THE PROBLEM
The last place I worked at was once a thriving design / build fixed. On some occasions, the brain trust of the Department of Architecture and Construction Department would collect their donuts and coffee and meet in the conference room to improve the quality of our construction drawings and to discuss how to improve it.
Our designs have had problems due to the normal standard pressure of a busy environment architectural work, the lack of information, conflicts,Coordination problems, abnormal CAD, etc.
Remember the days when companies were drawing drafts? It seems that no one checked several drawings, there is simply no schedule or budget. Now, we call this bidding process. And 'certainly makes the kids angry construction. We receive sensitive of our design work, but get touchy when it comes to money. Some people are so materialistic.
As a CAD manager, I would sit and take notes at these meetings in an attemptBalancing a cup of coffee, Diet Coke and two donuts on my knees. After about an hour and a half, all had their say. Even if I had a lot of notes, they were just notes on this subject. The problem was surprisingly simple, the designs were not coordinated.
Architectural Desktop
As a CAD manager, I was very impressed with this sadness. We have been with Architectural Desktop for all our work. We have used BIM as a tool to build a 3D model and extract all the 2DDrawings. Very cool, but it was hard to do, requires years of training from my years of building and breaking and training of new people. Some of the new people are very resistant to working in 3D and with tools that do not know. Some were actually subversive. I called these people flat-lander, because they wanted to experience the architecture in 2D. I think it was better she called, what I really wanted.
As difficult as it was, we were always goodResults. We live to create renderings on the fly, we knew what the building would know where the real design problems have been developed. We also have the money for our architectural standards from time to time. How does the problem occur?
Since the project closer to finishing, and detail resolution was fine, the Architectural Desktop is the most difficult and demanding. When crunch time came, would be subversive of the flat-landers blow up the project. Oncesplit into lines, which would be less experienced in coordinating an effort to create the illusion that the project was actually finished deconstructing created. When the inevitable change has come, the project even more degenerated CAD data.
Revit Architecture
Then came Revit. This program holds the promise of what should be to Architectural Desktop. Do not get me wrong, it was a big pain to implement, but I knew that if I could work to Architectural Desktopus, then I could implement Revit. The direction was not always favorable, provided that no training and no setup time for it to work, but do not provide a doubt and criticism. At least they have paid for the hardware and software required.
In Architectural Desktop, you had to invent systems to manage a complex project. In Revit, this has already been done. In Architectural Desktop, you had to invent complex CAD standards and programs in your system and then train usersand enforcement. With Revit, the standard out of the box worked for us. That was absolutely amazing. I can work in any office with Revit walk on a computer and just start. Imagine? I can not even begin to tell you what I have done over the last adaptation of CAD 20 years. I do not do anything except to create Revit families (their name for parametric block styles) shared parameters and project templates.
Architectural Desktop is rough, Revit is smooth.Architectural Desktop is brittle and breaks, Revit is strong and solid. Update Architectural Desktop is a process more weeks, breaking all the tons of current adaptation and rebuild it after buying some books, e-mail gurus, and find the hidden cache of secret insider information on what is really stupid is going on in the program. It does not take one, but at least three languages to make this work it properly. Then there are the retrainingUsers.
Revit update can be done during lunch without any training. I did not even look at the readme file.
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
BIM? I really do not acronym. I liked SBM (single model building). It did not seem to fit, however, Autodesk's marketing plan. No one asked me anyway. In fact, I believe that the mountains of information in any magazine today and every web page on the BIM mostly crap. All these experts, we can not say with RevitIt 'possible that the other thing. Not one of them. I'm not even sure what they are. Maybe one day we will see in the future.
But here, where BIM with Revit Architecture and rocks. You can not blow up the Revit model. This means that the geometry always coordinated. The reference tag and numbers can not be processed regardless of the model leaf. These tags are not fragile, they are firmly connected to the model and the times. I'm not sure you have setRevit project coordination and with great effort. So simple so most of our problems have gone from drawing. This is also proof of how intelligent software that can contribute to a better architect. Yes, I said, Revit will make you a better architect.
