Price the tools.
Count the whole job.
Revit is one line in the budget. Add the people, hardware, storage, support and shop resources needed to turn the model into useful work.
Build a monthly and project estimate using current Canadian-dollar quotes. This tool covers modelling technology and the fabrication costs you choose to include. It is not a complete construction estimate, live price feed or accounting depreciation calculation.
Your project budget.
1. Select the items you need. 2. Enter your Canadian-dollar unit quote and quantity. 3. Choose the billing basis. For rentals or labour, enter total days or hours for the entire project.
Blank prices are unknown, not free. No prices are prefilled. Annual rates are full annual amounts, not monthly equivalents. For materials, enter a price per unit and the required project quantity, including your chosen waste allowance.
Select items to begin. No budget has been priced.
Software
Hardware + data
Support + people
Scanning + field
Fabrication + shop
Your entries remain in this page session. They are not submitted to BIMTA or saved after refresh. Print before leaving. Use general cost descriptions, not confidential project or supplier details.
Know what the totals mean.
- Project cash commitment: monthly charges × project months, plus full annual periods required, one-time purchases, and entered usage. An annual licence for a three-month project still counts as a full annual commitment.
- Average per project month: that commitment divided by the project duration. It is not an invoice schedule.
- Recurring monthly equivalent: monthly charges plus annual charges ÷ 12. Purchases, project materials and usage charges are excluded from this figure.
- Shared equipment: new purchases count in full. To budget existing equipment, enter your approved monthly internal allocation instead. Do not also enter the same purchase, rental or labour allowance elsewhere.
- Included and excluded: use consistent before-tax CAD quotes. Sales tax, finance costs, currency conversion and contingency are excluded unless you add them as separate quoted allowances. Deposits, refunds and payment schedules are not modelled.
Example only: a fictional $1,200 annual licence plus a $3,000 workstation over three months totals $4,200 committed, averaging $1,400/month. The licence’s recurring equivalent is $100/month. These are arithmetic examples, not supplier prices.
Specify the work.
Then specify the machine.
There is no single “highest-performance standard” covering modelling, rendering, large federations, scan processing and fabrication. Ask the supplier to demonstrate your representative workload and quote a supported configuration.
Modelling + coordination
Record Revit and Navisworks versions, model and link sizes, simultaneous applications, required export tasks and current peak memory use. Compare task completion times, not just processor branding.
Memory + graphics + storage
Price enough RAM for the full working set with headroom, a GPU suited to the actual visualization workload, and NVMe storage with room for caches and point clouds. Confirm upgrade capacity, cooling and warranty.
Shop + field delivery
Confirm scanner accuracy and registration checks, machine-controller compatibility, material tolerances, calibration and the authorised fabrication release. Include operators, maintenance, training and support response.
Autodesk requirements by Revit version ↗
Storage planning should include model caches, scan growth, retention, access permissions and a tested recovery method. Confirm the project’s hosting and data-location requirements with its responsible team.
Get the price.
Check what it covers.
These are source links, not endorsements. Some prices require a configuration, account or formal quote. Subscription prices were not consistently readable in the research, so no uncertain amount has been prefilled. Confirm CAD currency, tax, renewal price, term and quote expiry.
Specialist tools + hardware evidence.
The trade should see the benefit.
When modelling supports automation and prefabrication, compare the full investment with accepted shop and field results. Track repeated detailing, checking time, errors, scrap and installation effort. A lower licence price or a faster machine alone does not establish a better overall result.