![]() At that time I'll have to decide to buy a whole new computer system and VW, or give up on CAD work. Thus, my conclusion is that keeping the old VW running won't work anyone more after about 8 years. I figure the age of the OS and browsers will become intolerable within 2-3 years. I'm pretty well constrained to use Firefox since some websites (like my bank) don't work with an old Safari browser. Since I can't upgrade my Mac OS, I can not upgrade my Safari browser. What happens is that I am now unable to upgrade my Mac OS because VW 2015 won't work on a more recent Mac OS. I thought I could just keep it "forever" since it was not on subscription. I am retired and kept VW to do (mostly) charity work. ![]() I just had to put my two cents in about one comment you made. If I was still working solo I probably wouldn't be able to generate enough revenue to justify the current cost of Revit (also being close to retirement I don't want to have a CAD program that I need to keep paying for simply because I want to do a little CAD work). For a single user office (like I used to be) this is a big deal. You can chose to be a subscription member or not. I like Vectorworks more as it is much more affordable, and the fact that your license never expires. So back to the original question Vectorworks Vs Revit, they are both competent programs. ![]() Also helpful when the construction management company calls you says they are not clear what is happening in part of the building and you just use the clip cube and send them a 3d screenshot. We have an open office it's fun to listen to some of the senior people standing over the shoulders of juniors now as they spin the model around and cut live sections for them to look at and they go WOW! I didn't know you could even do that. Fortunately there are a few younger and more open minded people in the office and I've been teaching them how to use VW as more of a BIM tool. I have co-workers who have used VW since the 90's and still draw section marker manually, use none of the plug-in tools for windows doors and stairs etc, yet they update to the latest release every year. Our office uses Revit and Vectorworks, although I use mostly VW. What I've found in my experience is that it is not which of the major BIM programs you use but the willingness of users to learn how to drive the program to it's full potential. I wish you could take the best of each program and mash it into a single super program. I started in AutoCAD and even taught it for a while but I left it behind years in ago in favour of BIM programs. I've used a number of different CAD softwares over the years, started in AutoCAD (when it was DOS), used Architectural Desktop, Inventor, Rhino, Chief Architect, Vectorworks and tried a number of other programs like ArchiCAD.Īll the programs have things that they do really well and they all have their weaknesses and they all have things they do the same it is just a matter of where you find the tool and what buttons you have to push. Guess I don't have the right mix of left brain and right brain. Bottom line though is that the more I work with VW, the better I like it. VW definitely has a learning curve which I personally found more difficult than the other 3D programs I've been exposed to. An example - Section lines could be simple to control through classes and layers but the visibility is controlled through the OIP for the section viewport. With any program you have to discover the idiosyncrasies to become productive but in VW's case, some of the solutions are well hidden. Having just done my first real project, I found a lot of road blocks which made no sense. ![]() ![]() However, I have found a lot of things in VW are not intuitive at all. The timber framing part is much better in VW and I prefer the general paradigm of classes and layers. Cost is much better than Revit or Archicad. On some projects I incorporate timber framing which was always an issue in Revit. After a couple of years, the cost of Archicad was less than Revit and every year, this just got better. This coupled with some annoying things about Revit moved me to Archicad. Also, any plugins you might need are typically quite expensive. While I totally got the logic of Revit, the costs were just too much for my taste. I started with Revit just before Autocad went to a full subscription model. ![]()
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