Touchscreen monitor?

[haydenwse]

Costco is a selling a system that has a 27" touchscreen.  Has anyone ever tried using a large touch screen for modeling in Revit?

[DarrenP]

revit isn't completely made for touch screens yet you probably can orbit and pan but thats probably it

you still need a mouse and keyboard for most of the functionality

[haydenwse]

Wouldn't you also be able to select commands on the ribbon?

[DarrenP]

should be able to

[rosskirby]

You could, but why would you?  Using a mouse and keyboard are going to be far more efficient than using a touch-screen.  After an hour or two of trying to use a touchscreen to model, you're going to be exhausted.

[octavio2]

I agree with rosskirby, I think that Revit and AutoCAD both requiring hand intensive laboring might not be exaclty suitable for the touch screen, in particular when the screen is located vertically in front of the operator.

[haydenwse]

I agree that for regular work flow the mouse will be much more productive.  I was thinking of it more as a teaching tool.  I do one-on-one Revit training and it is sometimes very difficult to get the student to find the correct item on the ribbon and it is not easy to run their mouse while standing next to them.  It would be very handy to just be able to touch the screen to demonstrate what then need to do.

[rosskirby]

I'm not an instructor, but I run into the same problem when I'm at someone's workstation trying to troubleshoot whatever problem they're having.  Generally, I take two approaches, depending on their experience level.

 - Hands-off approach:  Just talk them through it, explaining where the tools they need are found, and how to select/implement each tool.  This helps them learn the UI better, and helps me troubleshoot over the phone, since I can't always be on-hand.

 - Hands-on approach: Sit down at their station, work through the problem while they watch, then Undo-Undo-Undo until I get back to the initial state, and let them try it on their own.  They get to see how the problem is solved, and then have a chance to work through it on their own, which is more beneficial (to everyone) in the long run.

Anyway, it works for me, but with multiple students at one time, there might be a better solution.  Either way, I don't think a touchscreen would help, but that's just my opinion.

Also, something's wrong with the text editor, because I totally bullet-pointed those two methods to begin with, and now I've gotta go back and make it manual.

[nedwards9820]

I typically use a duo touchscreen laptop, and switch between two fingers for zoom/pan and a stylus for precision drawing in AutoCAD2105.  This works reasonably well (it could be better, particularly within block editing).  

The duo touchscreen works flawlessly for drawing in SketchUp.

I am learning Revit2015, but I can't seem to get pinch-to-zoom to work.  Are there some settings somewhere for this?

[2016.prd]

Would be great if you could use the touch screen on the ribbon for commands and the mouse for drawing?!

[chrisplyler]

Meh.

On a tablet or something, sure. But on a large desktop monitor? Reaching up to touch the ribbon tools would get old in about two minutes.

I can see a bit of value in the instructing use case, but still, you can just point and have the student move his mouse.