Cost of update training? Cost of deployment? Long term projects which have decided to keep with a consistent version? Anyhow, it seems to be more common place. There are many reasons this might be happening. But what I would say is where once BIM managers wanted to roll the latest version of Revit out to their staff on projects, they are now taking a more pragmatic approach to deployment & often holding back for 12 months or even skipping a release.
In those early years, Revit went through a rapid release cycle, even after Autodesk purchased Revit in 2002 there were a vigorous number of point releases until things settled & Revit then went to a yearly release, which is what we now have. When John Mullan saw Revit, he could see the same potential at a fraction of the cost of Sonata. The fact that one seat was the price of a good quality family car was beside the point, it was a powerful solution. It was an expensive system, but it was one of the earliest parametric building modelling systems. Why did he consider Revit you may ask? Well John had implemented Rucaps Sonata in the office. Not only did it start to offer the office a quick building modelling system which was faster than CAD, it could be picked up or put down depending on the office’s needs. It was one of the reasons my then boss John Mullan, MD at House Henderson Architects was so interested in the product. Anyone remember that? Early adopters will.
#Autodesk revit architecture 2014 price software#
What I do find amusing is in the early days of Revit, the software was initially offered on a monthly rental option. That is compounded by the recent IFC4 announcement.Īnyway, back to the Revit history lesson. The reality is that as governments start to push the whole IFC / COBie delivery requirement, all AEC solutions need to start to respect the need for data to be sharable & of an open nature. Passionate users of both camps spend hours defending their beloved solutions on social media like it’s some sort of life or death affair. ArchiCAD community says Revit sucks at IFC the Revit community says who gives a stuff when it has the majority of the market share. It’s actually a really boring discussion now, what is more important is whether the tools can truly talk to one another, are open & interoperable. Some will argue that ArchiCAD is better, Revit is better, blah, blah, I’ve heard it all before. But Revit has developed into a mature solution which will deliver model based design & can be centroid to the BIM process, but it’s not BIM per say. Maybe not as long as that other BIM app which begins with “A”.
Revit 1.0 was released on the 5th of April 2000, so Revit has now been gracing our earth for 13 years. But before we get into the juicy bits, let’s pause for a second & review some Revit history. There is frenzy in the Revit community twitter goes into hyper drive & the bloggers go mad (including me), as Autodesk serve up the latest greatest version of Revit for us to use & abuse on our BIM projects. Oh yes, it’s that time again when the red carpet gets deployed.
0 kommentar(er)
