Hi, there is a new exchange format on the horizon. It's called "Structural Analysis Format" (SAF). It has similarities to IFC (SAV) is however written in table format. So you can open, read and modify it with Excel.    I'm pretty sure your developers are aware of that format. I just want to express my wish, that it would be nice if Revit could also implement the import and export of that format.   Best Regards Lukas Show More

Please see a list of items that I think need to be addressed in Revit regarding structural analytical model. They are listed in order of importance that affects our company...... Allow Revit’s modify tools to adjust the analytical model Make sure this doesn’t cause connected nodes to move Make sure this doesn’t cause connected nodes to move Make sure this doesn’t cause connected nodes to move Trim/Extend single element Trim/Extend multiple elements Trim/Extend to corner Mirror Pick Axis Mirror Draw axis Offset Provide an option to unconnect nodes that are currently connected based on graphical selection Provide an option to add nodes to any analytical member along its length….. Currently a user cannot add nodes to an analytical model, and in order to add rigid links between two members, nodes are required. This means I cannot add rigid links between two members at midspan or anywhere along its length if they don’t currently have nodes along its length and only have nodes at each end….. Provide an option to select a vertical analytical member and force it to be 100% vertical just like the physical column has a vertical column feature..... This would help when aligning analytical columns with beams that accidently rotate out of plum....... Provide an option for nodes to be added between intersecting members that are at different elevations or even better would be to add rigid links between crossing members that are at different elevations/levels..... The feature to add nodes at member intersections at different levels is so a user can add rigid links between members where they cross each other but are on two different levels. See below image for example.... I need the floor joist that cantilever over the blue highlighted SIL beam to be connected via rigid links...... which means I need to add nodes to each member at their intersection locations even though they are at two different elevations because the floor joist sit on top of the SIL beams and need to add rigid links between these two members at their intersecting location in the vertical direction..... Revit example RISA structural model example showing rigid link between joist and sil beams Provide users the connection rules that the analytical automation tool is using to adjust the analytical model as it creates the analytical model....... and give the user the ability to modify the connection rules depending on what members are being selected to be added to the analytical model at any given time…. Currently this tool does a horrible job of making adjustments to the analytical model correctly as it creates it and users have no way of making adjustments to the rules it is using to make adjustments except for specifying a distance and selecting member adjustment priorities……. Example…. I may have two floor joist that are close together and are parallel to each other, but their ends may be further away from the a perpendicular beam that their supposed to be connected too..... And if their end nodes are closer to each other than the perpendicular beam that they need to be connected to the software moves them together and sometimes doesn’t even connect them to the perpendicular beam as shown below. So I would want to specify that the automation tool only allows members to be lengthened or shortened to create a connected node and not adjust the members laterally at all when ever i select the floor joist to be added to the analytical model......   I would love to receive beta versions of these updates as they are made to test them out.   I need these updates/improvements as soon as possible and I listed them in order based on importance and what items I thought were more critical to improving our structural workflow, time, and effort. I am currently loosing money on every structural job that I have started with Revit 2023. I have lost a few thousand dollars and had to consistently call clients and push back deadlines already this year (and we are only in February) because of the amount of time I have had to spend dealing with these issues I have presented above and need these issues fixed asap.   I would also like to be on contact with the actual software engineer that is making these changes so we can maintain constant communication while these improvements are being made.   Thanks Show More

It would be great if we could have the option where we could filter reveals in some way which are modeled in the wall so that we can do some formatting with them like changing their colors. Show More

Would love to have cable tray be able to accumulate quantity of wires (thinking of Cat5/6 wires specifically). Perhaps enable 'analytical connectors' so that if I create a family that has a data connector, it could be 'analytically connected' to the cable tray that the wire will run in, then as the cable tray gets closer to the IT closet, it would have a higher number of wires. Perhaps also add the ability to include a quantity of more than one data connector in a family (like a power pole that could serve 6, 8, or 10 cubicles, user just types in that qty of data cables). Show More

Presently Analytical Connections can only occur between an equipment and a pipe. There are occasions where being able to 'daisy-chain' multiple pieces of equipment together without a piece of pipe between them, specifically Fin Tube radiation which can have multiple segments along a wall, or they form an L shape on two walls. Please enable Analytical Connection to work between two pieces of equipment. Show More

Like conventional shape handles for instance parameters, angular shape handles would be nice if there's an angular instance parameter within a family that changes the geometry of the said family.   An example where this could be used is the attached L-shaped form (generic model family) which has an "Angle" instance parameter between the two wings/legs that specify the angle at which they meet. Show More

Revit printer to ask for saving location before printing process starts Show More

We often get IFC-Files from different disciplines. The IFC-Files hold Information about the Building components and the materials used in each component. For Instance an IFC Wall will show the material name of the Layers. Now the Problem is that I have made certain Hatch/Patterns for the cut view of each material in Revit and these Hatch/Patterns will not be displayed by the IFC walls, because there no way to map these Materials. Ideally there would be a mapping tool to map 3000+ materials, and maybe sometime later a default Hatch for material categories, if the exact material name cant be found. Show More

Maybe this is fixed in V23 but I doubt it. When I make dimension drawings I need to have it associated to the floor shown. If this was not caught during modeling, connections break (somewhere, happy hunting on that). There is no reason any system should fall apart because the reference level was changed.   Show More

Greetings to everyone,   Is it possible to implement a workflow to set up loading plans out of (analytic) loads on elements? It would be a very good feature, especially in collaboration with Sofistik and other computation programs.   Kind Regards     Show More

Instead of having to add thousands of unique parameters in a family just to get different results, there should be an option to manually input the desired value if none of the conditions are true.     As an example, I want a waterfall countertop family where there are options for two legs or one leg and the option to have everything be the same thickness, just the legs to have the same thickness or make everything different thickness.  So a formula would have the IF statement at first and if the overall thickness option is checked then use the universal thickness.  If you only want the legs to be the same thickness then it will pull that parameter for leg thickness.  If none of those options are checked then that is when the value field should be open to unique values.  This is just a simple example but having this kind of feature would open so much for parametric Revit families.    Hopefully this all made sense.  Show More

I would love to be able to tag Analytical Spaces/Surfaces. Show More

Is there any way to compare and extract differences between two objects that are supposed to be identical, and yet they are not ? 2 beams have the same properties, are located between similar walls, but the beam-wall joins are not identical. One join doesn't cut the beam at wall face, and the beam overlaps the wall. Cleaning the join doesn't work. Neither Align, nor Trim/Extend.   Show More

We often make energy load calculations and use Revit in our Workflow for this.  Because of the Data Exchange between Revit and our third Party software this can be more really cumbersome. What we really miss are: - Surface heat transfer coefficients - Combined U-Values for parallel running Walls. Walls often get so complex that it is much faster to draw the walls parallel than creating lots of compound wall types. Nevertheless the U-Value is only calculated for that specific Walls "layer" and not the whole wall construction. Show More

It would be very useful to have the option of “tagging” the framing members with their type name in the 3d view while the view remains navigable via the wheel/cube/mouse. This would be helpful for updating/editing framing member sizes in areas of complex framing. Show More

When grabbing the end of a sloped pipe in order to decrease or increase the length of it, the slope of the pipe automatically becomes Zero. The pipe should keep the original slope instead. When drawing sloped pipe branches in the horizontal plane with a small slope, the first pipe in the branch after the connection pipe is always created automatically and always has another slope than the specified slope. These are just two out of many Sloped pipe issues. I could create my plumbing network twice as fast if these issues where fixed. Show More

hello I think we need to add graphical design to show how this facture really work, to make it easier to understand the factor and how its work    Show More