JTB wrote:
> Thank you Jeffrey, I think I understand perfectly and it seems to work fine
> this way.
No prob.
> BTW, I see that everyone (incl. me) wants to compare Revit commands and
> technics to AutoCAD's or ADT's similar methods. I think that the idea is to
> learn to do things in the "Revit way". Of course it is nice to be able to
> use the old and well tested tools of the oldest CAD software but the first
> thing I can see in these few days of using Revit, is that I have to forget
> my 15 years experience of AutoCAD because it is easier this way. Also we
> should give Revit a chance to present something new instead of adopting the
> existing methods of other programs because CAD software is not only a good
> GUI. I has to be a thinking tool...
I was like that too when I first started, and there are still a few
very minor GUI things from Autocad I wouldn't mind to see in Revit.
The Tool Pallet idea doesn't really apply, but I'd love to be able to
'float' the Design Bar & Project Browser over the drawings, with
semi-transparency and auto-hiding, like the tool pallets in Autocad.
When I used to teach Revit, I'd have people all the time wanting the
tool to be the same, and it was only when I got them asking themselves
as to why AutoCAD/ADT works a certain way, and they then relise that
there is no real concrete reason for why the AutoCAD way is 'right',
it's just what they are used to and what's grown over the years as
opposed to it being well thought out at the beginning, that they
started to think about things a little differently.
However I think you're dead-on about seeing what else they might be
able to come up with instead of mirroring AutoCAD/ADT. AutoCAD and ADT
are prime examples of what NOT to do with a GUI, IMHO, and looking
toward Macromedia or Adobe's wonderful, consistent, and well-organized
GUI's for inspiration I think would really make Revit sing.
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>>JTB wrote:
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>>>Something like WBLOCK of AutoCAD.
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>>There is a WBLOCK like command in Revit. Simply select a bunch of
>>stuff, and then make a group. You can then go to the File -> Save to
>>Library -> Save Group. Then you can save that group out to a separate
>>file, which you can then bring into other projects.
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>>You can also use the Transfer Project Standards tool to copy settings
>>& standards from one project to another (like the design center in
>>AutoCAD, but simpler). Simply open two Revit projects, make one active
>>by opening a view from it, and then go to File -> Transfer Project
>>Standards. It will let you pick the other Revit project you have open,
>>and then pick what you want to pull out of it to add to the project
>>you have currently open. This works with Template files too, so if
>>you've got some standards you made within a project that you want to
>>add to your template for future jobs, this is the vehicle for that...
>>
>>Jeffrey McGrew
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