- Sat May 25, 2019 4:56 am
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Good to know it was improved in this regard.
It was a pain in the neck to work with when I used to use it years ago ( back in 2011) largely for that reason (among many many more).
Also, interesting to hear about the origins.
I had always understood that it had its roots in Pro-E.
Perhaps it was just the developers and not the core or the program itself who had links to Pro-E.
And yes it feels much more like an engineering program than an Architectural design software.
Colleagues I know who still use it even confess they do almost no design (in the traditional sense) while working with it and mostly just use it as a documentation tool more than anything and most of their firms use a combination of Sketchup and Revit or Rhino and Revit, - depending on the type of projects they work on - with Revit only coming into the picture once the main design issues have been resolved in those other software.
LaszloNagy wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2019 1:58 am........
AFAIK, it was not re-purposed from Pro Engineer. It was developed by people who previously worked on Solidworks (and maybe Pro Engineer), but it is true, they were much more engineers than architects. And I agree that it really shows in how Revit looks and works.
About isometric vs. perspective: they have made a few improvements in that area so now you can move around in Perspective as well, and there are also several editing operations you can perform there. So it is no longer true that you can only work in Axonometric Views in Revit (it was true a few versions ago).
Good to know it was improved in this regard.
It was a pain in the neck to work with when I used to use it years ago ( back in 2011) largely for that reason (among many many more).
Also, interesting to hear about the origins.
I had always understood that it had its roots in Pro-E.
Perhaps it was just the developers and not the core or the program itself who had links to Pro-E.
And yes it feels much more like an engineering program than an Architectural design software.
Colleagues I know who still use it even confess they do almost no design (in the traditional sense) while working with it and mostly just use it as a documentation tool more than anything and most of their firms use a combination of Sketchup and Revit or Rhino and Revit, - depending on the type of projects they work on - with Revit only coming into the picture once the main design issues have been resolved in those other software.
