Snap/Ortho

[Anonymous]

Althogh I love Revit's automatic Ortho, is there a way to turn them off?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

type SO (snap off) while you are sketching any time you don't want automatic snaping. Or if you want it off all the time under setting snaps you have the same type check box that acad has for the diff. snap options.

[Anonymous]

How about the ortho?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

there really isn't an 'ortho'....you are free to move in any direction.
Some objects are 'constrained' to a plane, which can be toggled off by
clciking off the Constrain checkbox in the Options Bar while using Move or
Copy.


wrote in message news:4815054@discussion.autodesk.com...
> How about the ortho?

[Anonymous]

Great, thanks for the reply

[Anonymous]

Hi that's gr8,
however, I'm trying to teach myself how to use revit and complete my 3rd design studio project for 3rd yr architecture and want to know what and where the OPTIONS BAR is coz I can't find it and I'm about to screeeeeeeeam!!
thnx a mil if u can help,
regards,
Lizzy

[Alfredo_Medina]

The Options Bar that Scott is referring to is in between the ribbon and the view. It remains empty when no command is active. As soon as you activate one, such as Wall, or Move, etc., the options bar fills with pop up menus, check boxes, etc, relevant to the command that is active.

Alfredo Medina
info@planta1.com

[Anonymous]

I think I read somewhere that the Options Bar has been discontinued in
2011, and incorporated into the Properties window (palette?).

On 3/26/2010 9:24 AM, Alfredo_Medina wrote:
> The Options Bar that Scott is referring to is in between the ribbon and the view. It remains empty when no command is active. As soon as you activate one, such as Wall, or Move, etc., the options bar fills with pop up menus, check boxes, etc, relevant to the command that is active.
>
> Alfredo Medina
> info@planta1.com
>

--
Anthony Mason
http://dailyoccurrence.wordpress.com/

[Anonymous]

Options Bar still exists in Revit 2011

"Anthony Mason" wrote in message
news:6361628@discussion.autodesk.com...
I think I read somewhere that the Options Bar has been discontinued in
2011, and incorporated into the Properties window (palette?).

On 3/26/2010 9:24 AM, Alfredo_Medina wrote:
> The Options Bar that Scott is referring to is in between the ribbon and
> the view. It remains empty when no command is active. As soon as you
> activate one, such as Wall, or Move, etc., the options bar fills with pop
> up menus, check boxes, etc, relevant to the command that is active.
>
> Alfredo Medina
> info@planta1.com
>

--
Anthony Mason
http://dailyoccurrence.wordpress.com/

[Alfredo_Medina]

Anthony,

I don't know yet. I am waiting for my box to arrive in some weeks...

Alfredo

[Anonymous]

As Scott said the options bar still exists in 2011 but as in 2010 things are
moving off the options bar and finding new homes in other parts of the
interface, but some still remain.

--
Jeff Hanson
SME (Subject Matter Expert)
Autodesk - BIM UX
Manchester, NH


"Scott D Davis (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6361810@discussion.autodesk.com...
Options Bar still exists in Revit 2011

"Anthony Mason" wrote in message
news:6361628@discussion.autodesk.com...
I think I read somewhere that the Options Bar has been discontinued in
2011, and incorporated into the Properties window (palette?).

On 3/26/2010 9:24 AM, Alfredo_Medina wrote:
> The Options Bar that Scott is referring to is in between the ribbon and
> the view. It remains empty when no command is active. As soon as you
> activate one, such as Wall, or Move, etc., the options bar fills with pop
> up menus, check boxes, etc, relevant to the command that is active.
>
> Alfredo Medina
> info@planta1.com
>

--
Anthony Mason
http://dailyoccurrence.wordpress.com/

[Anonymous]

Ignor all info previous.  Goto  MANAGE, SNAPS (it looks like a unside down magnet).

Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Re Ortho - There is an ortho in Revit 2011.

It appears on th eoptions bar as "Constraints".

Will Johnson

University of Wolverhampton (UK)

3rd Year BSc Student

[Anonymous]

This is stupid.  2 pages of forum talk to find a solution to Ortho?  Revit sucks.  I really don't care if "it's the best thing out there".  It sucks.  It's stupid.  Autodesk wants us to pick up their slack at every turn.  Why do they even have a help section?  Whatever.  I'm done for the day.  Good luck everyone and happy new year to everyone but the Revit team at Autodesk.

[mikebZP76Q]

This thread is nearly old enough to get a driver's license, and still no real solution has been provided. The question of ortho snap clearly evokes the frustrating and inexcusable flaw in Revit where certain angles just can't be drawn. I have a situation where I need draw a diagonal line in elevation whose end point is 6 1/8" higher than its beginning point. So imagine a right angle triangle where the long horiz edge is 50' and the vertical edge is 6 1/8". It is absolutely insane that Revit 2022 CAN'T DRAW THIS HYPOTENUSE. When I try it snaps about 1' above, or a few  inches below, but never to the point where I need it to snap. And if an Autodesk gaslighter replies 'well why are you trying to draw it at those dimensions?' I think my head might explode.  

[mhiserZFHXS]

This can absolutely be done, and in multiple ways. Is this line in isolation, or is it in reference to other elements? The answer to that would determine the easiest way to do it.

[RSomppi]

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@mikebZP76Q wrote:

This thread is nearly old enough to get a driver's license, and still no real solution has been provided. The question of ortho snap clearly evokes the frustrating and inexcusable flaw in Revit where certain angles just can't be drawn. 

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I stopped using Ortho in AutoCAD was before I even knew Revit was a thing. Polar Tracking and OSnap tracking are like Ortho on steroids and Revit has the equivalent to both.

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@mikebZP76Q wrote:

if an Autodesk gaslighter replies 'well why are you trying to draw it at those dimensions?' I think my head might explode.  

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Good luck with that.