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Autodesk's Revit BIM program reaches
the 100,000 user mark
Jeffrey Yoders, associate editor
June 8,
2006
Building Design and Construction
San Rafael, Calif.-based Autodesk, Inc., a manufacturer of
architectural design software, announced its Revit Building
Information Modeling (BIM)
software has been installed on more than 100,000
computers, less than 6 years after its acquisition, this week
at the American Institute of Architects Convention and Exposition in
Los Angeles.
"The tool is very well aligned with what's going on in the
broader industry," said Phil Bernstein, AIA, VP of Autodesk's
building industry division. "And that's a desire to do much more
sophisticated design."
Autodesk purchased Revit, Inc. in 2002 and said at the time
that they viewed it as a complementary product to its AutoCAD
program. Autodesk competes with Gehry Technologies and Cadalyst, but
is the first to reach such wide acceptance in the Architecture,
Engineering, and construction industries. The user base
for AutoCAD is still larger than that of Revit, but its
growth is not nearly as strong as that of the
object-enabled Revit.
"There was definitely a shift in the conversation we've been
having about integrated practice, and that happened about 14 months
ago," Bernstein said. "At the AIA convention last year they had Thom
Mayne, myself and some others appear on stage and talk about BIM. If
there was a tipping point, I'd say that was it."
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