Like I said, this isn't black or white here. About 90% of our clients (Water/Wastewater) do not require revit for their projects, and I would say that probably even going forward many years well over half of them never will go so far as to require any particular cadding platform over the other. It's not black or white with regards 'to revit or not to revit'. There's a couple things in this statement that I take issue with. Revit skills give you higher wages as well, so I'd say: go for it! Reality is: in the near future, your employer will not be included in building projects if they are not working with BIM guidelines and the software supporting this (Revit) and you will have a hard time finding a job if you don't have Revit skills. Think outside of the context of your current employment and think of your future as a MEP Professional. Demand for AutoCAD MEP is already going back and demand for Revit Skills is huge. Once BIM has been implemented worldwide, we will all be using Revit and leave Autocad MEP behind, at least in the context of Building Services. With the requirements to use BIM as a guide to our building projects, it seems impossible to even consider to skip Revit. (Some companies, like Daiken or Evapco's models are so poor I rarely even bother with them wrote: Revit has more MFR participation in family building that ACAD has ever seen, EXCEPT MOST vendor models need to be heavily scrutinized for accuracy in my line of work since it's for fab takeoff. It's also: Easier to collaborate with design teams (Most commercial Architects have converted to Revit in our area.) Better for engineering data and performing calculations. Heavily relies on Orthangonal angles which make MEP detailing more difficult. Revit is: Slower, contans more steps to perform the same action. Autodesk is working on MEP+, but from my understanding, it's not really ready yet. In my personal experience, using ACAD/MEP for 15 years now for production, and transitioning to Revit MEPF, you're better off to stay with ACAD for MEPF purposes at the moment. Revit is easy to do calcs from, as long as you have a 100% connected system built. (Sorry guys, but the translation stuff sucks.)

For Fab/Takeoff purposes, it will require a 3rd party plug-in that isn't very cheap, or very effective just yet. Your level of detail will depend on what you can do with Revit.

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