspect because money makes everything happen. The coordination between different disciplines can be greatly improved using Revit’s simultaneous file updating system. Also Revit allows importation of many file types like DWG, PDF and JPEG’s. This shows the flexibility of the program and its user friendliness.
This second article is a good compliment to the first reading as it expands on some of the concepts mention in the assigned article. As far as "intelligent buildings" go, this article is more about "intelligent design". I think this article does a pretty good job convincing me to choose Revit over any other program.
I agree with Buzz in how the article we were assigned suggests that the Revit program is easiest to use. Speaking from experience, I agree that Revit is a very effective and easy program to learn. The second article Buzz suggested seems to be a good supplement article that compliments the assigned BIM reading.
ReplyDeleteBrian and I had the exact same opinion on the assigned reading. The article basically alludes to the fact that you should use all of the programs to get the most out of BIM, but this is just not possible. It would be far too expensive, and also it would take an immense amount of time to learn each one of these programs. The only way to do this would be to hire experienced designers in each program, but this would also be too expensive to do. One of the only things I fully understood about BIM before entering this class is also mentioned here. The fact that an owner can view his or her building in a 3D complete model before it is built is a great tool. It can prevent dissatisfaction or even expensive changes to design from the owner. This is true for homes, but is also true for office buildings, academic buildings, hospitals, etc. Another thing mentioned is how cost estimates can come right out of design models. This is a great tool for construction management firms because they can cut back on costs of hiring estimators since projects will already be partially estimated by the time they reach the construction manager.
ReplyDeleteThe features and capabilities listed above are not exclusive to Revit, but I agree that it is the easiest to learn and use because of the user interface. However, it is limited in some areas where other programs are more useful. For example, Bentley can support complex curved surfaces and larger project sizes. So the BIM choice depends on the needs of the project as well as ease of use.
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