The first area of concern is Revit’s lack of development and progress. There are three primary areas of concern for most firms behind this letter. (The average response was between 1-3.)īritish design firms pen open letter to Autodesk CEO about Revit’s lack of progress and increased licensing costs, an evolving arrangement they find untenable. The net sum of the results of the questionnaire is, given the context of this development, substantially low. The questions focus on the Revit platform but also on issues like Autodesk licensing and industry-wide demand for data interoperability. The questionnaire contained nine questions ( you can download the letter and questionnaire here) with a rating scale between 1 and 10 (1 being strongly disagreed and 10 being strongly agreed). Eight firms chose not to sign the letter but completed the questionnaire. Questionnaire and LetterĪpproximately four weeks ago a questionnaire was circulated among IT and digital design directors in London firms, equating to approximately 5,000 paid seats and USD 22 million of revenues (2015 – 2019 time frame) amongst 25 large practices with most of them having international operations. On July 27, a group of global and elite British design firms, including Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw, and Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners, and nearly two dozen others, sent a public letter to Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost asking essentially for more attention in the development of Revit for architecture practices working at the leading edge of design, while simultaneously committing to fairer and more stabilized pricing. WRITING THIS FROM BOSTON, it seems hard not to think about this as a 21st century Boston Tea Party moment.

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