REVIT Training
REVIT Training
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I am a structural engineer at a full serivce architectural firm (arch, struct, mech, elec, interiors). I have been in the work force for 14 years. I am being "encouraged" to take a REVIT class that the company would pay for. What are the opinions of other structural engineers? Is this something good for my career?





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Now that being said, make sure you take a class from a company whose trainers have some experience in layout of drawings.
A lot of training comes from software oriented people who are deep on the Revit part, but not very deep on how to use it in our business. You ask them a layout type question in regards to how to do it in Revit and they may not know the answer.
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Never, but never question engineer's judgement
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It gets you out of the office and you may actually learn something..
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Please report back here how the course was because my firm hasn't found one worthwhile. All have only showed us how to draw the basics, but not how to use it in a fully functioning multi discipline firm....worksharing, drawing efficiency, etc.
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the class is being offered by a local trade school. Several architectural technicians have taken the course as well as a few architects. The class revolves around doing a complete drawing package for a small one story building. The class also focuses on using Revit in a multi discipline situation. All in all the reviews of the class have been good, but additional training/learning is probably required for engineers (structural, mechanical, electrical).
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I can see Revit's usefulness and I can understand needing to know how to use it. But I think the intention of the company is that the engineers will use Revit to put projects together. I see this as taking away from time needed to do actual design work on a project.
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Your thinking is correct though. Revit will take away a SIGNIFICANT amount of time away from your design tasks....Much more than Autocad. You need to make this very clear to your management and get a very defined course of action. If they think it's as efficient as Autocad, they're in for a rude awakening.