No. I think the option to set the background black was thrown in an early
release of Revit to appease AutoCAD users. However, Revit works much better
with a white background which was patterned after good old Clearprint 1000H.
The underlays fade just as if they were under a sheet of velum. Linework is
presented in final print form. Implementing a black background will require
you to change all the object styles to make things read well on the screen
and actually slow implementation. Also shaded views will look bad on the
white background and make final print color harder to judge
My suggestion is stick with the white. Then use color for just a few
selected objects. Revision clouds are a good example. I - like many other
Revit users - like to set these to red.
The screen icon will change with the task. The standard arrow is the default
which means you are picking or selecting things. When you draw, the icon
will change to a pencil. When you demo, the icon will change to a hammer.
Etc. Revit doesn't have aperture or pickbox so the whole concept of having
to make sure the object is selected at the edge of a visible line is
irrelevant. Go ahead and pick the white of an object. Also ortho is
irrelevant so 100% crosshairs like in R12 would be meaningless and just
clutter the screen. So AutoCAD crosshairs would actually reduce the context
sensitive feedback the user gets while working in Revit.
Good to see you on Revit, Brian.
"Brian Earsley" wrote in message
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> Is it possible to change the color of the temp dimensions to anything
other
> than a color I can't see when I invert the background colors? I am trying
to
> change the default settings to "look" more like AutoCAD (ADT) to ease
> implementation.
>
> Autodesk should really consider this with the next release, at least as an
> option. (they would sell more Revits faster) A cross hair vs. pointer
> option would be great! I'm ok with no command line. Most of the new CAD
> generation don't look at the old command line anyway (not very intuitive)
>
> Any feedback would be very appreciated!:))
>
>
>
> -brian
>
>