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finish implementation of View Range keyboard shortcut

finish implementation of View Range keyboard shortcut

The ability to assign a keyboard shortcut to View Range is a welcome addition to 2017. However, the implementation is not quite all that it could be: if you have a Plan Region selected, the VR shortcut will bring up the main View Range (of the View, not the Plan Region), and if you select a View on a Sheet, the VR shortcut does nothing at all! Instead, the shortcut should bring up the View Range for whatever is selected (if applicable), or for the current view if nothing's selected.

 

Keyboard shortcuts should work as a replacement for the graphical tool/button in ALL situations (not just some, with obscure rules for when it will work). Until then, we will continue to use VR for View Reference instead (which is used more often anyway).

 

http://autode.sk/28ZBV5t (thru 1:45)

 

NOTE: this is a re-posted (and separated) idea from:

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/better-implementation-of-view-range-keyboard-shortcut-and...

 

and this could also be handled by the implementation of this idea:

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/keyboard-shortcuts-for-all-buttons-in-properties-panel/id...

3 Comments
lionel.kai
Advisor

Some progress has been made in 2018: when a Plan Region is selected, the shortcut now brings up the Plan Region's View Range properties (instead of the main view's properties, as in 2017). However, there is still unimplemented functionality:

  • when editing the boundary of a Plan Region, the main view's properties open (instead of the Plan Region's) - THIS IS DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS!
  • when a View on a Sheet is selected, the shortcut does nothing (instead of opening the properties)
lionel.kai
Advisor

Actually, the "progress" that was made in the 2018 version was actually just to fix the functionality that was BROKEN in 2017! Being able to assign a shortcut to the button on the contextual tab was already a part of Revit in 2016 (and before - just noticed from a feature request I submitted in 2014 for this functionality).

lionel.kai
Advisor

UPDATE: fixing the keyboard shortcut functionality while editing a Plan Region boundary is now a change request: Revit-View-Range-shortcut-does-not-work-when-editing-a-plan-region

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