Daniel Davis: CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting

For example, consider the recent crop of site feasibility software from companies such as Testfit, Archistar, and Spacemaker. These companies all do much the same thing – they make software that allows you to select a site and quickly generate a massing model and a proforma. It sounds simple enough, but software that automatically generates a building is cutting-edge stuff.

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Because Revit stretches across so many different topologies, it struggles with the specifics of each of them. For example, people using Revit to design apartment buildings have complained for over a decade that Revit can’t count the number of units in a building. Sure, you can futz around with room schedules, write a Dynamo script, or buy a plugin to export and display this data, but all of these feel like workarounds. Software that specializes in designing apartments, such as TestFit, performs these calculations out-of-the-box. So why does Revit make it so complicated?