by apetitde » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:51 pm
Thanks for your enthusiastic messages!
It's been quite long to convert my colleagues, given our constant flow of work to do.
As you said, we had two staff members who didn't want to learn a new way of working: one of them retired now, and the other left the office to work on freelance. And my new colleagues were younger and much more willing to try BIM.
Things really started when I became able to produce nice rendered perspective views, and colored elevations, based on acad plans.
The next step was to create plans that looked the same as our acad plans, and it was a long way...
I needed a few projects before I got satisfied with what I could create with REvit, and it was quite fun to open the first files a few months after, since I had been using lots of weird workarounds for things I couldn't build right (for the worst: groups of thin floors and walls for louvers, instead of clean families with extrusions...)
When I was able to design and document a small project without any other software, I started a big one on REvit, and insisted, on latter phases, when my colleagues had to work with me to develop it, that we kept on building it with REvit, and we did it!
Now I'm starting to build a good template with all the nice stuff we've created in these different projects.
And I'm still learning and discovering, day after day.