In our company, not the office joke Revit how to improve our efficiency. If we have someone in our department had to hire Architecture, Revit experience is our top priority. It 'started at the center of ourBy the time I left. The first thing he had won the hearts of the people on our results that we have the Revit design solution of the problems that we have not seen before. Our solutions have been from the beginning. In a design / build office building where the guys behind their backs, this is crucial.
RENDERING
Throughout the design process, you can use a camera and take a near-perfect performance. The rendering features are incredible and evenMaterials and compatible with 3DS Max Link, if you want to use it. The very simple mental ray Rendering dialog box to get amazing results quickly with minimum effort. All users can now Revit excellent illustrations with a few minutes of exercise. Not only you could have a high-quality rendering quickly, but now you can articulate a lot of rendered images in a project of your design to the customer. Revit will make you a better architect.
If I can helpVIZ rendering system, making the instrument in Architectural Desktop, filled two volumes and was more than a thousand pages, and master a large amount of time.
DESIGN paradigm
Between working in an elegant interface and rendering 3D stack of points of view that architects now have a new prime. You can easily see all the exposed surfaces in a building design - walls, floors, ceilings and roofs - in and out. For the first time we can see everythingbefore they become reality. Wow, you see the effects?
There is now no excuse for poor design or a design error. Most people do not know, but the majority of architects and designers do not really know exactly what will be the built-in design. Of course I have an idea, and some are much better than others, but it is a fundamental problem, especially if design costs are low and everything is in black and white and 2D. Once the design of some pipes, I created an MCEscher like a sculpture. My boss was amused, because he has taken, but that could have been a big problem.
Revit will make you a better architect, just because you get immediate feedback on your design. If you see the object, how it is, then you will optimize and correct. It would be absurd not to. It will not be able to sleep knowing that the errors in the design. I think what we can flat-lander like to think that will appear on their 2D drawings and black and white, perfect andwell done, because it suits their fancy. 3D and color information is too much for them.
Without 3D architectural design is like writing a letter on a computer without a monitor. Probably the most right. You probably are not able to change. You can redo a couple of times. It would not be a good feedback from a monitor?
I find it interesting how big businesses are leading the transition to BIM as the tools and collision detectionMoney savings in preventing errors of construction and identification of design flaws. Some business owners are using their in-house guys Revit model 2D design, the architects of our own design errors documented catch. Follow the money.
It should not be leading the architect? I believe that architects do not know with Revit is not improving. Nothing is known about the coordination features, rendering capabilities, and details about his instruments. You do not knowcompletely replace AutoCAD. You can use the 3D drawing will cost time to think, instead of saving time. I did not know everything when I started using Revit, and I had to figure it out alone.
Architects to listen again and again how BIM is benefiting everyone but them. They could also benefit from knowing that, and hold it for a load.
Unfortunately, we all know the architects using AutoCAD 14 and say: "If it was good enough for Frank Lloyd Wright used when designingthe pyramids, then it is good enough for me. "These guys are usually very fast and not a very specific type of work. It is losing market share very slow to develop carpal tunnel syndrome and one day to find the company is no longer a need for their services. Seen a good ink on parchment drawing hands lately? How about with the letters printed mylar, pin registration, Leroy character sets, pens or manager?
CAD only really going on, when Bob Villa was an architect with a systemon "old house". The hardware was a Silicon Graphics workstation costs about $ 80, 000 and was not a realistic option at the time, but it creates a perception of the public with the answer. Extensive CAD was not the end of a lot of design studios.
Frank Lloyd Wright worked in 3D and in color.
SKETCHUP
SketchUp has become very popular recently with the architects. These architects are smart enough to know the value of the color and 3D. And 'their flow of work that I do nothow. Most companies also use AutoCAD with SketchUp. So, in essence, a working group on designing with SketchUp, another group working on construction documents with AutoCAD. (More later to AutoCAD.) Very little or no reuse of data between the two groups. It also seems that it would be very difficult, the interior and the exterior of a building in SketchUp model. Photorealistic rendering in SketchUp, you need an add-on renderers. Still using SketchUp, you give your customersDrawings, you can say, and this is a great step in the right direction. SketchUp can make plans now?
REVIT WORKFLOW
In Revit, you can start modeling with walls, doors and windows, or you can use his impressive size modeling tools to extract the data volume and surface, and then insert the parametric walls, floors, roofs, etc. Anything can SketchUp, Revit can do better.
