Why model something when you can communicate the intent in just a few lines and text. “BIM plus CAD is just plain bad!” you say.ĭone correctly, mixing BIM and CAD can save a lot of time. Now, I know you BIM purists are shaking your collective heads in disgust. Since a lot of details are similar, it makes sense to brings those drawings into Revit. The first phase was done in traditional 2D CAD but they’ve switched to Revit for the second phase. They’re working on the second phase of a large campus project. My client has a lot of legacy CAD drawings and they want to bring those drawings into their Revit model. I’ve been working on a big project lately.