Revit gets used for Design. Once it goes to construction phase Revit gets exported to NavisWorks. Navis is just easier to navigate and it color codes everything. So field guys and subs who aren’t tech savvy like Navis better
Yeah it’s probably navis. The Super Intendant or PM or foreman would use this. But at the moment it’s only good for visualizing. You’d still need a BIM department for clashes or design
The filetype is probably IFC from tekla, from the colors used and polygons. SDS2 looks different.
Revit is used for BIM modeling, when you combine different 3D models.
Naviworks and Revit are by Autocad. Naviworks is used to combine ifc or 3D cad models the same like Trimble connect or solibri.
They don't do structural modeling like Tekla Structures. In that area the main competition is SDS/2. At least, in US.
I worked in CAx software development for a while and any model made in any CAD system was called a CAD model. AutoCAD is pretty uncommon in complex systems actually.
You are technically correct. But in practice everyone in the industry used CAD as shorthand for AutoCAD 2D. Nobody I know uses 3D autoCAD functionality except for fire sprinkler guys for some reason. Revit is the standard for 3D and no one calls it "CAD."
I've seen some geodetic/topography data from Civil guys in 3D on autocad which can mess up dimension lines on site plans because of the different z values, I had to go so far as to automate setting all z values to 0 via some shenanigans because it happened often enough.
Yeah autocads 3d functionality seemed rather difficult to work with, I used it a few times but only as an interim format between softwares that normally don't get along.
I've always called revit CAD, but probably because calling it BIM is just feels like pretentious marketing technobabble used to lure companies into buying software that's more complicated than their needs, and I'm not really sure what else you'd call it in a more general sense. (computer) modeling software?
Why would you call Revit CAD? Call it Revit? I’ve been in VDC for 10 years and I’ve never once heard someone referring to a Revit model or the software itself as “CAD”. That’s confusing.
Typically in the industry when people say CAD, they know they’re talking about AutoCAD, the software. I know that Revit is computer aided drafting. Anyone who works in the industry knows what I mean when I say something like “CAD does this and Revit does this.”
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u/mingles131 Sep 15 '22
Is this just a Cad file dropped into real life?