Revit/Bentley Architecture Comparison

Revit/Bentley Architecture

For our comparison experiment between the Revit and Bentley Architecture software, we decided, as a team, to design a 1-story residential building, containing a handful of components, such as doors, windows, and families that will be designed by ourselves, such as chairs, tables, and sofas. Our goal for this project is to create a complete building model in Revit, and transfer all of its data to Bentley Architecture. We want to see if Bentley will accept the whole model. If it comes out differently in Revit, we are to take note of its key differences such as similarities, what got accepted and what got rejected during the transfer and why, and any of the model that got altered in any way that ranges from walls to the very detail of any component.

By the end of this term, I would like to receive moderate experience working with Bentley Architecture and see the flow of transfering models to Revit. This will give me collaboration experience as well, because I believe in firms, contractors and designers will use either of these 2 BIM software or perhaps both, which means transferring data between the 2 softwares could be more difficult. If I can determine the relationship between the two BIM software, it would go a long way for me to become fluent with today's BIM.

Challenges

The Bentley system would slightly be more complicated than the Revit software, but in my opinion, wouldn't be too challenging. However, the major concern would be the data transfer. As I looked into several tutorial videos, transferring data from Revit and Bentley would overall be easy, but the model would not be 100% same on the other side. Differences could be as huge as a different roof or wall, to the smallest detail of change in width or length by an inch. There is never any guarentee the two models in both softwares will result in the same, as both softwares were made from two different companies. This challenge is critical to the future of BIM modelling.


References

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A8A1C3167E4A4E6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMt5IThYdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEtQNnChG74

Comments

Alsaleem (link) - I really like how you compared AI in relation to Intelligent Buildings. AI needs to be taken seriously because it is becoming more of a reality each day further rather than just a mere dream. But it will be a huge step in the engineering world. Also leading to robotics, it will help shape the industrial world in the next century with faster processing.

Maissoun (link) - To me, Intelligent building would be same as Green building. To achieve sustainability in a building, it would have to technology that can help reduce energy consumption, have a positive enviornmental impact, and still make lives easier for people. Green and Intelligent are basically two sides of the same coin. Achieving sustainability would require advanced technology to build clean resources, normally not available to regular houses.

Sarah (link) - AI would be very important to the future of construction for buildings and bridges. I like how you explained the benefit of AI inspections. It can have many benefits, but it would overall require a hired staff member or 2 to check that inspection. Leaving inspections to just the AI would be time saving, but also very risky. If there was any problem the AI did not detect, and the inspector never saw it for himself/herself, it would compromise the whole project.