Hi Eduardo, thanks for the reply!  I guess that means you are using it on real projects?  What kind of projects are you doing?...residential, commercial?  Are you using it as a design tool?

 Hi, I'm Paolo I'm 26 and I'm using Revit since 2006.

I'm currently the BIM manager of a big firm in Milan, Italy and we're developing projects from schematic design to construction documentation using only Revit. Of course we have to deal with suppliers that are using CAD platforms, and that's quite awful as you can imagine.

I designed residential, commercial (stores and retails, mall, etc...) and industrial buildings before I passed to the BIM management only. As BIM manager I try to keep the team informed about the right procedures to follow to obtain the best results with the software and most of the time I'm designing specific components for all the projects. The more difficult part is to change the way my collegues think about the designing process within Revit, I can see that something is always missing in their approach, and then I have to fill the gap between thier ideas and a "Revitation" of their problems.It's just because they don't know the software as long as I do, I guess. But when I see good results and people who self-solve their issues with a totally BIM approach, I feel proud of my job and I know that I'm doing right.

For example, keynoting,scheduling, area plans, phasing, and other functionality are new to many of my collegues: well, after using Revit they won't never come back. There are many things to fix to obtain good quality drawings from a model, something that you can compare with the previous documents of the firm, but it in the end it's possible. The team members discovered the amount of time saved in the latter stages of the design process using a BIM approach: it's a sort of investiment in terms of time you do in the early stages, during the preliminary design,  so you'll be safe if changes may happend in further stages (and they happend according to Murphey's laws).

All the best

-paolo

hi..i started using revit last 2009, when i was workin on a small arch'l firm in my home country..im workin on a small interior design firm here in dubai right now, and unfortunately..i was the only one who knows how to use revit as well as max...i was pretty excited before joining them coz i thought i could learn some techniques from them but no..they dont even know revit..so sad..so i need to answer my own question and discover the rest all by myself..so far i was able to survive.. since my main tasked is to do those 3d pers for our client..and since i dont know much modeling in max (for now..but im starting to practice it)..my current workflow is i model all those things in revit then export it as acad then file link in max (btw, i only use max because of vray, so i model every furniture showcases etc in revit) since majority of our project is on retail/shops/boutiques.. i just merge some nice accessories and object from my max 3d library..i find it easier to model in revit than max..then add my materials and lighing in max..im just havin a hard time adding material in revit (coz what i thought is that the model needed some identity in order for max to apply material easilly) then add vray material in max later...but i dont actually put the actual material in revit, just a material name so when i apply material in max-vray..its easier..the hadest thing for me is when somethin has changed in the design, and needed to update my model in revit..although the "apply materials on reload" is checked still there are some parts/models that i needed to re apply again the vray material..right now, thats the only problem i am having and i havnt found any solution yet..i'll let you know if i dscover something very soon..