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It sounds to me like Jay is under the impression that he is your supervisor rather than your client and that he owns you a little bit.
I would suggest trying very hard to diversify your income from clients a little so you dont rely on his work as much. Thats a bad position to be in quite frankly because as others have said, he should respect that you know what youre doing and have the expertise to do so. Im sure we have all had clients like this in the past and all agree that they are a nightmare.
Do you have a contract in place specifying a number of free revisions before you charge extra? In the past when a problem client has come back ive put in that sort of clause so that when they want tiny little changes i can say to them, i can absolutely do that but itll cost an extra $XXX for another round of revisions. They often realise that moving a chair 2inches to the left isnt worth it. Or they will spend the time to collate all of their feedback into a single round of revisions saving you both time.
Going beyond AI it seems the reason he wants AI to do the work is because he thinks it would save him money. So If thats what he wants then you should agree on a charge per apartment (or per sqft perhaps if theyre inconsistent), set a time limit per sqft and then work to a quality that you can achieve in that time. If he isnt happy then you explain that if he wants higher quality then you need more time.
Or you spend some time doing r&d yourself into workflows that can speed up your output to make the bulk of the work easier on yourself in the long run. Is there a modular approach you can take in any areas? Could you spend time creating some parametric assets or rooms using something like railclone and its splineID tools to position furniture against walls or for kitchen cabinet arrangements etc. Are there scripts out there to help already for things like mouldings and kitchen cabinets? These sorts of things could save you time and hassle and can be reused in future for other clients too and if you save yourself time, you can either pass that saving on to the client depending on how youre billing. Or you can get the client their work faster with less of a time cost to yourself.
If youre doing 200+ apartments its worth looking at your workflow and seeing where you can semi-automate things with some upfront work even if that r&d time is unbilled.
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I used it today to write a little script that organises revit imports into layers by whatever BIM property the user selects from a dropdown and it works great. I find that if you manage to get it working you can then feed the script back into chatgpt and ask it to look at code practices, efficiencies and commenting and it tends to clean things up quite nicely.
I would definitely look into getting the same monitor, simply because it will be easier to calibrate them and same monitors always work well together. By the way, I was also looking into buying same monitor - how is it? Would you recommend it?
I’m not a monitor expert, and this is my first quality monitor, so I don’t have much to compare it to. That said, my experience has been mixed:
1) As a 4K monitor, text and icons look very small by default. I had to set Windows scaling to 200%, but some programs, like Max, still display certain icons and text too small—for example, small text in the Slate material editor.
2) The default brightness (50%) felt too low, so I had to increase it to 100%. This forced me to also increase contrast to 100%. I’m not sure if this is a common practice and I'm worry it affects accuracy.
3) The contrast isn’t quite what I expected, though this may be typical for IPS monitors. I guess I'm too used to the contrast and vibrancy of phone screens. This monitor uses IPS Black technology though, which I've read is a good thing. By the way, Contrast is 2000:1
3) Reflection handling is poor (RTings.com mentions this). The screen reflects the large windows in my office, which is annoying. During midday, when a lot of light comes into my office, the screen gets quite dull.
Hope that helps!