In Revit, you have come from a database and all drawings and schedules out of it. Theiris not necessary to draw an arbitrary line in the sand and say it is a draft document which is the design and construction. Both are further along in a perfect Zen. In fact, not to keep the architect designs the construction phase of the document? Keep most of it does during the construction phase. Revit is easy to do. This is a great opportunity to profit on the efficiency of the workflow against the SketchUp Revit / AutoCAD-basedWorkflow.
FLEXIBILITY '
One of the best features of Revit is not easy to recognize. We have the flexibility of the data. For example, in AutoCAD someone is planning a door. Assuming that a standard office, knowledge and some doors, explosions that has made! The program has no connection with the project. Later, when you remove a door from the floor, is still scheduled. It 'also still in the height of the wall. With plenty of changes over time, the entire port to programreconsidered for the problems of coordination.
Revit in the door contains the data object. If you remove a door, is the program and investigations, the sections associated with specific information, etc. All data can be alive. A change is occurring in a position in the model are automatically propagated throughout the drawings. Not only the designs are coordinated, but this is a level of flexibility that we did not have.
Flexibility makes several changesnot only possible but easy and fast, without the model. Well, if your customer to significantly reduce the budget, after the construction documents to go for the money, (working together in church), you can throw away and start over without the project must accommodate. The drawings are coordinated.
Theological implications
Thrown in the typical modern Sunday school classroom, the expression WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) If so, that our children have a greatStandard for their actions at the base. (One consequence of this is that they have a standard for judging the behavior of their parents.)
So what would Jesus do? I have no idea, really, but as a creator of reality, I think you do not use the God of the universe and 2D black and white. I could speculate endlessly, and a pair of bizarre heresy, but this much I know. At least that's the reality of at least three dimensions, the reality of the movement (in time), the realityColor, and sound (maybe even fifth Dolby surround-sound?). The more accurately represent the design to your client and yourself, the more you are the truth, and truth is to find a great standard. I'm pretty sure that Jesus would also tell a compelling story and deep on the building or its users.
Architecture to represent more accurately to your customers at this time in history a Revit model to 3ds Max Animation with V-Ray 2 would be used. 0-plug-in for aphoto-realistic high-definition Blu-ray player with surround sound on a 55 "Samsung LCD TV with James Earl Jones tells the story of how Tom Clancy wrote. A 12" 350 watt subwoofer Klipsch would also be useful.
Design documents
The design of the church is moving relatively slowly. And 'the collection of funds can take between preliminary design and construction documents, the years. Two and a half years after the implementation of Revit, we had our first set of construction documentscompleted.
I did not think that these drawings are all that special. We had a lot of problems not Revit. There was some reworking and engineering and construction value was too complicated. But at the end of the designs have been professional and appropriate.
A couple of weeks passed, and the construction manager told us that this is the best series of drawings that he has developed, it was. I was pretty surprised. The boys do the work in Revit were our best boys, but what I think, pleased theChief of these designs, it was perfectly coordinated. This is the message, Revit, made to the project.
Since the project went under construction, everything went smoothly. The foundation has been very complex, so we added an isometric drawing with the dimensions of the day of collection and that has set its data directly from the model. It lasted only a few hours. The type of cement has been washed away. The only problems with this project came from a pair of sub-contractors to make mistakeshave no connection with the drawings.
ARCHITECTURAL APATHY
I just do not understand why the whole world is in anticipation of the next version of Revit and schools are not crammed with people trying to do it packed. Revit books should be sold. This should be discussed on CNBC, and even the evening news. This is the most exciting thing to happen ever again in the professional practice of architecture. And it's really just the beginning of the revolution BIM.
After aThe article in Professional Builder, Warren Buffet has invested heavily in BIM, because he thinks that there is inefficiency and waste in American home construction and there to make money with BIM, to make it more efficient.
OUTSOURCING
I really do not understand the opposition by the American architect is not the possibility of diffusion jump champion and bring this new technology. The rest of the world are adopting Revit, and are using the current version. PerhapsWe think they're using DOS on an 80386 processor with 5 years of software?
