Revi Family Browser - missing link in OOTB Revit

[johnevans]

So, why can't Revit do this OOTB?

Easily manage your Revit content with the Naviate Family Browser - YouTube

[barthbradley]

Huh? "Missing Link"?  What are you missing exactly?  Sounds like you are looking for something that doesn't exist and you want to know why it doesn't exist?  Surely, I'm misreading.   

[johnevans]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjVUmiCA16Y

Revit Family Browser. This is a missing link in Revit. Should be in the base product. Other software has this, why not Revit? I know Autodesk has made a pathetic attempt to do this, but nowhere near a slick as the function in Naviate.

[barthbradley]

Yah, I'm still unclear. You are showing us an Add-On that is a lot like the Load Autodesk Family tool found on the Insert Tab.  Is that the "missing link"?  Load Autodesk Family?  You don't have it? If so, what Revit version are you using? LAF is new.   

[johnevans]

R2023. Yes, I know about LAF, and a big laugh it is! I can't drag and drop families from LAF directly into my model file, I have to load them first then add them to my file from the Project Browser. I can't switch views when the LAF window is open because it is a modal window, not non-modal. It does not show me the children of the family type selected, it does not show me the family parameters of a selected family. I can't select a folder on my PC or a server/mapped drive to access my own or company's families. Naviate's Family Browser does all this and more. All-in-all LAF is yet another pathetic attempt by Autodesk to deliver something users want/need, but only a half-hearted attempt at that.

[barthbradley]

So basically, you are venting frustration. Is that about the size of it?  FWIW: this is a User's Forum. The complaint department is down the hall on the left.  It's closed today though.  President's Day.  

[johnevans]

No not a complaint, more like an observation. Things like this is what prompted the Architectural profession in the UK to write a letter of complaint to Autodek's CEO a few years back. LAF is not fit for purpose, period. Companies have to spend additional money sourcing third party tools that do the things they need, things that should be in the base product all along - especially when one considers the extortionate price Autodesk charges for it software.

If this is the wrong forum for this topic, I'll post to a more appropriate one. But I wouldn't suggest LAF will do the job, it doesn't.

[barthbradley]

You ought to post on the Ideas Forum.  See if your idea gets grass roots support. If it does, then maybe Autodesk will take notice.  

[johnevans]

I might just do that 🤔

[ToanDN]

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@johnevans wrote:

Naviate's Family Browser does all this and more. All-in-all LAF is yet another pathetic attempt by Autodesk to deliver something users want/need, but only a half-hearted attempt at that.

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Use Naviate add-in then.  Show them peasants using vanilla Revit family browser what they have been missing.