I would say the foremost question to ask your mentor is ‘what did they use when receiving their education?’ Now this would be an evolving answer for many experienced architects. These all have significant impact on choice. market position and saturation in the region.I would say there are multiple factors that come down to why an architect or company purchases a particular program: I would suggest that ArchiCAD can do anything SketchUp can, if suitably simplified for designing by adapting the workspace and template. Quantifying and scheduling is an area where ArchiCAD has enormous potential but a lot of these setting are not preset, and therefore need to be created or imported by a user with an advanced understanding of their functionality.įinally, many would argue that ArchiCAD is simply too complex to be used as a design tool and would instead opt for something like SketchUp.
While it can create a compelling visualisation for photo-realism I would outsource to dedicated rendering software.ĢD documentation remains an essential part of my architectural services and ArchiCAD is great at blending it's 3D and 2D functionality. Visualisation (rendering) in ArchiCAD is competent but time consuming and not very intuitive. I chose to use ArchiCAD, not because it is the best program at any one function, but rather it is a quite good at performing all of the functions I require.ĪrchiCAD is very good at 3D modelling, maybe with the exception of organic form (of which has greatly improved over the past few years through the use of the shell, morph, and curtain wall tools), but for true organic modelling you would include workflow out of Rhino 3D. It would be rightly assumed that my opinion is biased, and you will find many differing recommendations online. Any information would be greatly appreciated." I'm in two minds as to whether in my early stages of my career I should change to Revit or not. I'm now a little confused as to why they seem to prefer it over ArchiCAD or is it just personal opinion? Having spoken with a number of local architects, it seems a lot of them are using Revit. "I'm wondering, whats your opinion on Revit vs ArchiCAD? Today's blog comes from a question regarding a very contentious debate: ArchiCAD vs Revit.
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