BIM died in 2010.
That's the year AutoCAD got let into the model. DWGs went straight into RVT, the CAD trades never had to learn BIM, and the model filled up with lines that carry no information.
Brian's redlines
The board
Monday Morning Roast, Mondays 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET. Autodesk's choices, managers' poor practices, and the industry's favorite mistakes. And like every stream, your Revit questions still get solved live.
97% of clash detection happens in a viewer.
Navisworks, Revizto, ACC: a viewer can find a problem, but it can't fix one. Only about 3% happens inside Revit, where you can. That 3% is the sweet spot.
They model what nobody needs and leave out what everyone needs.
Manufacturer families with every knuckle and pin modeled, and no clearance for the door to swing.
No families over 1 MB. EVER.
Dirty families are where the gigabytes come from. Clean the families before you touch anything else.
Offsets drawn in a half-inch line so the clash shows resolved.
The field ignores them and the fitter just bends it. You'd better hope he does: every extra joint is another point of failure.
Twice as fast, twice the workload.
In most firms, a Revit user who gets twice as fast gets twice the work, not twice the pay. The time you save goes to someone else.
1.5 million seats. About 525,000 builders.
By our estimate, Autodesk sells about a million and a half Revit seats, and about 525,000 of us actually build in it. Fewer than 5,000 model the whole building.
Your turn
Bring your gripe
The firm that bills your speed as its profit. The family that crashed your sync. The meeting that should have been a model. Send it in, or type it in chat during the Roast. The good ones get roasted live, names left out.