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So back to the original question Vectorworks Vs Revit, they are both competent programs. Also helpful when the construction management company calls you says they are not clear what is happening in part of the building and you just use the clip cube and send them a 3d screenshot. We have an open office it's fun to listen to some of the senior people standing over the shoulders of juniors now as they spin the model around and cut live sections for them to look at and they go WOW! I didn't know you could even do that.

VECTORWORKS VS REVIT HOW TO

Fortunately there are a few younger and more open minded people in the office and I've been teaching them how to use VW as more of a BIM tool.

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I have co-workers who have used VW since the 90's and still draw section marker manually, use none of the plug-in tools for windows doors and stairs etc, yet they update to the latest release every year. Our office uses Revit and Vectorworks, although I use mostly VW.

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What I've found in my experience is that it is not which of the major BIM programs you use but the willingness of users to learn how to drive the program to it's full potential. I wish you could take the best of each program and mash it into a single super program. I started in AutoCAD and even taught it for a while but I left it behind years in ago in favour of BIM programs.

I've used a number of different CAD softwares over the years, started in AutoCAD (when it was DOS), used Architectural Desktop, Inventor, Rhino, Chief Architect, Vectorworks and tried a number of other programs like ArchiCAD.Īll the programs have things that they do really well and they all have their weaknesses and they all have things they do the same it is just a matter of where you find the tool and what buttons you have to push. Guess I don't have the right mix of left brain and right brain. Bottom line though is that the more I work with VW, the better I like it. VW definitely has a learning curve which I personally found more difficult than the other 3D programs I've been exposed to. An example - Section lines could be simple to control through classes and layers but the visibility is controlled through the OIP for the section viewport. With any program you have to discover the idiosyncrasies to become productive but in VW's case, some of the solutions are well hidden. Having just done my first real project, I found a lot of road blocks which made no sense. However, I have found a lot of things in VW are not intuitive at all. The timber framing part is much better in VW and I prefer the general paradigm of classes and layers. Cost is much better than Revit or Archicad. On some projects I incorporate timber framing which was always an issue in Revit. After a couple of years, the cost of Archicad was less than Revit and every year, this just got better. This coupled with some annoying things about Revit moved me to Archicad. Also, any plugins you might need are typically quite expensive. While I totally got the logic of Revit, the costs were just too much for my taste. I started with Revit just before Autocad went to a full subscription model.

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