Jarom,
Do you honestly think that your continued negativity and cynicism will get you responses on such issues?
We have discussed this point numerous times so far in the forums, please use the seach button before posting yet another rant.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish here, beyond ceiling cutting, that cannot be accomplished using Face-Hosted Families. As an MEP guy, does the Architect allow you to manipulate the Ceiling in any way?
Cutting would require a level of interaction between Linked Projects that's just not supported today. It really opens a pandora's box of issues, so we are purposely taking our time with implementing a solution that does not fully solve this, among other such Multi-Discipline Workflow issues.
Cheers,
Kyle B
Sustainable Design Product Manager
I can comptely understand your frustration. Go search for "kyle bernhardt" on the AutoCAD MEP forum and you'll see my posts from when I was a customer.
I am not here to "prove folks wrong", far from it. I try to provide insight where appropriate, a solution if possible, and an honest response in all cases.
I'm simply saying that if your goal is to convey feedback on your experience, or get a technical issue resolved; a constructive, well-thought post will get a better response than a rant. Even better, do a search for previous threads on subjects before you post a new thread, you'll be surprised what you find.
If your goal is to express your anger with the program, rant away my friend...rant away. I can't think of a better way to express it...not sure what it accomplishes, but I can't fault you for it.
Cheers,
Kyle B
Sustainable Design Product Manager
Jarom,
It is unrealistic to expect us to respond to every question, especially if it has already been discussed on an existing thread, let's just set realistic expectations here. The whole point of these forums is for the user community to help each other, not have the product team answering every thread. That's just how it's structured here. The time I spend here is not showing up on any performance review, it's a personal decision I make, hell I'm not even working on Revit MEP anymore... The other members of the product team are quite dedicated to making Revit MEP a better product, they just do that internally, rather than here on the forums.
<steering back to the matter at hand>
As for the Ceiling question, yes I get that you guys are placing light fixtures. You can do that with Face-Hosted Families, even snap to Ceiling Grids. Does your architect allow you to modify the Ceiling Grid? If so, how do you manage that with your traditional drafting-based workflow? Do you need to cut the ceilings in order to issue your documentation?
Cheers,
Kyle B
Sustainable Design Product Manager