ADT Still Has Mileage Left

Despite newer product being introduced and being actively promoted by a company, the product due to be superceded quite often shows surprising strength. Though Autodesk is actively promoting Revit, the architectural desktop( ADT) does not show any signs of becoming obsolete yet. In fact there seems to be active 3rd party support that adds to the products vitality.

H E Goldberg talked about two such resources in the Cadalyst issue. One of the advantages of ADT pointed out by Goldberg is an open API and VisionREZ is cited as a shining example of what could be done with ADT still! VisionREZ is a customized solution of ADT for the residential market and makes many design issues much simpler than it is in the original product. AmeriCAD has other resources for customer training and provides a set of services based on ADT.

ARCHIdigm is an example of useful resources. The author cites them for very useful training material for using ADT effectively.

I have been associated with both products. Couple of years back I was part of a set up that used to produce localized versions of software from Autodesk. I never really got very familiar with usage of the product. In my current avatar, I am into Revit quite heavily. I already see some workflow compatibility issues because Revit and AutoCAD did not come out of the same roots historically. I guess that would not be much of an issue with ADT as it's built on top of AutoCAD. Need to find out more.