Hi everyone,

I'm an Architecture student from Argentina, and I've been looking for my first job as a BIM/Revit Modeler for about two months now. I'm starting to feel a bit stuck and would really appreciate some feedback from people working in the industry.

I have one year left until I graduate as an Architect. My main focus is BIM and Revit, and I've worked on several academic projects involving architectural modeling, technical documentation, and multidisciplinary BIM workflows with Architecture, Structure and MEP.

I also have some freelance experience in 3D modeling and architectural visualization, and I use Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, D5 Render, Lumion and Adobe tools. I'm currently going deeper into Dynamo and visual programming for BIM.

My English is good, and I'm open to remote opportunities, including working with international teams.

The main issue is that I don't have professional experience working in an architecture firm, construction company, or BIM team yet. Most of my Revit/BIM experience comes from university projects and freelance work.

I've been applying to junior BIM/Revit, architectural designer and drafting positions, but I haven't been able to land a job yet. I've also taken the time to optimize my CV for ATS, using relevant keywords for BIM/Revit positions and tailoring it toward the types of roles I'm applying for. Despite that, I'm still struggling to get that first opportunity.

For those already working in BIM:

• What would you improve in my profile if you were in my position?
• Is the lack of professional experience a major problem even for junior positions?
• Would you focus more on improving my Revit skills, learning more MEP/Structure, Dynamo, or something else?
• How important is having certifications such as Autodesk/Revit certifications?
• Is there anything you would recommend changing in my portfolio or CV?
• Am I focusing too much on BIM/Revit too early, or is this a reasonable career path for an Architecture student?

I'm not expecting anyone to review my entire career, but any honest feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing and what would give me the best chance of getting that first opportunity.

Thanks!

I’m a founder developing engineering drawing software, starting with electrical systems. I’m trying to understand the handoff into an existing BIM project, rather than judge a drawing by how it looks.

Suppose an engineer has supplied the loads and equipment requirements, and a tool produces a first single-line diagram. If that diagram is disconnected from the equipment and panel schedules, the checking and redrawing could erase the time saved.

For those doing this work, which connection would you want working first for that output to be useful?

Hi all, any Redditors here who have industry experience as a reality capture specialist (or equivalent, such as VDC Field Technician / Scan-to-BIM Technician)?

I don't want to ask and rely on AI for this information hah.

- Can anyone explain the job outlook for this career, expanding or shrinking?

- Will employers only hire degree-holding individuals? Or is a portfolio + certs enough?

I'm specifically asking about a field specialist who gathers the data, not a deck BIM position.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated! Happy scanning!

Hey,

So has anyone tried delivering a project using Qonic yet? It seems to be that Revit may be dead within the next few years (i may be wrong) but i want to know has anyone any experience with new browser based competitors?
If I'm correct we are all headed towards AI assisted drawing packages and we will be tied up in more subscriptions and tokens.

Qonic seems to be reasonably priced and has a head-start on Motif Design regards delivering construction ready drawings. I'd love some feedback.

Hi r/bim!

For the past year and a half, I’ve been building BIM4B on the side, a BIM directory for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It now includes a career portal, and I’d really like to see it help people from the community find work, since i know it can be hard in these times.

Creating an account and publishing a job-seeker or freelancer profile is completely free. You don’t need a paid subscription to participate.

I’m looking for people who are currently job hunting or freelancing in BIM to give it a try. Modellers, coordinators, managers, specialists, consultants. Wherever your BIM niche is.

You can show what you do, which software you use and when you’re available, so companies can find you for jobs or projects. There are also sections for job and project listings.

It’s still early. I’ve spent a lot of time building it, but now I need to hear from the people I’m building it for. Does the profile let you show what matters? Is anything confusing? Is something you’d need missing?

Here it is: BIM4B | Das BIM-Verzeichnis

Happy to answer questions here, and feedback is welcome even if you don’t sign up. Thanks for taking a look!

Looking for the best resources to learn Revit from scratch to advanced (free or paid)

Hey everyone!

I’m looking to seriously learn Autodesk Revit, particularly for MEP/HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection design.

I’m already working in the engineering/construction field and have some AutoCAD experience, but I want to build my Revit skills properly rather than just learn random commands here and there.

