AutoCAD and Revit have been both widely used for architects and architectural engineers. AutoCAD application can be used for 2D and 3D computer aided design and drafting. Its available since 1982 as a desktop application and developed a mobile version (AutoCAD 360) since 2010. AutoCAD has not only been used for architectural propose but for most of engineering use such as mechanical, Automobile design as well. On the other hand, Revit is majorly used just for architectural design. According to my personally experience, I have used both program by not much about other design programs, so I am going to mainly talk about these two programs and finish of with the compression with other programs.
AutoCAD vs. Revit
I did my co-op in capital project city of Philadelphia, during my internship, I was asked to use the AutoCAD for all of the city project which most of them were about building design, space reconfiguration, and furniture design. I found that AutoCAD is a very good 2-D plan design program in terms of precision drawing and professionary. Designer could easily adjust the room configuration and plan views by adding additional layers with out messing up the original drawings.
However, in my point of view,AutoCAD is stronger and relatively handier for drawing 2-D floor plans than 3-Ds, the designers could design different futures in different layers and this makes convenience to the contractors easy to figure out what their work it on the plan. Additionally, by applying multiple layers, the plans are very maneuverable, for example designers and contractors can easily shut down the unnecessary layer for the certain project. On the other hand, AutoCAD is very easy in terms of change the thickness of the interior and exterior walls.
However, drawing a 3-D view as well as the building interior cross-sectional view using AutoCAD would relatively require more work and skills from designers than Revit. In Revit, once the floor plans have been done, designers could just give the model a 3-D view by simply click the 3-D view tag in the view bar. In AutoCAD, 3-D view has to be done by dragging every single wall and make the connection between them.
Additionally, speaking the of the building modeling, Revit is also more convenient then AutoCAD. Revit has a good number of loadable, ready-to-use family members such as doors, windows, furniture and even electrical and pumping system whereas, in AutoCAD the design has to draw those future themselves and save them as a block if they still would like to use the same item later one. However, by using Revit, most of those items especially doors, windows and furnitures can just be added the plan by loading the certain family members. One thing they are in common in this feature is if the design would like to draw a specific member, the process and the amount of work is the same for both programs.
Revit and AutoCAD vs. other design programs
Finally, I am going to talk about the relationship between Revit and AutoCAD to other programs. According to my search, AutoCAD Architecture and ArchiCAD are also two of the very popular design program in architectural design filed. AutoCAD Architecture (ASA) is a version of Autodesk's flagship product with tools and functions specially suited to architectural work. It was initial released on 1998 and designed for Windows system. I have watched some video clips of designers using ASA to design floor plans, in my perspective, it sits between the AutoCAD and Revit, ASA has the ready-to-use family member like and the wall drawing option like Revit, but it also has the precision like AutoCAD. However, unlike Revist family members, designer could adjust the size of the family member by just input parameters into the proper parameter tags.
ArchiCAD is also an architectural BIM CAD software for macintosh and Windows developed by the Hungarian computer aided solutions for handling all common aspects of aesthetics and engineering during the whole design process. AchiCAD features some very similar aspects to Revit but much better in detailing the exterior and interior design such as materials detail, 3-D model. One very good feature I need to point for ArchiCAD, Revit, and ASA in common is, they are not allowed any structural inappropriate.
Comments for other group members:
1. For Hamad Al-Sulaiti: I really like how you introduced basic features of AutoCAD and Revit and you also introduced some of the discussion information which we have done during the class. I could see you also did a lot of searches for both programs. However, just one quick thing, the topic not only asked for AutoCAD and Revist but other similar programs as well, I understand that we normally just use these two software, but it would be nice if you could do same searches for other softwares. Here are two of them, AutoCAD Architecture and ArchiCAD, hope that could help you.
2. For Justin Hileman: Hey Justion, I really like how you did after your compression you came out with the conclusion to indicate the AutoCAD is related to Revit, which I should improve on my post. Just a quick thing, I think you could also point out other design programs such as ArchiCAD and AutoCAD Architecture.
Improvement After Reading Others Post
After reading other peoples post, I found one of the major downside of my post this time is I was concentrating on compare of the different programs. However, I did not come out with the conclusion of they actually related to each other. Unfortunately, I did not have time to re-write the post but if I could do it on my time I will add the conclusion on.
Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_Architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchiCAD
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