BIM After Dark + Shoegnome
Join me Thursday night, March 9th, 2023 at 6pm PST / 9 pm EST on YouTube Live with Jeffrey A. Pinheiro on BIM After Dark. Jeff is a Revit expert. I’m an Archicad expert. It’s going to be a great hour long conversation. If you can’t join us live, don’t worry. The video will be available afterwards.
Jeff’s blog, The Revit Kid, is around the same age as Shoegnome. We’ve both been promoting BIM from our respective corners for a long time. And while we’ve had online conversations and commented on each other’s blogs throughout the years, this will be our first live conversation.
My hope is that this is the first of many conversations Jeff and I have about BIM. Our tools may be different, but our goals are the same: do good work, explore new and complex ways of design and production, and help other architects.
If you have time before watching the episode of BIM After Dark, check out my video on measuring a house with Archicad and also Jeff’s series on doing a kitchen renovation in Revit. In the first four episodes he covers the existing conditions, starting from a point cloud. Not only do our videos show the same task with different software, we also come at the process with different (and equally valid) mindsets. If you use Revit, Archicad, or some other BIM software, you’ll get a lot out of watching both.
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ArchiGreen
Can you comment about the economic policies on each program with pros and cons?
Jared Banks
I’m not sure exactly what you mean. Looking at only the cost of software over the long term (3-5 years or longer), Archicad is cheaper. Or it is as of early 2023 to the best of my knowledge.
Duncan
Great interview Jared. Good vibes all round. I’ve tried/still am learning both ArchiCAD and Revit. In the UK Revit is about 50% of the industry mainly because of the legacy of AutoCAD. Archicad is probably less than 5% of the industry but has been around for many more years and is or was typically found with the more experimental/ out there/ pushing the boundaries studios/companies that were forward thinking and realising AutoCAD is flawed! On the other hand the remaining 45% of the industry is still very much entrenched in AutoCAD and even a lot of Revit firms are still running AutoCAD for detailing. From a learning perspective, Revit and AutoCAD have a lot more accessible and easy to follow step by step information to get you up and running, ArchiCAD sorry to say, sucks at this, and for that very reason it is how I came across you, Bobrow and some famous ArchiCAD using Architect in Japan, via searching the internet. Its a shame, because Graphisoft are really shooting their selves in the foot! Revit is definitely not friendly to use, it is very restricting, it the way you want to do something. ArchiCAD on the other hand is more friendly to learn, but requires a lot of work around to get that last 5% of precision or exactness with something. To be honest neither software is perfect, buy Graphisoft are more human to deal with and have a much fairer marketing strategy. AutoDesk on the other hand are just pure corporate scum! I’m fluent in AutoCAD, but I equally turn out the same wares in Sketchup, believe it or not. But I will leave AutoCAD behind and replace the skills with ArchiCAD and Revit too, because very few firms in the UK use ArchiCAD. Its sad but its true. Graphisoft really need to up their game in the UK. They are being slaughtered by AutoDesk massive marketing budgets, but ultimately clunkier and increasingly more expensive software, because their is little alternative. This journey began with Revit in 2013! I ditched Revit end of 2018 because it was too expensive for annual subscription. The LT version is useless. ArchiCAD I knew about from version 8, but between then and version 18, I had an affair with Sketchup Pro until Trimble ruined it! ArchiCAD is or was the more approachable and cooperative software, more diverse, but its sadly poorly marketed. Keep up the good work Jared, because its people like you that are educating others and bringing new blood into the ArchiCAD fold, where Graphisoft have not realised they are missing the big picture.
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Jared Banks
Glad you enjoyed the interview and thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences. I totally agree. GRAPHISOFT really needs to up their training and learning resources online. There’s a huge gap and an even bigger need.