![]() Visualarq gives it a lot of added power and makes it much more architectural than simply modeling forms. It’s flexible for a variety of workflows, has great support from the developer, and has a lot of tremendous plugins. Rhino is, in my opinion, currently the best architectural modeling software out there. That being said, I would not want to generate construction documents on a massive project with anything else. There is no backward compatibility, no ability to work with other versions even between consultants, and it is the most expensive architectural software I see commonly used (not counting Ghery Tech, Catia, and such). This is not as big a deal for mid and large size firms but can be a major impediment to smaller ones. Autodesk is essentially a monopoly and the pricing of Revit reflects that. ![]() Nearly every firm I’ve ever heard of uses some other modeling software and then imports or rebuilds the design in Revit later. The design method is not intuitive or flexible. The software updates generally do not resolve these workarounds so simple annoyances from 10 years ago are often still annoyances. You can find endless numbers of forums where people have complicated work-arounds for seemingly simple tasks that for whatever reason are not natively a part of Revit. That said, it is painful to work outside of the boundaries that autodesk has established. For large complicated buildings that have months or years of drawing time this is probably the construction document generation software for you. You can easily work on large projects with hundreds of sheets, and thousands of elements such as doors, plumbing fixtures, etc that would need to be referenced in a schedule. Revit is a beast, especially when it comes to schedules and working with very large and complicated projects. It is terrible for design flexibility and small one-off projects. Revit is great for data organization and repetitive buildings. I’m most familiar with Revit as the BIM application. For larger projects, it is very useful as a design/modeling tool which is later intergrated into a larger BIM software such as Revit. I would say Rhino/VisualArq is a good standalone BIM software for smaller projects with fewer than say, 50 architectural sheets. In the future this may not necessarily be the case, but this is where we are at the moment. I’m also assuming your end goal of a BIM software is to develop construction documents. Of course, this is all based on my own experiences so others may have different ideas about the benefits and drawbacks. And VisualArq work very well together and are useful on a variety of project sizes for varying uses.
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