Slightly over 6 months ago, I was approached by one of my associates over at Unifi with an idea. They wanted to engage in a detailed competitive research project focused on content management systems for Revit. I was pleased that they approached me, because I obviously love Revit and I also love helping people to improve the whole ecosystem of software tools that surround Revit and BIM. In fact, I often provide too many suggestions to software companies I think
In this case, I was particularly interested in the topic as well. Having used Revit now for around 10 years, I had started to observe a trend in how Revit gets implemented into firms. Typically, they:
- Buy some Revit licenses
- Teach their people to use Revit
- Look at ways to standardize their use of Revit, perhaps through standards and template files
- Try to maximize the impact and benefit of BIM through some vertical products, such as Enscape
- Start thinking about how to deal with the many gigabytes of ‘content’ they…