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Allow non urgent warnings to be turned off.

Allow non urgent warnings to be turned off.

Revit automatically warns me when lines are not going to be joined in a sketch (think model in place item sketch) or drafting view.  Not needed - it kills efficiency - there should be an option to turn it off.

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dbobber
Advocate

that and moving structural items.. we already know revit will delete the dims.. 

ankofl
Advocate

We can write a small add-in that catches the notification event about the impossibility of connecting lines in the sketch, and neutralize its notifications. Thus, no warning will pop up for the end user, it will not distract the user and slow down the design process.

nmarcelis
Advisor

@nate.haynesthis is the same as using your car with a warning light, sooner or later your going to have a problem.

okozlovskiiLEEPN
Explorer

"Can't keep elements joined." ok "The room is not enclosed." ok "Tag is outside of the room." ok.

 

It is, ironically, infuriating to make any revisions in Revit (short for ReviseIt). I have to constantly claw my way through hundreds of warnings and alerts when I do literally anything. Is there a Revit workflow where you see zero alerts? I'm pretty sure it's not a thing. 

 

I know you can't keep elements joined, I just unjoined them to attach them to something else. I know the room is not enclosed - I'm changing the layout. I know the tag is outside of the room - I just moved the room to another location, and I'll move the tag next. Leave me revise it in peace, Revit!

 

Please, PLEASE add an option to auto-dismiss or disable alerts. Flash them on the screen if you must, just don't make me stop what I'm doing to click OK every single operation. I hit OK more than any other menu item!  If you are concerned about people nuking the model, restrict access to autodismissal and have project admins decide who gets this privilege and who doesn't. Or give us a choice of which warnings to see: I'd immediately disable the three warnings I mentioned above and keep only the one that appears when Revit wants to delete something (I have no clue why) when I move something.

 

Now, excuse me, I'll go dismiss a hundred more warnings as I'm dragging the model through early SD. 

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ryan_smallWFRFG
Contributor

Bump!

100% we should be able to disable certain warnings. Some are completely inane (walls will be unjoined, rooms to be made redundant) and disrupt workflow. 

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