BIM DIARY: WEEK 01

Starting this week, I'll be recording down my journey with Revit on Building Information Modeling (BIM).

We were lucky to have an opportunity of learning Revit from scratch with a local architecture firm that specialized in BIM. Through a work-and-learn basis, we ought to pick up the software and skills that come along with it by working on some real-life projects.

Basically the first week was mainly introductory and was rather boring. Going through all 12 Chapters of the tutorial videos are little way compact for the brain to absorb every single details. End up we took longer than 3 days to finish the videos for the fundamentals, or simply just to understand the dos and donts trying not to get into trouble.

So,

I start to get the overall picture of how Revit works, especially on data that it can contribute to BIM are humongous, almost unreal. Things that Revit can achieve really save us all time. 

I found the software was quite easy to pick up as Revit shares a lot of similar interfaces and commands with AutoCAD and 3dsMax that truly helpful for users to familiarize with. After all, it will take quite some time to make Revit handy to me. I suppose we all have to undergo the hardship before we can harvest the fruit.