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I've been using Revit for the past7 years. I've a professional certification from Autodesk too. After doing some research on the interesting subject, I can see that both programs has cons & pros. On the other hand, many people mentioned Vectorworks as a powerfull competitor. I'll surely keep digging this up. I'm still fresh to learn a new software if it's worth it!
Building Information Modelling have been more popular than before. As my graduation project was talking about BIM, I have used Revit2013 rather than ArchiCAD because the program was easier to use even though both had the same functions. Even though both programs are great but for engineers we will need an easier program to help us in design and building a model. So i would use Revit2014 as I got an experience by using it :)
I prefer ArchiCAD for many reasons. First of all; the element handling is very easy. Becasue of the pet pallet; you can manipulate your element onscreen without the need to go into a pop up menu. Now; on R17; the detailing has become quite the exitementbecause of the new priority based connections feature. I could go on speaking about the benefits of modeling with ArchiCAD, but I thinks it's best if you could try it for your self and see.
I studied and familiarized myself with the two programs. I have more preference for Archicad over Revit. My opinion is that Archicad is more intuitive to the architect, faster, lighter with regards to computer processing, and has more freedom to shape objects with its morph utility.