Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Revit or Plant 3D

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-mep-forum/revit-or-plant-3d/m-p/7186667

Since I work with both, I'll just try to list the biggest differences, based on what kind of project you said you do:

1 - Plant 3D doesn't do electrical design. I mean, you can use AutoCAD blocks and plugins, but it doesn't do it natively.

2 - Revit doesn't work with specs. Piping design is not focused on bolts, gaskets, connections restrictions, etc.

3 - it's quite hard to produce annotated isometrics in Revit, needed for process piping.

4 - Both Plant and Revit will deal with equipment layout just fine. But, again, Plant will focus on the details and restrictions of your nozzles. Revit will just go and connect onto whatever diameter it can, not a spec-driven modeling.

5 - Steel structure will also be handled by both, but Revit will have more resources and will be able to create a more detailed structure.

If you need any more detail into any of these, just ask and I'll try to exemplify better.

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