Takes months or even years to fully master. Revit is made for construction and engineering, not for design. Thus, its tools are highly technical and takes a lot of time to master. Using Revit can sometimes feel like pulling teeth. If you’re transitioning from AutoCAD, you will be completely overwhelmed.

ARCHLine.XP is created with simplicity and flexibility in mind. It’s a tool that takes the best CAD elements from different software solutions and combines it into a single more efficient package. What takes hours to do in Revit is much easier to achieve in ARCHLine.XP. And with an all-encompassing wall to floor constraint system, you can create more accurate connections.

Revit does not include many tools to quickly automate tasks like creating a detailed roof or editing stairs. It also doesn’t provide many automatic tools for architecture, interior design or furniture making. Creating a simple fit-out or building extension often takes a lot of manual modelling that can cost significant productivity.

ARCHLine.XP comes with a roof tool, railing tool, stair tool, cabinet tool, kitchen tool, curtain tool, window and door tool, room-maker tool, teamwork tool, point-cloud tool, ceiling tool, tiling tool, furniture tool and much more to reduce the need to manually create objects.

 

Doing interior designs in Revit is extremely time-consuming and tedious. Something that takes 30-40 min to achieve can be achieved in ARCHLine.XP in 5-10min. Revit is clunky, slow and difficult to navigate. Any small tasks require a level of manual input that takes away a significant level of productivity.

ARCHLine.XP is an economical and intuitive tool to quickly conceptualise your interior designs. It is also a great tool that balances the technical with the conceptual as you will be exposed to the best of both worlds without having to switch between external programs. An entire bathroom or kitchen design can be completed in as little as 5-10 min.

 

With Revit you will be paying $3,245 every year for as long as you want to use their software. Over 5 years you will be paying over $16,225 in subscription costs. These sorts of overhead can prove extremely strenuous to small-medium sized design firms. Autodesk only cares about maximising profits while neglecting small-medium sized businesses.

Revit sells itself short by offering a more affordable version as Revit LT, which practically has none of the tools that initially made Revit appealing.

At ARCHLine.XP we realise that each client has their own sets of needs, wants and financial circumstances. Thus, we cater to a larger audience by making our pricing options more flexible to support small-medium sized businesses. We offer the following:

1. Lifetime License: $4,995

2. Payment Plan: $499/month  (12 months)

3. Rental: $349/month

According to many software developers, it is a well-known fact that Revit handles IFC very poorly. Will your roofs become IfcRoof, or will Revit decide your roof is a slab instead? Will your building element turn up at all? Who knows. Revit does what it wants.

Read some Revit IFC complaints , more Revit IFC problems,  even more IFC and Revit issues, because Revit doesn’t support IFC.

Well-suited for interior design and includes many design-focussed tools.

We try not to isolate our users and make it easy to export/import from ARCHLine.XP to many well-known 3D design formats. ARCHLine.XP is also IFC 2×3 certified and is compatible with AutoCAD DWG and DXF formats.

If that’s not enough, ARCHLine.XP import/export to the following file formats: RFA and RVT (Import), IFC, SKP, DXF, DWG, PDF, OBJ, 3DS, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GBXML.

 

Revit makes everything difficult – from the inability to share coordinates, having missing geometry, lagging of the Revit file, hatch patterns going haywire, and geometry out of extents errors.

These problems do not exhibit themselves in simple vanilla CAD files, but are very common in complex projects. This means CAD files have to undergo a cleanup process where we purge, delete, explode, and sometimes copy and paste into a blank file to start again. We shouldn’t need to do this cleanup process, especially not when DWG is a native Autodesk format.

Easily import coordinates for a terrain from .text or .dat data or translate imported dwg contours to 3D. Easily import DWG onto a floor plan as a seperate layer that can be turned on or off. DWG drawings acts as a group of geometry which can be edited and objects can be snepped to a line. Geometry can also be converted to 3D walls with the “wall from geometry” tool.

Revit does not know what a “building” is. It can sort of categorise walls, floors, roofs, but not a building? Revit does not recognise if a wall belongs to Building A or Building B. Imagine having a mixed-use project with two merging buildings and you’ve got yourself a maintenance nightmare.

Any BIM program works through the concept of relationships between elements. For example, for an IFC to be categorised properly, a storey most belong in a building. However, Revit has many problems with this as it does not recognise that elements have relationships. 

In addition, the most widely-used file format of BIM is more or less terrible in Revit. The simplest IFC of a few kB will take 15 seconds to import and in the process Revit will multiply the filesize by at least 10. Forget IFC 4, Revit can’t even do IFC2x3 properly. 

ARCHLine.XP recognises BIM data from a building and allows you to create seperate buildings with seperate storeys. Every object, whether a wall, floor or roof, can contain important BIM data that makes it easy for engineers to do their calculations. The IFC file handling in ARCHLine.XP is systematic and simple and BIM data is managed in a way that doesn’t cause more problems than it solves. 

Revit manages spectacularly bad at both 2D and 3D. You will experience incredibly slow panning on complicated 3D backgrounds as well as slow orbit/pan/zoom. Generally at a certain point, most users usually hit cancel when Revit asks if it should attempt to show you where the broken element is.

Easily navigate in and out of a building with absolute ease. File handling is fast and you can see where see where your viewpoint is located in the 2D live. You can essentially work with 2D and 3D at the same time. No lag. No warning popups.