Hi.
I am an architect. I think dealing with Revit is much better than with AutoCAD right now.
Most architects use AutoCAD for 2D drawings, not for 3D modeling.
AutoCAD is poor at dealing with 3D stuff.
Then why use AutoCAD?
The reason is that architects need a software to make "2D drawings".
So, this is also a reason why architects need separate 3D modeling softwares like Rhino, Sketchup for other purposes like 3D study and visualization.
But things have changed after introduction of Revit into the architectural industry.
With Revit, many different tasks are processed in this one application as follows; (streamlining workflow
)
- 3D modeling
- Generation of 2D drawings automatically coordinated with the 3D model
- Engineering analysis
- Visualization
With this technological advance, the industry is moving forward to using Revit instead of obsolete AutoCAD.
Recently Indigo Renderer made a Revit plug-in.
I think this is a very appealing introduction of a GPU-based renderer into the Revit based workflow.
But the performance of Indigo is not great at this time.
I hope to see OctaneRender working with Revit.