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Since my office is on subscription, a couple of weeks ago we received the latest and greatest version of AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2009. No updates to the software, they just added AutoCAD Architecture to the suite. We tried Architectural Desktop (which is now AutoCAD Architecture) a few years ago and the office as a collective whole decided that it was not worth switching over from AutoCAD to what we felt was a clunky quasi 3D program. We tried ArchiCAD from Graphisoft for 6 months and again felt like it was not the right program to suit our needs. There were things that we liked about ArchiCAD, but it just was not as intuitive and user friendly as we hoped it would be. Then there was Revit.

I don't know about other people or offices, but the firm that I work for experimented with this program and loved it. We switched all of our projects to Revit and practically disposed of AutoCAD. It seems like the only time I open up AutoCAD these days is to look at a CAD file that has been exported from Revit and to make sure it looks the way it should before sending it to a CAD based consultant. I don't know why AutoDesk felt the need to bundle in another program with their suite. Maybe they are trying to make the suite look like a better deal or maybe to appease the AutoCAD Architecture population who may have been feeling left out. Perhaps I would feel like I was getting more out of my bundled software if 3DS Max or Design was included. Needless to say, I won't be benefiting from this latest addition to the suite.

I have been using Revit on my Macbook Pro for a couple of years now. Most of my projects have been high end residential houses and I have to say that Revit has performed beautifully on my computer. In fact, I have less errors, crashes and speed issues using Revit in a virtual PC environment via Parallels than on my PC at the office. If it wasn't for Revit being PC only, I probably would have no need for xp or Parallels on my system. I would be ecstatic if AutoDesk would come out with a Mac version of Revit.

I would prefer it if I didn't have to use Windows on my home computer at all. I haven't tried running Revit via bootcamp or virtual pc so I can't make any comparison's to the alternatives. I have been happy utilizing Revit through Parallels. I like the fact that I can run it whether in a virtual window or through Coherence. That way I can still have access to Adobe CS3, mail, iTunes, etc. It seems to be the best of both worlds. Boot Camp forces you to use one OS or the other.

So if I am working in Revit, if I want to access Photoshop or any other Mac based program, I would have to reboot my computer and login to the OSX side. At the time I bought my Mac, there were a couple of better known programs that allowed users to run the Windows OS in a window on the OSX operating system. I have heard about user accounts saying that Virtual PC worked, but it was mind numbing slow. What is the best computer for gaming. I don't know, maybe Virtual PC has made leaps and bounds and improved upon their product over the last couple of years, but Parallels has been working like a charm for me. I ultimately went with Parallels because it seemed to have more positive feedback and customer satisfaction.

I haven't regretted my decision. If the hatch/fill pattern you are copying is to be a Drafting type pattern, you can import them directly, through the Settings pulldown menu> Fill Patterns select New and Custom then Import from any AutoCAD.pat file directly into Revit. They will then be in your project.

To copy an AutoCAD hatch pattern as a model pattern in Revit, you need to copy and paste the AutoCAD hatch pattern code into the revit.pat file. Open the Settings> Fill Patterns, select New then select Custom and Import to open the revit.pat file. Select the fill pattern from the Revit.pat file and change the scale of the AutoCAD hatch pattern accordingly.

Now to avoid any confusion, remember that with Revit, the.pat file is named either revit.pat (Imperial) or revitmetric.pat (Metric). With AutoCAD the acad.pat is Imperial and the acadiso.pat is the Metric one.

You would be surprised how many people confuse the two. Model Patterns Model patterns will represent actual element appearance on a building, such as how brick coursing or ceramic tile will appear on a wall, and they will be fixed with respect to the model. In other words, they scale with the model, so as the view scale changes, the pattern will scale accordingly.