Dear Autodesk - Revit LT Attribute Managers -
Could Autodesk please update 2022 Revit Lt with a patch to allow the import or link of PDF's. This is a very very very common requirement on all projects and it is unprofessional and cheap for Autodesk to require Lt users to have to convert a simple pdf to a raster image just to be able to link or insert a pdf. The conversion process usually leads to loss of image quality and in addition, the added time it takes is EXTREMELY frustrating. Is someone going to purchase the full Revit version just to be able to link pdfs - N0, but it certainly doesn't leave a very good impression of Autodesk as we scramble to make lesser quality and more time consuming conversions. Small <11x17 pdfs are fine to scan and import as a raster image but they are not as clear as the original pdf and then the larger format images such as full size sheets of surveys, consultants sheets, etc., can also be run through file converters but the quality is also lost and the TIME consumed - should be a simple and easy process as allowed by the full version. I think of the Autodesk individuals and teams and leaders and the probable many white board sessions that pondered and considered what was in and what was out of the Lt version and I cannot fathom the pettiness of those that decided it was out. In the words of our now "Great Leader" - "Come-On-Man".
Thanks,
Bill Gregory, AIA, Los Angeles
@billgregory wrote:
Exactly the point Barth. Can the Autodesk management correct this obvious flaw?
It's hardly a flaw. It's not like the ability is there and it doesn't work. LT does not have that option. You bought a limited version of the software. If it's so important to you, why didn't you buy the full version.
BTW, this is a user help forum. New feature requests belong in the IDEAS forum where Autodesk will read them. They don't read most of the threads in this forum.
@billgregory
You can't buy a FORD FIESTA then complain that its not a Shelby GT500!!!
Revit (the full version) is a product and Revit LT is the LITE version of it. Even though they share the first name, they are two different products.. That being said, the only obvious flaw in this situation is buying something mindlessly without being well informed about it.
They email you every week? Seriously?
@billgregory wrote:
Every week, I get emails from Archicad, Chief, etc. asking me to try them out.
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AutoCAD LT allows inserting PDF's. There's no reasonable excuse for AutoDESK not doing the same with RevitLT. Persuading AutoCAD LT users to cross over to Revit but then withdrawing one of the most basic (yes, even light weight users) functions is a nonsense. Requiring light users to pay seven times the price just to enable them to trace over a PDF as they were able to before on AutoCAD LT (most vector generated pdfs have snapable points and lines) is annoying at best and most likely an oversight that needs correcting. Bearing in mind how long it took Revit to enable generation of PDFs (pretty standard in nearly all software these days), I am not filled with optimism.
@drobson wrote:AutoCAD LT allows inserting PDF's. There's no reasonable excuse for AutoDESK not doing the same with RevitLT.
Why are you responding to me?
First off, they are different programs. That alone is a reasonable "excuse". Also, they don't have to have a reason that makes sense to you.
@drobson wrote:Requiring light users to pay seven times the price just to enable them to trace over a PDF as they were able to before on AutoCAD LT (most vector generated pdfs have snapable points and lines) is annoying at best and most likely an oversight that needs correcting. Bearing in mind how long it took Revit to enable generation of PDFs (pretty standard in nearly all software these days), I am not filled with optimism.
Your opinion isn't going to change anything here in a user help forum. In fact, it's quite flawed. Why aren't you posting someplace where it might get some traction?
You sound more like someone with buyers remorse than someone with a good suggestion.
Asking questions here is a crapshoot…
it is a user “help” forum but you often get condescending a-holes waste their own time just to tell you how stupid you are and, in contrast, how smart they think they are and must let you know.
Once in a while, you’ll get lucky and grab them (the same a-holes) on a good mood and they will actually help, though.
I have the same problem using Revit LT.
I wish Autodesk would listen (unlikely) or one of these smart asses would spend some time trying to help.
Good luck to you!
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