MEP Revit?
Ya the amount of different things you can do with Rhino with more ease and power, i am very impressed as well
good to see not everybody is anti-Rhinoceros here KewlToyZ
We have the Revit MEP package, honestly, Revit is extremely costly to startup and very difficult to train for.
Have to completely wipe out all CAD experience to adopt the Revit approach.
Also it would appear we can't begin work until the initial Arch design is completed so it isn't very time convenient.
There may be workarounds in place, but over all acceptance isn't very high with my people.
We also have budget constraints that just don't seem to play out very well considering the production life cycle for Revit yet.
I say yet because it is an intelligent design approach with projected savings and benefits on the back end.
Still very tough to take the leap.
MEP, we still find basic AutoCAD use with it to be the main focus.
Refining the content libraries and template file for our own standards is still in progress for 2008.
The fact is with projects fluctuating so much in their phase and scope of handling,
standard CAD procedures are a crutch I do not have any reason to release yet.
Employee turnover is another reason, we have quite a few Engineers doing a revolving door with us over the past 2 years.
What is ironic is most of them are coming back because they are finding they took far too much for granted with us.
Rhino has a specific nitch and it does very well there.
At the time I began using it was 3.0.
In that time period it was not the best thing for basic mechanical orthographic drafting unless you purchased an add on.
Mainly the dimensioning wasn't as good as AutoCAD.
For 2D work AutoCAD was my preference, still is.
When it comes to 3D though, I'll take Rhino over 3DS Max & AutoCAD.
I just find the environment easier to work with.
McNeel did a great job designing the platform.
