Revit Demands – Part 2 – No Spare Change

CAD Manager – get with it. There is a lot of change happening in the design world. None of it can just be ignored like the spare change on your dresser or the bottom of your purse.

If you are in an industry that is embracing a tool like Revit, then you need to get with the program and start changing for the new times.

CAD Managers must not get stuck in a 2D world.

I know many CAD Managers that have been doing 3D for years. They have taken their firms and themselves to the next level already. They are at the forefront of the technology push and are actually leading the way. The title CAD Manager does not mean that the only tool you use and promote is 2D CAD. There are some new titles that are popping up, like BIM Manager and BIM Model Coordinator, but they are redefinitions of CAD Manager roles. It is a manager that is needed.

This kind of dramatic change has happened before.

While it may be true that the current advancement in software functionality is dynamic, there have been many such transitional phases that we have migrated through. Board drafting to CAD, the introduction of reference files, the use of Paper Space and now the move to 3D/BIM. Transitions happen all the time. Some may be small steps and others wholesale overturning of the status quo. Revit use demands that we stop thinking in terms of linear CAD processes and think spatially. Start thinking in 3D.

Change must be managed.

And who better to do that than someone who has “been there, done that”. CAD Managers are use to focusing and managing change. They do it all the time. Changing to a 3D tool may require you to think outside the 2D box. Don’t get stuck in a Layer List. Move into Property Management. Become “Family” friendly.