Just got the okay to upgrade to Revit MEP Suite 2008....

[StykFacE]

....and boy does it look hard. :lol:

already printed out over 150 pages of tutorials from Autodesk to get the hang of things. Looks like i'll be getting into the world of B.I.M. which is awesome. I hope we can add Revit MEP as a new forum on here in the near future, as long as I teach myself this stuff soon enough. :lol:

[Noahma]

nice... gratz

we decided to stick with ACA for the time being, since Revit Architecture is 5k per seat lol

[pennylove]

What does BIM stand for? I had a class yesterday (first of the semester) that said that we are going to learn a little bit about revit towards the end of the semester. I guess they said that contractors can use it for take-offs and estimates, plus construction sequence simulations?? One person said that they used it at a company they interned with over the summer, and they had problems because revit said that there were only 75 doors, and their take off said 100, and that they guess the arch missed labling some doors (never heard of an arch doing that before!! LOL).

It was also suggested that we download the free student version of revit MEP for our project in MEP class this semester. Anyways, was wondering other people's take on Revit???

[StykFacE]

BIM stands for Building Information Modeling. It's basically the future of all construction design.

Yes, Revit/MEP calculates a full Bill Of Material, Scheduling, even can calculate engineering designwork for my end of work, which is Mechanical HVAC.

[RobDraw]

Styke,

We too are going the way of BIM. We will be switching to AutoCAD MEP 2008 with Revit in the near future. BIM is still a ways off but we will jump on board as the companies we work for start using it. We are an engineering consulting firm that designs building systems. I'm extremely excited about it. It seems like it will be easier as long as you start thinking about drawing a system with devices instead of lines and arcs and blocks.