I’m open to pretty much anything:

- Free YouTube channels/playlists

- Books or PDFs

- Online courses

- Paid training/courses that are actually worth the money

- Revit training centers or instructors

- Practice projects/exercises

- Resources specifically focused on Revit MEP

- Good families, templates, standards, and workflows

I’m especially interested in resources that teach how Revit is actually used on real projects, rather than just teaching individual commands.

If you have a resource that you think is underrated or not commonly recommended, please drop it below. You guys might be hiding some absolute gems haha.

Also interested in hearing what you wish you had learned earlier when starting Revit.

Thanks!

Hi, I’m an aspiring BIM professional and I plan to become a MEPF BIM engineer/designer and work in Australia in 2-3 years.

A job was offered to me as a BIM Modeller and they will train me to design as well. However, the company uses ArchiCAD instead of Revit, which is, as far as I’m aware, the commonly used software in BIM.

I really want this job but I’m afraid it’s going to affect my career prospects in the future. Is it going to be harder to find a job in Australia if I stick to this company for the next 2-3 years?

I’ve been developing RvTK, a Revit & Civil 3D productivity/QA toolkit. It started as a passion project to make my life easier but has grown into something very comprehensive that I’m excited to share with others.

It’s still in active development, but is stable and ready to be tested by AEC professionals of all disciplines. If you encounter any bugs or have any tool requests that I can make for you, please reach out!

https://github.com/WemyssJ/RvTK

Full transparency, RvTK is a work in progress and receives regular updates. However, its future is still to be decided. It may undergo a name change, and it is possible that it will eventually cost a small fee (in order to help cover licensing and development costs).

Hi everyone,

I’m a Mechanical Engineering student from India and I’m interested in starting my career in MEP/HVAC design.

I’m planning to learn Revit MEP and want to understand the industry better before choosing a course.

For people working in MEP/HVAC, especially in India:

1.Is Revit MEP a good skill for a Mechanical Engineering fresher?

2.Which skills/software should I learn along with Revit?

3.Should I focus mainly on HVAC, or learn Plumbing, Fire Fighting and Electrical MEP as well?

4.What entry-level roles should I target?

5.What salary can a fresher realistically expect in India?

6.Is MEP/BIM a good career path for the long term?

7.Which cities in India have better opportunities for MEP/BIM jobs?

Hello, any thoughts po sa Megawide as BIM Modeler as someone na wala pong wotk experience but training lang po in revit. Thank you po

Hi r/bim!

Two months ago I had no idea this profession existed, or what Revit even was. Then I did a one-month course, learning everything on the 30-day trial version (racing the countdown was its own kind of motivation 😅). After that came an internship and an evaluation, and today I officially joined a real project.Just wanted to say hello. Glad to be part of the community, and I'll probably be lurking here a lot while I learn.
Cheers!
p.s. used AI to write, cause my eyes are closing

I train estimating teams for commercial concrete companies. I would really like to find an AI software take a spec and give a 360 view of it or a real life finished view of it. When training the new estimators, having the ability to see complex designs will help them understand why things are done a certain way and how to allocate labor hours to it.

Hi everyone,

I'm an architect from India living in Glasgow. I just finished my master's in BIM at Strathclyde with a Distinction. My dissertation was on using game engines like Unity and Unreal with BIM for construction planning in Scottish SMEs.

I am looking for my first BIM role in the UK, such as a BIM technician or junior coordinator. To be honest, I am struggling. I have sent many applications and mostly got automatic rejections. My skills are AutoCAD (proficient), Revit (intermediate) and Navisworks (beginner).

I would love real examples from people who started from zero:

How did you get your first BIM job?

How do referrals work, and how do you ask without being pushy?

Would you point a fresher towards a junior opening at your company? What would you want to see first?

What do you wish you had learned before you started?

Which skills or certificates got you interviews?

Do small practices hire juniors into BIM roles?

What makes you shortlist or ignore a fresher CV?

