Renumbering items, any type of items, needs Capital improvements. Renumbering should be smart, giving user options like: -renumbering all_but keep/maintain existing (numbers) -renumbering all_all new (numbers) -renumbering_merge duplicates -renumbering_renumber duplicates -renumbering_assign number(s) (individual or series by rule) Particular emphasis should be put on assigning individual and serial numbering : something excel-like numbering rule preview --> assign first number and let Revit guess numbering using simplest rule possible. P.S. No, i don't wanna do it in Dynamo. Dynamo shouldn't be an excuse for lack of essential options. Even the old Advance Concrete could do smart (re)numbering. Show More

When creating custom families from scratch often the reference planes in the standard family have to be stretched so that either their length or width are wide of tall enough to accommodate the geometry your about to make as well as the dimension parameters so you can keep track of what is going on.    Currently if you do this or add in new reference planes they are only the correct length in that view, if I switch to a left or right hand side view then the reference planes are all at different heights again and it slows down productivity re-setting these back up everytime you go in and out of this view.   Can we get reference planes to move up and down in tandem with the original view they were created in. If they are not in the correct place in a different view then the reference plane can be unlocked and pulled up/down/in/out to suit that view instead of having to adjust every single one of them at the moment?  Show More

Other than using a parameter assigned by a user (which could have user error by input) there should be an ability to assign spaces using a lookup table (similar to assembly codes) but used for assigning the function of the room.  Omniclass Table 13 could be an example or Uniclass Table SL. Show More

Please no more rebar shape codes ! Just make all rebars as freeform rebar. Allow users to create their own rebar shapes library (to reuse in their projects). Make an intuitive rebar creation interface like in Allplan or Tekla. I prefer to create my own rebar library / families and reuse it in my own judgement instead of searching 99 rebar shapes to find the best one. Revit cannot possibly cover ALL rebar shapes in the world. Certain shapes may vary from country to country according to local standards and norms. Just let the users run for their best skills (at rebar shaping). Make manual rebar modeling like in Advance Concrete, by following the formwork contours with proper offsets for (rebar) concrete cover. Show More

It would be nice to see the data collected on the clicks you make in an Autodesk software. I have used AutoCAD for a while, then recently switched to Revit. It's not the amount of clicks in Revit i'm so concerned about... but the amount of time in between the clicks that i would like to see the report on.   Revit is slow to process the things i'm telling it to do. If there's any advancement in Revit... it's speed. Show More

Schedules command name is very confusing to me. There is no time table possible in any Revit Schedule. Why the name Schedules? It is BOQ= Bill of Quantities or BOM= Bill of Materials. Also, these Schedules should have different templates for different types of materials, like Allplan does: Formwork, Rebar work, Concrete works/pours, Doors&Windows, Roofs, insulations, pavings, paintings, etc. Each type of schedules is a little different, requiring specific symbology and sketches. Rebar sketches, door sketches, window sketches, etc Show More

Copied post from the Navisworks forums that I was told to copy here by Autodesk support staff. Does anybody have any solutions/suggestions for how to deal with fabrication insulation when exporting to Navisworks for clash detection? As it stands when I export all the insulation is placed in its own category with no association to the pipe it is attached to or any levels. This hits me twofold. First it makes color coding the insulation with the appearance profiler impossible. The insulation does not contain any of the parameters the fabrication pipe does. I cant use the profiler to hunt for service names or abbreviations, so all insulation is treated the same. We've had to resort to giving all insulation a 50% transparency so that we can still see the insulation as well as the color of the pipe within. This is ok, but really not ideal when other trades still using CAD can pull the layer color for their insulation. (still waiting for the day we can do the same with our revit filter colors). The second issue is how the insulation is not grouped by layer. I love the revit export setting to export the entire project and automatically have the .nwc file broken up into levels. It makes clash detection grouping very easy... unless it has fabrication insulation. The insulation is not assigned a level, so it cant be grouped by level and I have to create .nwc files for each floor of my project in order to group for clash detection. This is the real time killer of the two. (see snip) Does anybody use any workarounds for these issues or do you think we can ever expect more parameters to be available out of revit when exporting to navis?   I'm going from Revit 2018 > Navisworks. AutoCAD is never opened, Revit is just reading the fabrication parts databases used in FabricationCAD, ESTMEP, etc.   In Revit the insulation is bound to the pipe, its not a selectable element, it is part of the pipe. When you select the pipe you also get the insulation. So I don't understand why when exporting into Navisworks the two are separated completely and the insulation loses all the parameters that would be used with appearance profilers to color pipes.   For now I've gotten around it with some dynamo scripts in that re-write fabrication parameters to custom shared parameters on the pipe. Those shared parameters stick to the insulation after exporting to Navis and I can filter them. It's working but its cumbersome and involves using dynamo which not everybody knows how to use. Show More