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Kerry Thompson · March 9th, 2004

I have not seen ADT 5 yet but I understand that some of the Revit concepts are now appearing in ADT 5. My feeling is that Revit has not sold enough over the last twelve months - First of all we had Revit as the new direction of AutoDesk Architectural apps in the new world of Building Information Modeling – (BIM) - then, later we had Revit being bundled with AutoCAD ??????! (How does this relate to the concept of BIM?) , and now we are seeing Revit concepts in ADT (especially in drawings management.) - does not bode well for the future of Revit.

Most users of ADT use it as AutoCAD and still "scratch" around drawing lines and circles - and will not commit time and effort to learning ADT let alone move from the AutoCAD platform to Revit. The AutoCAD process and concept is very entrenched in the conservative AEC industry. Comparing AutoCAD to an object based approach (ADT, ArchiCAD, Revit) is like comparing a feather quill to a word processor. Most users taught writing with a quill (AutoCAD) , would have a lot of difficulty using a word processor (ADT etc.), - the word processor being far more productive and flexible but may lack the artistic merits of the quill?

March 9th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Kerry Thompson Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: New Zealand Age: 53 Posts: 151 Name: Kerry Thompson	Revit I have not seen ADT 5 yet but I understand that some of the Revit concepts are now appearing in ADT 5. My feeling is that Revit has not sold enough over the last twelve months - First of all we had Revit as the new direction of AutoDesk Architectural apps in the new world of Building Information Modeling – (BIM) - then, later we had Revit being bundled with AutoCAD ??????! (How does this relate to the concept of BIM?) , and now we are seeing Revit concepts in ADT (especially in drawings management.) - does not bode well for the future of Revit. Most users of ADT use it as AutoCAD and still "scratch" around drawing lines and circles - and will not commit time and effort to learning ADT let alone move from the AutoCAD platform to Revit. The AutoCAD process and concept is very entrenched in the conservative AEC industry. Comparing AutoCAD to an object based approach (ADT, ArchiCAD, Revit) is like comparing a feather quill to a word processor. Most users taught writing with a quill (AutoCAD) , would have a lot of difficulty using a word processor (ADT etc.), - the word processor being far more productive and flexible but may lack the artistic merits of the quill?