Chief Vs Autocad

[marty]

The way I see it is not a question of which is better more which is more suited to the task.

For residential work Chief is the way to go except perhaps for very large custom houses using non standard construction methods

For larger commercial type projects needing teamwork and extensive sharing of data programs such as Archicad and Revit are the only way to go. The longer time required to build the CAD models and input the data is paid back many times over the course of the project. Use those programs for standard residential and the payback is less likely to happen.

I have been using Chief since V4 (Then in conjunction with DataCad for detailing) and have always said that when I get a project Chief cannot handle I will spend the money (and time) and move to Archicad. To date the largest project I have done is a 5 storey apartment complex and Chief handled it fine.