Keith,
For many years in other offices, I used rhino as the design model and revit as the primary BIM model. These were typically large, complex projects with lots of consultants, levels, hundreds of doors and such. I often used visualarq as a primer in the design model that was then ported over to the revit model.
In my current practice, the projects are much smaller and simpler (typically around 30ksf or less), deal with many fewer consultants (typically 1-5), and have fewer items that need scheduling. I’ve been exclusively using rhino and visualarq for these projects. It significantly faster and easier to design, model, present, and document smaller projects from a conceptual level through construction documents exclusively in rhino without having to create two models in two programs or tediously force revit do things it was never meant to do so that I can have access to features which I don’t actually need.
The major struggles are:
- Reflected ceiling plans (which require a complex workaround that has been discussed in the forum). I’m really looking forward to this being addressed.
- Dimensions not maintaining history
- Lack of some overarching control between similar view types which make controlling a large number of drawings more tedious (such as the view template setup in revit). There are also workarounds to this, but it would be best if was more centrally controlled.
- The computational drain on larger projects with lots of objects, views, and sheets.
Basically any recent project you see on my website is done in rhino & visualarq.
studioarcus.com
Hope this helps.