Did some research on Google and you will see an incredible job done in South America, China and India. Since Revit does a better architect, will not be long until America is the architecture of outsourcing to foreign countries where they do not only much cheaper, but do it better.
Like it or not, outsourcing is here. How are the American architectreact?
INVESTMENT
It takes 10 years to become an architect. To design a building and then describe in detail drawings, building shared with the design, construction and building regulations and do so efficiently as to be satisfied to earn a living. This is quite an investment.
So, explain to me why you do not want a four-day class to go ahead and start a 3-day advanced course, a tool that will change your life, take to protect the mainYour career and make you a better architect, and bring you joy? Why can not you lose some initial productivity, as the transition to Revit, if productivity gains will be until the end of the first year, more than compensate for all of your hardware, software and training investments and give you a 25% increase the productivity gain?
People who resist BIM today and clung to CAD are exactly the same people who resisted CAD to grab the pencil. As CAD has maintained, radicallyenterprise architecture has changed the world. Many ancient societies out of business and new emerged to exploit the opportunity. See the opportunity?
Did you know that Revit taught in most high schools?
Apologies
I guess there are two really great excuses to the resistance. The first is "The economy is in ruins. I can not afford to invest in something. I do not know if it will ever return. Every building needs that the company was built. I willwait until the economy gets better. "The second is his excuse:" I have too much work to do. Do not have time to learn now. Maybe not as much? "Both excuses are fully functional, so that will never happen. Look at the bottom of the time you have, because the economy as a gift, in order to train for the day when you'll be busy.
Meanwhile, the architects have created a sense of vision and perspective, when the economy recovers, becomeslater. Customers go to BIM / Revit application and if you do not provide, you can not get the job. Currently almost all government projects require BIM. The largest architectural firms such as HOK and SOM are leaders in Revit. The world of design requires it, because the construction cost savings (often higher than the architect in charge) and if the architect is not implemented, they will.
AUTOCAD
I think I might be a book about why AutoCAD is just terrible for writingArchitecture. But I try to keep this positive and helpful.
So I'm looking for a job today and I read the ads out there for architectural work, and I see over and over again "need to know AutoCAD." Why? Is there anyone out there really are design plans with the help of lines on the wall? Door Locks? Really? I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous. I could never work there, because it would not be able to stop calling people stupid. I probably would not get the first telephone interview.I demand to know why. A chisel and a stone tablet are hardly efficient.
I have to do in AutoCAD 2001 to AutoCAD 14 for the use of a BIM project. It took a while '. I repeated the line from the movie The Money Pit, "two weeks", and 16 weeks later I have a beautiful project in AutoCAD 14 3D BIM did. My boss was not amused.
In 2001, Architectural Desktop, has won my heart and not for a second I regret, AutoCAD. Drawing lines with buildings is simply stupid. I'm sorry, but it isand if you do, she needed someone to tell you.
I have not manually moved to a height of over 10 years. I'm not sure I even like. Why do you want? Let the computer do it for you. And 'how to use a spreadsheet for accounting, but makes the calculations on a computer and entering data into cells. Yes, it's so stupid. Stop it!
SketchUp is used only to enable users of AutoCAD architecture.
AUTOCAD CULTURE
Sun is from AutoCADthe box with about 500 variables to set the worst possible choice. (Or at least it did, no I have not seen in 10 years). Setting these variables is worth a month's work. In AutoCAD, there are 15 different ways to do something. With great effort, you can find the best way and will be only mediocre. Then learn three languages (or more) and you can customize to make it a good thing. If you're a geek, you can become a guru. So you no longer need to draw,managed by the same train other people from the swamp.
I think I have 50 books AutoCAD. They were very expensive. I learned AutoLISP. I have 4 books on them. I saw Lynn Allen gave his famous speech AutoLisp in 45 minutes of life. As a geek, I found it strangely erotic. I trained people for a while working in AutoCAD Autodesk reseller. I like it better than plastic, lead on mylar with a rubber supply. But come on, is the new millennium, Snap out of it.
In AutoCADWorld gurus pay the money, control and safety of the workplace, write books and do not share their knowledge so quickly. My favorite is the commands are not documented, true Geek Stuff.
AutoCAD is very misleading, because there is no auto AutoCAD. All this just to draw the lines? I do not think so.