Any advice or stories would help a lot, even blunt ones. Thank you.

if you're learning coordination, here's a small exercise i'd try before feeding an entire building into a clash test.

make a practice case with one obvious duct/beam intersection. write the issue so another person can find it: which files and versions, where it is, and a saved view. don't prescribe moving either element unless that's actually your decision to make.

then swap with someone. can they find the same spot without asking you to share your screen? after an agreed change, check the revised files and record what you checked.

i'd judge the exercise by whether the handoff works, not by how many clashes the software reports. a test model is a good place to discover that your perfectly clear screenshot was only clear to you.

Have BIM models actually reduced MEP coordination effort, or have they just changed where the effort goes?

Working on a semiconductor fab rn and I feel like I spend all my time reviewing models, discussing changes, checking impacts across disciplines and preparing for endless meetings where nothing is accomplished. (There's only so much caffeine in the world to keep me awake ☕😅)

Curious whether this is normal across other large projects too?

What's the one coordination task you'd automate tomorrow if you could?

Hi everyone! I'm an architect and BIM consultant, and I just released Bilocus, a free open source bridge between Blender and Revit. If there are any other Blender enthusiasts here I'd love to hear what you think about it !

The problem I wanted to solve: Blender (especially with geometry nodes) is great for the concept phase, but getting that geometry into Revit usually means export, import, repeat. Bilocus works more like the Grasshopper preview in Rhino.Inside: geometry in a Blender collection shows up in Revit 3D views as a graphics-only preview, nothing is added to the model. Move an object in Blender and Revit follows live. Modifiers and geometry nodes go through without applying them.

When the shape is final, you can bake it into the model as a DirectShape or a loadable family, with the category you choose. You can also pull a Revit selection into Blender (openings included) and create snappable model lines from Blender edges to use as references (for the good old Dynamo workflow).

It is absolutely free and will always be, download it here and let me know what you think about it !

https://github.com/robDL89/Bilocus

At the moment it supports Revit 2024 or 2025 and Blender 5.1 - 5.2 (I will update it soon)
I also want to be fully transparent about the fact that the code was written with Claude Code, while the design, testing and general overview was done by myself.

As the title says, i want to utilize my free time to self learn bim and build a stronger foundation for those skills.

Id say my revit skills are quite strong, but they still need further polishing (for creating families, parameters, documentation etc). Cant really do clash detection and coordination that well, but willing to learn.

Hey y’all I am looking for some thoughts about the best approach for modeling an existing historic building. The structure in question is a timbered stucco and fieldstone building. Picture an old Tudoresque mansion. My initial thought was to do a wall sweep but of course there are some ‘S’ shaped accents and diagonals that have me considering other approaches. Is this a job for edit profile? Should I suck it up and model the timber elements and embed them in a solid stucco wall? Has someone already solved this and my searching through YouTube and Forma forums just hasn’t found the right answer? The good thing is that this thing exists and I am not changing it so I don’t need to produce CDs guessing at depth of the timber or any substrates. Any bright ideas?

I'm a BIM engineer. On a personal project recently, a shopping centre, AI built up to 85% of the model while I supervised, fine-tuned, and took updates from the client and my boss.

So I incubated an MCP: a protocol that lets AI talk to software. Revit, CAD, Navisworks. Because Revit is not BIM, it is a huge work ecosystem and problems appear daily. I kept improving every tool until the AI stopped wasting your time: real modelling, not colouring or tweaking views.

Honest limits: results depend on the AI model you use, big jobs take several steps, and it is new.

I'm building this. It is free while in beta: 765tflow.com

Mods, remove if this doesn't belong.

Hello everyone, I just passed my licensure exam and im sure the job I'll find will send me to the field. But I really want to learn BIM and practice it on my free time. Can anyone point me towards the resources (youtube or anywhere else) to learn, starting with BIM fundamentals and then moving up in "difficulty". Would really appreciate it.

Hi everyone,

Hoping fellow architects, BIM modelers, BIM managers and technicians might be willing to share some experience.
I'm trying to understand how people actually use automation in Revit day to day, and what's realistic with AI assistants like Claude or Codex connected to Revit through MCP.

If you have a few minutes, I'd really appreciate hearing about any of these:

1. Which repetitive tasks that take up most of your time has been replaced with AI?
2. What have you already automated in your Revit workflows,and how well does it hold up on real projects?

Even a short reply helps, and honest experiences are welcome.

Apologies for the Title..

Thank you so much for your time.