nXt 4 Revit

[Ros. Riha]

Having undertaken a schooling in Revit today, I feel strongly tempted to switch to it.

In my country, there is massive support to do so: I already own couple of Revit licenses because of upgrading my ACA ones.

My only concern is the following: Is the nXt implementation to Revit as strong as the AutoCAD one? If not, is it going to improve? When?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Nope-- and no plans at the moment beyond the current project-- at least until Autodesk improves their plugin interface.  It is pretty easy to bring a view into AutoCAD for rendering.

[akinlolu olugboji]

For those of used to assign materials by layer would the faces issues not be a problem? Because then you have to now start assigning materials by objects, to me  is a lot of work.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

There are materials in Revit-- I can't quite remember how Revit breaks them down when converting to AutoCAD.  There may be problems with this approach.

[akinlolu olugboji]

What will be the best approach as am thinking of taking on revit soon myself. 

 

How far with the standalone version of Nxt, which I believe would solve alot of cross platform problems. Reason I could not go the way of V-Ray the trouble of having to shift to a whole new interface, since it comes as a pluggin and not a standalone. 

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

No clue-- you'll need to tell me.

[Ros. Riha]

Thanks for the info. We think of starting some kind of "test use" of Revit in till the end of the year - during this periond we might stick on rendering Revit models from within AutoCAD... Full transition of the office from ACA to Revit is not likely to happen until this time next year.

What would you be your guess? Would nXt-Revit offer all thje niceties of nXt-AutoCAD?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Not likely.  Like I said, it really depends on Autodesk, not us.  

[Kyprianos Arnaoutoglou]

I recall that in early versions of Revit, before it was acquired by Autodesk, the rendering section was powered by Accurender.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Yep.

[Ros. Riha]

not only that, the whole revit was originally developed by McNeel.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Nope.

[akinlolu olugboji]

http://irendernxt.com/forum/topics/accurender-nxt-in-revit