AUTODESK
Autodesk is a part of the blame for this, because they compete against themselves, with at least four different products for architecture, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT,Architectural Desktop (now AutoCAD Architecture and Revit. This is confusing. In the past, they have a lot of mixed messages. Which is better for what I do? What is the cheapest and the one that will help me meet women, and a new hard drive sports? And I have not even mentioned engineering studies and those that use competing products.
Autodesk has the right to do is try to check the fine architectural Revit (like herding cats). At first this bothered me, as I wasdedicated to Architectural Desktop. There are few things in life are as frustrating as changing CAD systems. When Frank Heitzman BIM established a program at Triton College and has written a book about Paul Aubin Revit, it was time for me to have a good look. Frank said the first class of Revit is a video game for the architects. At the end of my first lesson I had a sheet with plans, elevations, sections and drew a rendering of a small house. I was excited.
Autodesk said it is their futurewith Revit. Every year they come up with a new version. It 's always some exciting new features. It 'the most exciting day of the year for me. At the moment, I can get my hands, doing upgrades. I also like the membership system, it works well for Revit. There is no reason not to stay on it and ride the wave of new soft technology.
REVIT CULTURE
Oh my, that a world of difference. She's ready right out of the box. Autodesk has created many tutorials and whitePapers. The Internet is full of blogs and websites and families to share the knowledge. The sign up page you can see, many of the past in the classes for Autodesk University. YouTube has hundreds of video tutorials. The whole world is sending their job and it's great.
To make Revit, if it takes more than 15 minutes, a task for the first time, it is the wrong approach. Find the correct word and Google. The solution will be.
RevitNot all models single screw, there is a 3D/2D balance that you learn to see what others are doing.
My answer to those who have told me, "3D was a waste of time" and my other favorite "She will work in the field," I say this: "If it is too difficult to model in 3D in Revit, then it is also difficult to building. spoofed 2D drafting is a lie and a disservice to customers. "
In my 21 years, drawing on the computer, I have struggled to address theright approach for creating digital architecture. I think it's Revit. It 'just the beginning of a rapid change with the computer do more work. Vertical applications only makes sense.
SIMULATION
Although photo-realistic rendering is impressive, the next stage of simulation. If your interior rendering is not smooth, you can use the rendering of lighting in an artistic way to make more regular well. If you look in Revit, the lights and made photometricevil, do not solve the rendering, fix the lighting design and will be glad you took that first built it.
On one of our projects of interior designers has given me his material and color palette. I went to the website of the supplier of the material and to download the exact color and material samples and re-rendered interior spaces. The client and interior designer, saw the room exactly as he wanted to be.
On another project I set the landscape as a background for 3D drawingThe plants in the model for rendering. Instead of throwing at random from a rendering plant in an artistic way, was a simulation. If the drawing does not look good, the design solution is not to fix the artistic representation.
The number of things that can be simulated, is enormous. Sun and shadow studies, lighting, energy consumption, collision detection, the optimal rotation of the building, all types of material LEED construction logistics and staging. Use yourImagination.
CONCLUSION
There are a lot of information about the benefits of BIM for the rest of the AEC industry, I'm just facing the architects who design and construction drawings. Architects do not think that we, along with software like this. You have no idea that we fill the hours leading to hand and use the lines for the walls. He was an architect, building design and problems to solve, not a typist or boring loop lines as quickly as possible in hisrepeated nonsense.
My favorite part of being an architectural designer to see created for my drawings. This happens so rarely, and can take years. Work in Revit, I get that satisfaction on a daily basis. Imagine the joy you would bring your life. (If I work only a few)
If you are an architect, and you need to design buildings and architectural drawings, you should know that with proper training and experience is the best way to get Revitthis. The quality of the design is better, the renderings are amazing, the coordination is solid rock, is so efficient that in one year will be 25% faster and have paid for the learning curve, software and hardware. You need to be better, faster and less expensive, and you'll be a better architect.
Revit is a complete system. And 'the only tool you need to create renderings, construction drawings and construction documents. There are some other BIM tools, which are similarAnd Revit are quite good, but from what I've seen higher, Revit, has a larger market share, is the most compatible and has the greatest number of partners.
Architects, this is our moment in history, we benefit.
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