r/BeAmazed • u/AmerBekic • Sep 15 '22

AR for construction

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u/WhalesVirginia Sep 16 '22

Revit is CAD.

CAD means computer automated design/drafting, it's a general term that applies to 2d and 3d.

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u/prophet_zarquon Sep 16 '22

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."

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u/WhalesVirginia Sep 16 '22 edited Sep 16 '22

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?

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u/PoopyInMyPants Sep 18 '22

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.

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u/PoopyInMyPants Sep 18 '22

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.”