Isn't it time to devise something a little more modern for patterns? Hard to believe that the 35 year-old PAT file format is still the "technology" of choice for this. Would love to see a modern pattern creator that could do any kind of pattern. Including: rectilinear, random, and especially radial. It is just silly that we have to use model lines and arrays or material hacks to simple brick arches or radial floor patterns.    A new pattern technology and editor please...  Show More

Give the project browser tabs for: views, legends, schedules, sheets,families,groups,links,assemblies. This would greatly reduce the amount of scrolling/collapsing/uncollapsing      Show More

1.  Ability to Tag Legend Components 2.  Ability to rotate Legend Components 3.  Option for "Floor Plan View" for Floors, Ceilings, etc. 4. Ability to Override Graphics, apply Filters, etc to Legend Components   Work arounds for these issues are too many, and leave too much room for error.  A legend should be representative of the items in your model.  It should have as much functionality as your floor plans do because it is meant to be a visual guide of the items in said floor plan.  MUST HAVE FULL FUNCTIONALITY! Show More

Integrate dual monitor compactibility within revit. No offense, but dragging the bottom of the programm border across both monitors isn't ideal.   Revit LT 2016 Show More

Let Walls attach to Stairs. Please!!! Show More

In general, I agree with this post (especially if we are speaking about railing edit tools): https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/railing-overhaul-resolution-of-limitations/idi-p/7085622   But for creating new railing I suppose will be better to kill existing tool and create rail model constructor. Why kill: - very difficult for newcomers - inflexible How railing constructor could be looks like: this is interface where user create a part (one or some parts) of railing system from prepared families and create rules for distribute these parts in railing system. In general, for railing system we have 4 main type of parts: straight section, arc section, inclined section and transitions - any of part must be tune in railing constructor.    For example: This is illustration of constructor viewport (but, exclude transitions, any part must be tune separately). For any position on the picture user choose the family and create the rules of placement. For example: family 7 set on the base of family 4, family 5 set in crossection of family 2 and family 4... After this, user create a sketch, where he chooses a type of part for any segment of sketch:  If length of segment on the sketch 1000 millimeters and type of part for this segment have a length 500 mm, then Revit generate 2 similar parts, if segment have 900 mm, then last part must be automatically cut off.   When railing system is ready, user get some tools for editing it: - manually replace any family in system or replace a whole part - change the position for any family - change the path for any rail, like this:   And of course, any family in railing system must be available in schedule and parts of railing system must be available in legends. Show More

So often we are left with powerful data within the Revit model that is not schedule-able nor available in view filters. The data is there, but we cannot use it, in what are supposed to be core BIM functions like schedules and filters. Why is it that we can access those parameters and parameters values through the API or Dynamo, but that Revit itself cannot? Makes no sense. Open the data floodgates please! Show More

there is something annoying that makes many of my colleagues create a "legend" phase for just for legend purpose.     For instance, we can tag material and layers on a wall composition , but why couldn't we dimension the overall width or even tag the typeMark of the wall?   who use only material tag?  Show More

Please dont let us draw another mass. Show More

Right now in schedules there is the possibility to change only one single value at a time, but very often we have the same elements which receive a new value for a parameter. It would be helpful if we could change this value for all of them at once and not need to highlight them in the model and then change the parameter value in the model. Show More

I would like to have the ability to use underlay with revit linked files as well as have total control over visibility settings with the linked file. Show More

Please, I hope can custome leader arrowhead. So we can more creative. Show More

In all Autodesk products, materials are used to indicate both materials and finishes. This is not ideal. In reality, a material is what a thing is made of and a finish is simply how it is, well... finished.   How about some examples: A wall is made of studs and drywall. These would be the materials. I would go to the lumber yard and buy studs and drywall to physically build this wall. But the finish is what I would apply on top of the wall to finalize it. This could include items like paint, tile, wall covering, paneling, wainscot, etc.  A floor is made of joists (metal or wood), plywood or metal deck and concrete. But it can be finished with: carpet, tile, clear coat, paint or even hardwood.    In the real World: You cannot build a wall out of paint or tile. You build it from brick or drywall or studs, you finish it with paint or tile or wall covering. You cannot build a floor out of carpet or vinyl tile. You build it from wood or concrete, you finish it with carpet or bamboo.    I would like to see a Finish object separate from materials. And/or hierarchical materials. So finishes could be their own separate thing, or they could be a property of materials. I would prefer they be separate and referenced to materials so we could "mix and match". For example right now if I have four paint colors and planed to use them on varying surfaces like drywall, wood and concrete block. I would need to potentially repeat these "finishes" within the types of each category. Or I could define a separate material for the paint and then apply it as its own layer in the wall assembly (which is not ideal) or use the paint tool to apply it as an override on another layer (also not ideal), or define several variations of each "parent" material, such as: Drywall - Blue paint, Drywall - Red pain, Drywall - Green paint, Wood - Blue paint, etc. This is also not ideal.    And in the case where a finish schedule is required, it is very difficult to achieve without manual hacks and silly work arounds.    So please. Consider separating material from finish. And in the process, we get closer to the original intent of Revit: to build things in the software as close to how they are really built in reality as possible.    Thank you.  Show More

When elevated, curved surfaces do not show the full length of the wall.  Moreover, graphics become skewed.  We would like to be able to wrap an elevation tight to the curvature of the wall so that the elevation appears to be a flattened out curve.  You could do this by offsetting a line from the curved wall and picking that line as the elevation path. Show More

A color as Solid Fill  and 2nd a pattern.   Concrete: Grey and the concrete pattern,  Show More

Hi,   please let us copy legends. It is so **** anyoing. I know and understand that i cant have the same legend on one sheet but i dont want to paste the legend on the same sheet again. I want to paste the legend on another view at the same spot. Its a shame that i cant align legends or views on a sheet. I know there is the guide grid but you are not able to just pick the outline from one view and align another view to it. But i post that idea in another thread.   So back to topic. Let us copy/past legends like we can do it with shedules.   Greetings Lennart Schlueter Show More

Idea - is an interface where user could be creating rules for room finishing. In room finishing constructor user create different types of room finishing rules. Then room finishing type must be working as a key parameter for any room, if user will match room finishing type to room. And in room schedule user get areas for wall, floor and ceiling finishing and get for example length of skirting boards. How it is could be look like: In first user select arbitrary room and launch room finishing constructor (for axample from propertise pallete). In interface of room finishing constructor, user see the cube (or more complex form) of room and determine finishing for any surface: 1. floor finishing (user can split it and create ratio for different type of finishing) - material and thickness 2, 3. wall finishing (user can split it by height of walls or by elements, for example by windows borders or by different walls) - material and thickness 4. door slopes (in room finishing constructor doors located in nominal position) - material and thickness 5. window slopes (in room finishing constructor, windows located in nominal position) - material and thickness 6. skirting board - material and profile type 7. ceiling finishing (not visible on the screenshot) - material and thickness In Revit model user has only rooms with attributes without real finishing or skirting boards, but also is possible to make a button which generate all these elements automatically using room finishing type.   1. button for running Room finishing constructor or for choosing the type of room finishing (possibility choosing the type of room finishing could be available also from schedules) 2. list of parameters (value of any parameter depend on Room finishing type)   Show More