Hello Ronald,
I participated in the AutoDesk pilot program code named: "Spark." This is what has become Revit LT. I downloaded the program, then for several weeks learned about it and was able to ask questions on the AutoDesk programmers forum, with answers provided by the AutoDesk programmers working on that software. While they were very helpful and informative and while I did create some example work with their guidance, I wouldn't call this software intuitive or much like AutoCad, if you are coming from that frame of reference, like me. The way Spark (Revit LT) handles dimensioning, is I think, what all Cad and 3D/Bim softwares should be. Super intelligent and easy to understand. My guess is that this is the same inference for full Revit. Navigation is excellent. There are many other things, though, that are downright confusing, like trying to set up a drawing sheet and things like drawing sheet numbering: there is some required back and forth procedures that are baffling, for such a mundane task. Still confuses me. You have to carefully write down, step by step, how to do things, and keep these instructions in your own 3-ring binder, in order to keep track of how to do things.
While I did like some things, others left me wondering how I would ever learn everything I needed to, in order to become proficient in this program And while it wouldn't do animations, it did a modest form of rendering, just not of the quality you can (I have heard) with full Revit. But hey: I am no 3D/BIM guru; just an architect, trying to learn about such things as best I can on my own.
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Rand Soellner AIA
Architect/Owner/Principal
Home Architects
Cashiers NC
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-10-2012 11:15
From: Ronald Peters
Subject: REVIT light
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Can anyone tell me if they have experience with revit light?
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Ronald Peters AIA
President
HistoricStreetscapes PLLC
Mesa AZ
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