Add a door, and the door schedule updates instantly.) However, they are not bi-directional like ArchiCAD. It certainly isn't BIM to the extent that ArchiCAD is, but the last couple of releases have made significant progress.

There are some misconceptions in the OP's understanding of Chief Architect. With all of that said, are there any former Revit or Chief Architect users that migrated over to ArchiCAD and have been very satisfied? Are you able to do your work much faster than Revit, and feel it is much more powerful for your needs than CA? At this point, I could go either way with CA or ArchiCAD, so I'd greatly appreciate your opinions on this issue. Other than that, it would be very fast and allow me to make money faster. I really like CA, but it's not full BIM, doesn't have auto labels, you can't schedule anything other than what they have, no live schedules, you can't click everything in 3D to edit like full BIM, the elevations and sections need to get exploded to edit the lines. I've also been following a training book on Chief Architect and slowly working on a house learning the software.

I recently downloaded the trial of ArchiCAD, and so far very impressed.

Revit is powerful and nice at some things, but a pain at any building that's not a square box with flat roof. I'm a current Revit (advanced) user using it for mostly residential projects, and I'm looking for a better solution that is faster and overall more efficient for simple and complex residential projects. Hi all, I'm brand new to this forum, so thanks' for responding to my post.

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