Revit LT, missing from ribbon

[gccdesign]

There are a few things I have found missing from the ribbon as I go through a tutorial, not sure if they are missing by design or some bug or something.

1.  There is no massing & site tab, so I can't to a topo surface.

2.  Cannot do shape editing of a floor or roof.

3.  In wall types, there is no column for if a wall component is structural or not.

4.  If Revit is open, no project file loaded (or there is), if I try to open a project from Windows Explorer, nothing seems to happen.

5.  If I get an .rfa file from Search, it will not open in Revit. From the tutorial I went through, it was expected to open in an editor.

Can anyone shed light upon these issues?

Thanks,

GChapp

[LisaDrago]

So you are finding the differences between Revit (or Revit Architecture) and Revit LT.

The LT version of course  is a striped down version of the full seat of Revit Architecture.

For Questions 1 & 2 - those Tabs are not available in LT version.

Question 3 - Structural information is also not available in LT version.

Question 4 - I am not sure what you are doing here... You have revit open - are you using the open command and nothing happens?

Question 5 - when you open a family you are not in the editor? see attached image? What are you seeing - can you post an image?

LD

[gccdesign]

Got it on 1-3.

#4.    Most programs will open if a file that is associated with that program is opened from Windows Explorer. For instance, if I double click on a .dwg file in WE, it will open up in Autocad.

With Revit LT 2014, if Revit is closed and I double click on a .rvt file, Revit will open with that .rvt file loaded. But if Revit is already open and I double click on a .rvt file in WE, nothing appears to happen. See "Won't Open" image.

#5.    Using Seek, if I find a .rfa file I want, according to the tutorial I was following, I can choose a file to download, tell Revit to open it in Revit, and it should open that .rfa in the family editor. But that is not what happens here. If I tell it to open in Revit, I click OK, then I returns me to my floor plan I was in (in Revit). The component was not loaded.

Now if I tell it to save the file instead, it will, and I can then go load it from where I saved it in the HD. This might be related to #4 above, where Revit is not opening files that Windows is sending to it (or however you would describe this). See images Search 01 - 02.

Someday I'll learn how to do screen videos like they use on YouTube.

GChapp