I have attached a screen shot with a typo.  It is the "Model Upgrade" dialogue box. Show More

When creating a variety of Title block types in a single title block family, it would be useful to be able to either have dimension controls on revisions schedules, or visibility parameters so you can move the schedule around, based on a vertical or horizontal title block on a page. by using equations, I've made A1 landscape with 2 different nested title blocks, vertical, and horizontal, unfortunately, the pages cannot align due to restrictions on revision schedules in title block families. Show More

Minor annoyance, but once in a blue moon ToolTips will float over my witness lines and dimension strings and hotspots.  In the middle of an operation, needing to zoom/move/wiggle around to get the tooltip away from something I need to see or click on, is SUPER annoying.  It would be super awesome if the tooltip could float out of the way in these situations. Show More

While you can stuff this away under the 30' tall stack of folks who wish you would place more emphasis on Mac compatible products, consider your own fix rather than relying on 3rd party.  I understand there are many that use Revit, et al, with Boot Camp or Parallels + Windows, without issue.  From my experience, they are typically those with permanent legacy IT guys (old guard) that advise against a Mac migration because they don't know much about Mac, and you don't support Mac in a primary manner (and cost).  Is there not an in house VM program you could develop that reduces the large pain in the rump of needing to purchase ($$), install, coordinate, fix, patch, cuss, and then delete once you give up and are so frustrated with AutoDesk that you consider writing them off forever?  I have ZERO need for a VM, ZERO need (AKA avoid like the plague) for Windows, and the only programs I would like but can't use on my Mac are yours.  As such, overkill does not seem a hyperbolic term for needing to install all this sub par (from a user perspective) space hog setup to try and learn your products.  The firms I've worked for all use Mac, the universities I have attended/teach at use Mac, just the engineering firms we coordinate with use PCs.  As such, it would seem an extremely lite combo of VM + OS that doesn't support anything except your products could be made by Autodesk for Mac folk.  With all of the R&D cash you blow on lesser versions of your own products for the Mac OS, could you not fund an Autodesk VM that seamlessly integrated your products in one happy space?  With all of the advancing integration between your products, it would seem there is an opportunity to design the perfect exclusive sub-environment that can be installed on ANY machine.  The sub-environment platform would be the only multi-OS pain in the rump on your end.  I'm not a programmer, and I don't know the specifics of making that a reality... Show More

I noticed it today and wondered why it was not possible to use the symmetry tool on invisible lines while editing a titleblock. Show More

Assemblies are hugely helpful, but there is a small contradiction that makes them annoying.  A typical assembly can be created by grabbing objects and assembling, adding and subtracting later just like a group.   HOWEVER.   If I have something like a curtain wall that is part of a group, I cannot easily select the CW components outside the group to make the assembly.  If a CW were not grouped I would just throw a selection box around it and filter to the mullions and panels.  The selection box doesn't work like that for a grouped object UNLESS you're inside a group - the paradox here is that you can't make an assembly while inside a group.   THUS:   _ 1: Allow easier selection of objects outside the group, OR _ 2: Allow a group to be grabbed and objects within filtered so I can make my assembly, OR _ 3: Allow creation of assemblies while inside a group (though I personally don't like this), OR _ 4: Find some other way to make this easier.   PRECEDENT   AutoCAD allows two modes of group selection, "ON" for the entire group and "OFF" for components.  Handy feature for this case, no? https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-982051E0-36EA-40B7-98EB-A8D0F5AC2D21-htm.html   Show More

Default Wall Constraint settings are defined by the Project Template wall constraint settings at the time of save.   A lot of effort is spent re-setting the wall constraints to the 'same' (but different from the default) settings every time a wall is placed in any given configuration. We all agree that modifying the Project Template to get different wall constraints to stick is not really a viable option (which would not affect the current project anyway - only new projects based upon the Template).   If I am placing walls on the first floor (default setting) in the morning, but then come back after lunch to place walls on the second floor, every wall I place on the second floor has to have the wall constraints reset, each and every time. If by 5pm, I am building the foundation walls, which have a common T.O. Footing constraint, but which also have numerous T.O. Foundation offsets, not having to reset the wall base constraints each time would be a blessing.   Would it make sense for Revit to change this parameter to allow the most recently used wall constraint settings to define the current 'default' settings, so that as we build walls, at any given moment, the constraint settings 'stick'?   Brilliant idea, no?   ---   While Autodesk is at it, please relocate the 'top' of wall constraints to be located above the wall base constraints in the Properties Palette, so as to be a little more intuitive, e.g., "the top of the wall is above the base of the wall."   Thank you! Show More

