Can anyone compare Chief Architect with REVIT LT

[johnnyprc]

I faced this decision for our small frim 1 1/2 years ago - and bought Revit first, then CA. Even though there are many things I like about Revit over Chief, such as the UI, less-quirky behavior, and less backwards ways of doing things, Chief is dominate in critical features and overall ease of use. Chief really needs to work on the quirky part, but it is better in so many ways to Revit. Try doing different roof ends in Revit without custom modeling - it doesn't exist beyond a couple options. If I had a larger firm and worked mostly on commercial projects, I would go with Revit. However, it sounds like you are not in that group.

Keep in mind that you will still need another drawing app for misc things - I can't imagine drawing certain things with CA (even though it might be technically possible).

[lbuttery]

What would you estimate the content of Revit LT to be against Revit Full?


Justice:

no clue - I have never seen either one

I have been saying for years that since HD PRO costs $500 versus Chiefs $2300
that it probably has only 20% of the features

that is a guess-timate - a SWAG
the true % ???

Lew

[Justice]

What would you estimate the content of Revit LT to be against Revit Full?


Justice:

no clue - I have never seen either one


I have been saying for years that since HD PRO costs $500 versus Chiefs $2300
that it probably has only 20% of the features

that is a guess-timate - a SWAG
the true % ???

Lew

Lew I downloaded the comparison matrix for Revit LT and Revit Full and it looks like its around the 2/3rds mark and I think
the ArchiCAD comparison would be more like 2/3rds as well when it comes to features contents. But they do leave out the rendering engines in these intro products that I think are a must and CA lite and HDpro both have the rending in it.

[Justice]

I faced this decision for our small frim 1 1/2 years ago - and bought Revit first, then CA. Even though there are many things I like about Revit over Chief, such as the UI, less-quirky behavior, and less backwards ways of doing things, Chief is dominate in critical features and overall ease of use. Chief really needs to work on the quirky part, but it is better in so many ways to Revit. Try doing different roof ends in Revit without custom modeling - it doesn't exist beyond a couple options. If I had a larger firm and worked mostly on commercial projects, I would go with Revit. However, it sounds like you are not in that group.

Keep in mind that you will still need another drawing app for misc things - I can't imagine drawing certain things with CA (even though it might be technically possible).

Johnny,
I can see from what you said here that CA is easier to use overall. If you know specifically what CA needs to work on, please put it in the suggestions I would like to read it from your perspective of using both Revit & CA.