AutoCAD vs Revit - Modeling Times Comparison ⏱

AutoCAD vs Revit, the often asked question. Which is better? Let's look at just one of the many comparison points - modelling times.

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Translated titles:
AutoCAD vs Revit-Comparación de tiempos de modelado ⏱

AutoCAD vs Revit-Comparaison des temps de modélisation ⏱

AutoCAD vs Revit-Comparação de tempos de modelagem ⏱

AutoCAD vs Revit-Modelling Times Comparison ⏱

AutoCAD مقابل Revit-مقارنة أوقات عرض النماذج Times

AutoCAD与Revit-建模时间比较⏱

AutoCAD ਬਨਾਮ Revit-ਮਾਡਲਿੰਗ ਟਾਈਮਜ਼ ਤੁਲਨਾ ⏱

[VIA-studio]

Let's make a Revit vs Archicad video. That's a fair battle. You do the Revit parts, I do the Archicad parts.

[rickmock_noyade]

This reminds me of those late night infomercials that show the clumsy guy making a mess but there is this fancy new product you just can't live without. No one doing this level of work is going to start completely from scratch in AutoCAD. They have blocks, layers, templates ready to go when they start a job. The ability to set your own commands in AutoCAD is HUGE in saving time. I have used Revit very little and feel it is clunky to use. However it is a great program to create architecture drawings from. I can see the benefit of Revit as Inventor has great uses for mechanical drafting. However, I am not completely sold on using Revit, yet.

[charliejones]

I cant believe nobody has mentioned the fact that AutoCAD also has blocks and nobody draws everything from scratch!!

[joeytaft]

From my perspective as an electrical engineer, I think at the end of the day if you use one of the verticals built on top of AutoCAD such as Architectural, MEP or Electrical you will see while Revit may be faster at drawing walls, doors and windows than basic 2D AutoCAD, AutoCad MEP and Electrical may still be a better choice for engineers. AutoCAD verticals also enjoy a large ecosystem of compatible software when it comes to real world analysis for electrical engineering that use the same DWG and DXF file formats to exchange information. (I don't know of any electrical analysis software that can read in a native Revit file) As an example every electrical engineering project has a need for a Electrical Single Line Diagram, loop diagram or a ladder diagram, but Revit forces the engineer to step back in time while AutoCAD MEP and Electrical have made considerable progress in this area as well as many 3rd party developers. From my perspective Revit is reasonable fast if everything you need to do is contained within its rigid structure, but the moment you need flexibility it is no better than a 2D cad program. But if you need to maintain information throughout the whole design process your better off with a product like AutoCAD MEP or Electrical.

[joanham]

This might have been more compelling if it was AutoCAD Architecture vs Revit. That would be more apples to apples.

[GatesDesigns]

I've worked with AutoCAD most of my career and I chose Revit.

[CMgraffix]

don't forget most offices already have a template DWG with all layers and blocks like a Revit office,

[marmancor]

All i can say after using a lot of diferent dinamyc blocks in autocad, is that the time drawing in autocad can be lowered almost to half or less than its showed in this video, so its not so accurated the time comparison in the part of the floor plant at least...
When you learn how to combine the command wipeout with the blocks in autocad, its almost like you dont have to cut a line anymore.

[foolish]

It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.

[jessie_]

In my line of work as detailer for precast concrete elements, autocad is the clear winner. Period.

[JesseLee]

Not a 100% fair comparison.. the familys on revit were pre-made!!!

Though i think revit will still win, Make the blocks on autocad and start again for a fair comparison!

[thelittlemeisyou]

You are comparing the wrong software solutions. Of course you need longer using raw 2D AutoCAD - BUT luckyli there is an AutoCAD ARCHITECTURE version, using that same automatically generated walld/doors/windows, generating automatic elevations/sections etc. just as Revit does, handling 3D-Models, creating surprisingly high quality renderings. I've used ACAD successfully for years, and I am quite sure drawing that simple floor plan in AutoCAD Architecture won't take me that 16 min it took you in Revit...

[brucebright]

i just did and it makes a lot of sense in that perspective

[de-ludsupermarket]

You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!

[kevinl]

Cool, please do the same with electrical

[RichardChappell]

There's no question that Revit can be far more productive, but the AutoCAD side is going out of it's way to be less productive. The real benefit is not in the layout - with effective customization and block libraries, CAD is easily as fast as any BIM. The value is the different design process where the design becomes the model. With CAD, I'm documenting my design, so the design process takes place elsewhere - often only mentally. With BIM the documentation is a by-product of doing the design. The design data gets captured in the process, and you get a much richer set of data at the end.
Short version is that you wouldn't draft a layout in Revit, you perform the design.

[mamountazi]

man I missed this kind of tutorials lol. Great work here, thanks!!!

[alfymiami]

The comparison is not fair, in my opinion. The title of the video says "Modeling Times Comparison", but in the video you are using AutoCAD 2D vs Revit. To make a fair comparison of two "modeling" applications you should compare AutoCAD Architecture vs Revit.

[aminaelbekkali]

IT'S ALWAYS THE UNDERRATED VID THAT'S LEGIT! THANK YOU! <3

[newtechi]

I have used autocad, archicad and some revit for many years. And i do believe autocad its the fastest and more versatile. You should be able to make that floor plan at the same speed that in revit, even faster (in the video they spend a lot of time setting up the layers and selecting blocks to make the furnitures, but in reality you just copy blocks and layer settings from a previous file). The section is also tricky, you actually have to spend time setting up the heights of walls, levels, and windows, they don`t just come up they way you want like in this video. And they leave the most relevant part of the section out of the video: Making the roof structure. When it comes to simple stuff, 3d is better. But you loose eventually more time figuring out a way to make some window thats not in the list of objects, the roof structure, or fixing some corner that is not connecting the right way.