Question: Why are the wall 'base' constraints located 'above' the 'top' constraints in the Properties Palette? This is thoroughly non-intuitive. Why would we locate the 'base' above the 'top' in the Palette? Is there some 'special' logic for this? I adjust both top and base constraints during any given wall placement/configuration (as these settings always resort back to 'defaults' rather than remembering my most current constraint settings - can this be changed in the future?). And, needing to look quickly to the palette to adjust the constraints, I am forever confused by this upside-down configuration. Surely, the top should be at the top, and the base should be below the top. (Perhaps one imagines that we begin by building the wall from the base upward to the top, thus the first choice reading down the Palette are the base constraints - whoa!) Thank you in advance to any Jedi who may be able to shed light on this. In a future release, may the 'Top' constraints be relocated to be above the 'Base' constraints in the Properties Palette? Show More

It be amazing if you can some how create a way to copy constraints with a group or an assembly or any copying form. An if the copying the assembly or group an so on the specifications don't meet at least allow you to modify them to keep them constrained in the new place you copied.  Show More

Hi All,   I would like to have an option to export a Model in Place Conceptual Mass Family from a Project into its own family file. As far as I know this is not possible at the moment.  Non Mass Model in Place families can be exported if you group all elements and go to Save As -> Library -> Group, this however, does not work for Conceptual Mass. (not the point of this write-up, but in my mind, this process also should be simpler, a direct Save As would be ideal)   The reason this is quite important for me is that I regularly need to model a Mass within a project as part of the design development and host adaptive elements on it later. When I want to do different options of the same facade/roof, it's quite important for me that I can switch between different Mass families. My current workflow consists of exporting my main model into AutoCAC and then importing that into a New Conceptual Mass family and then modeling the Mass there, deleting the CAD and then loading the Mass family back into the project. Streamlining this process would surely be a welcome update for many people working with Conceptual Mass.   What I would Ideally like is to be able to Save As a Family when I am in Edit mass Grey-over within a Revit project.   Thank you for you time and consideration,   Jan Kocjan, PLH Architects, DK Show More

Hi All,   This is my first dab at submitting an idea to Autodesk Revit.    In my workflow I have encountered an annoying feature when I work with Pattern Based Curtain Panels and Conceptual Mass grids.   Conceptual Mass grids seem to be created so that they are always oriented to the longest side of the Conceptual Mass Plane. This create problems for me when I model Facades with sloped roofs. I use the Pattern Based Curtain Panels because they allow me to cut my panels easily - something that the regular curtain paneling doesn't allow me to do. Grids are sometimes created in the orientation I want, and sometimes they are not. This then creates problems when I model a Pattern Based Curtain Panel, because the panel family does not allow me to set a +-90deg orientation. One option would be to allow rotating of the grid within the family.    When I place Pattern Based Curtain Panels on my UV grid on a Conceptual Mass, I am presented with options to either Flip or Mirror the panels on the grid. I would like to have an option to either:  1 - flip UV grids (ideal) 2 - Rotate Panels checkbox similar to Flip/Mirror 3 - Rotate grids past 90deg 4 - Rotate the pattern grid within the Pattern Based Curtain Panel family (least preferred)    Now, you might say I can use Dynamo to do this. I know, I've nearly finished the script that will flip my UV grids, I just haven't had the time to finish it, test it and implement it in my workflow yet. The reason I wrote this idea is that I think using Dynamo for this is unnecessarily complex, time consuming and is just another workaround, when the options I suggest, which could be implemented into Revit directly, would streamline this process into a couple of clicks, easily accessible to the less advanced users.    Thank you for your time an consideration.   Best regards,   Jan Kocjan, PLH Architects, DK Show More

The Sample files that install with Revit have been around for quite some time. In addition, when we install Revit using the US Imperial settings, we still get the Metric samples. It would be nice to have some fresh sample files that are in US Imperial Units.   While you are at it, can you ensure that the coordinates align between the sample Architectural, MEP, and Structural files?   Thanks Show More