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autodesk have sold me REVIT like the future of BIM....
"architectural desktop" will be disappeared...

i work exporting dxf but i wish have a direct exportation of REVIT's materials to MR!

Before another release of SKETCH UP plug in, PLEASEEEE a little plug for REVIT!

please not another plug before ALL other stuff is working and all promised features are done.
cheers
sorry
stefan

lllab wrote:please not another plug before ALL other stuff is working and all promised features are done.
cheers
sorry
stefan

Yes, with exception.....
We really need a revit plug in!

guardingolopez wrote:autodesk have sold me REVIT like the future of BIM....
"architectural desktop" will be disappeared...

i work exporting dxf but i wish have a direct exportation of REVIT's materials to MR!

Before another release of SKETCH UP plug in, PLEASEEEE a little plug for REVIT!

There is no way Revit will replace ADT... This has nothing to do with choosing Revit anyway, I am a Revit user, I like it very much, I think it is a great app but I can read more than 50 posts in wishlist asking for improvements. So, it is not THE SOFTWARE...
I have been asking for this for a long time... Now, I don't think it is a big priority because.....

1. Even if we get a plugin for Revit, it will solve nothing since we won't have the millions of models for viz/max.

2. Things like plants and people wouldn't be translated anyway. Also, Revit's 3d library is poor and ugly.

3. Modeling capabilities of Revit are not even close to viz/max or other 3d apps so there is no way we can make decent furniture or cars or... in Revit.

4. Revit's direct cooperation with AutoCAD, would make AutoCAD plugin more useful especially now that you can buy Revit series. AutoCAD 2007 has many more 3d capabilities.Even so, the huge amount of free models and 3rd party collections for Max and the fact that 3ds format is now history, makes the ".max" import feature very important.

JTB,

Revit is not intended to compete with Max as a modeler, this does not mean that it is any less relevant for Architectural Viz. You would not put cars or people or plants in your model because it is a BIM model for the purpose of creating documents to build a building. To have a way to render a section perspective of your BIM model would be very useful, even if does not reach the real of SFX work.

The bigger problem is that the API for Revit is very unfriendly and Autodesk is not very cooperative at all. So if NL is to do a Revit plugin it would be taking lots of resources away to do a product that does not bring so much obvious beneffit. Out of Revit you can already export into Studio in some ways, so it is probably why a Revit plugin is some time off.

In the meantime, we get more SketchUp plugin updates because SketchUp is very easy to interface with and Google is good about letting developers into the code.

Cheers,

dyarza wrote:JTB,

Revit is not intended to compete with Max as a modeler, this does not mean that it is any less relevant for Architectural Viz.

I agree but there is a big distanse between MAX and almost no modeling capabilities. I believe that when we are talking about such expensive software, companies should include a full set of needed tools... what Autodesk is doing now, making someone pay 10000€ just to start the work and learn the software for 4-5 months ..... (software pir***)

You would not put cars or people or plants in your model because it is a BIM model for the purpose of creating documents to build a building.

I don't agree... BIM capabilities are irrelevant to the presentation of a building, they are two totally different things and they are both basic needs of a user. So, why do we need accurender for? Shaded model would do OK...

The bigger problem is that the API for Revit is very unfriendly and Autodesk is not very cooperative at all. So if NL is to do a Revit plugin it would be taking lots of resources away to do a product that does not bring so much obvious beneffit.

So, why not an AutoCAD plugin? I can think of hundrends of small companies that create all their products to work inside AutoCAD... Why not Maxwell too?

Out of Revit you can already export into Studio in some ways, so it is probably why a Revit plugin is some time off.

Ok, so a Revit user must be either very rich or very stupid to buy Revit... If I want to do my work with some quality I need Revit for building modeling, AutoCAD for drafting, VIZ/MAX for rendering, etc. Adding the learning hours for all these, you can understand what I mean...

In the meantime, we get more SketchUp plugin updates because SketchUp is very easy to interface with and Google is good about letting developers into the code.

Maybe but Sketchup is not what most people need

Anyway, as I said before, I like Revit very much and the wishlist you read from the Augi forums is writen from hundreds of users, it is not mine... so not all of us are wrong!

JTB,

I am not saying one product is better than the other, I am just stating why a SketchUp plugin is so quick to create and a Revit one is unlikely to happen any time soon. It has nothing to do with how useful it is to people, it is a function of how feasible it is to program.

An AutoCAD plugin should be doable. I see no reason why there could not be one.

SORRY! i have tried sketchup, is a great software to use with revit.

don't stop the sketchup plugins updates.....

i use revit alot and it works great with maxwell. just dwg link the file in max. when the revit file is updated and re-exproted to dwg so is the max file with out the loss of maps or additional geometry. and now with the new max plugin its even better (barring the few bugs)

Robert Cervellione wrote:i use revit alot and it works great with maxwell. just dwg link the file in max. when the revit file is updated and re-exproted to dwg so is the max file with out the loss of maps or additional geometry. and now with the new max plugin its even better (barring the few bugs)

Nobody sais that we can't work with Revit and Maxwell... You 've just said that you have invested almost 10000 € just to render with Maxwell (Revit +Max+Maxwell)
Autodesk is offering Revit series now, so a plugin for AutoCAD would be more useful than before. A plugin for Revit is not so easy as said before and with all the problems I mentioned (modeling, libraries, import/export weakness) NL is right not to think it as a top priority. But, Autocad? Why?
Maybe we should blame Autodesk for this...