Halt all Revit development for two years and rewrite Revit from the ground up with all hands on deck. - Multithread everything - Full native Open BIM / IFC support at the core - Better graphics engine, stream relevant model data to ram - Modern, adaptive and consistent UI / UX - Better data management internally and between projects, families etc. - Better / intuitive parameter management - Less restrictive modeling, no more reliance on reference planes for everything, add push/pull etc. - Better Booleans, seamless implementation of SUB-D and NURBS elements - Support for Windows, OSX, Linux as well as ARM CPUs built in - Better design options with branching - Real time collaboration. No more worksets, more object based locking of elements. - Support for VR / AR project presentation as well as for project management on site - Hirarchical coordinat system, switch of internal logic to metric - NO SUPPORT for messy legacy features / code Revit is not progressing in meaningful ways anyways because the tech debt of the past 20 plus years. So why add onto that forever, slowing development further and further? Support Revit "1.0" in terms of bug fixes etc. for a few more years but focus on 2.0 as the new, modern competitor that can keep up with modern AEC software approaches. Show More

A user defined revision cloud would be more that useful instead of that cloud Revit uses now. One with equal arcs. Show More

Say you have a considerable number of linked images, cad files in a project and need to know where they were used. I would look for that info inside the links manager. Currently there is nothing of the sort there. PyRevit's ListDWGs offers some functionality along those lines but is restricted to cad files. This idea is to offer the info where an image was dropped, preferably with some open linked file in its view. If said linked file is a 3d element just do what box select would do. Show More

In Revit 2025, the ability to retain a View Template assignment when inserting a View was removed.  Support has already confirmed that this was intentional, but I believe it would be preferable to have this ability added back into the Insert Views workflow.    It could be an additional checkbox option in the insert view dialog, or just automatic.  However, having the option would likely be best for everyone.  At the very least, it would be best that when a model contains a View Template of the same name, the inserted view would retain the assignment.   In my library setup we have many schedule views that are only inserted into our project models when they are needed, this helps keep the model less cluttered, etc.  My issue is that when we bring in a schedule view that has an assigned view template, the schedule view ends up in our model(s) with NO View Template assigned, and can then display in a manner not aligned with our company standards.  We are also trying to default our schedules to have a phase filter value of Show New, and the View Templates were the only way to achieve this default in the previous releases (R24-).   Instead of allowing me to help control the proper assignments from our standard schedules files, the current workflow for R25+ will need to be that a user will insert schedules and then have to remember to assign an appropriate view template to each (we have ~5 different view templates just for schedules).  From a user's perspective and a company standards point of view, this frankly sucks. Show More

I just realized that using BX on a selected level does nothing. This idea is to correct that. Found this in Revit 2025.4. So it may already be healed. Perhaps this is something that can be included in the coming release? Show More

Yes, you can always make a view template from an existing view and use that to 'copy' one view's settings to another. Yet having another view template will leave users with another thing to manage and keep track off. I remember a CAD application that offered a paint this view's stats to another button. So a bit like this idea in reverse. Well, shift-clicking might reverse the way the eye-dropper or pipette tool works. This could be added to vg overrides windows and/or the bottom button row of views. I think it would look good between the light bulb and temporary view overrides. The icon would not need to be done from scratch as the os's paintbrush tool already provides one. Show More

Right now (R2026), the selection box (BX) command leaves you with your selected object plus a foot or so leeway around it. It would be beneficial if this value could be adjusted. I am currently going through a floor plan with repurposed duct sections mounted above head height using a list of revit ids to deal with them one after the other. For each new one, I need to adjust the section box to encompass the appropriate level to allow for the MEP equipment family to be placed instead of the duct fragment (caused warnings because it did not have a system it belongs to). This idea is to maybe shift clicking (where did I see that before?) the box select icon and give discrete offset values for above (1'), sideways (1') and below (8').  Show More

I know one can use mass method to excavated but be handy to be able to excavated a toposolid with a slab edge  Show More

This image says it all. Right now, only the "Free End" option for leaders allows snapping to the endpoints of the leaders. This should also be a default for "Attached End".    Show More

Let me register the following wish from a customer from DACH region. Enable the control of steel connections individually by the VG override/ Structural Connections' subcategories. Currently the VG (Visibility Graphics) dialog/ Structural Connections' subcategories override don't work for sub-elements of steel connections. The display of these elements are controlled by the VG settings of "main" Structural Connections. The individual overrides of the subcategories, like for example the settings for plates, for bolts etc. will apply to independently created steel elements, not for those created via a connection.  Show More

For some reason I thought this went without saying, but when you select something via view, schedule or by entering a revit id, using BX to isolate that entity, you want to actually see this element. That is not so: If you pick your project base point in a floor plan and select box it, you are left with an empty cube - unless you had manually activated the visibility of the Site>Project Base Point category for your 3D view beforehand. The idea would be to consider having selected an element convincing enough to also show its category when BXing. Show More

Any tool that is available without a Revit file open should have a method to add it to a toolbar link on the Revit Home page.  So in the same manner as we can add items to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), we could also add those items to a "Home QAT".    For instance:  Content Catalog (primary purpose for this idea) User Interface Transmit model(s) Convert RFA to FormIt Worksharing Monitor Interoperability Tools Manage>Extensions panel tools Certain tools within pyRevit and other add-ins Manage Models tools Options Basically anything under the File tab that is available.  Make the File button directly accessible from the Home page.     If someone didn't want to have the Home QAT, they wouldn't have to use it, but having it available would be nice.  Have these settings available in either the revit.ini or in the UIState.dat file alongside the QAT data. Show More

There used to be an add-in tool that worked in Revit from versions 2010-2017 +/- and the tool was called Freeze Drawings.  This allowed you to take a "screenshot" of any 3D-based view, and it would transform it into a 2D Detail View without exporting to AutoCAD first.  It maintained the standard Revit linetypes, Thin, Medium, Heavy, etc, then you could easily "explode" this detail view for larger details.  This was great for showing flashing & building wrap interactions under the siding, etc.   Revit needs to find that old source code from the app maker, and integrate it into Revit as a standard tool.  Stop relying on AutoCAD, it's an antiquated piece of software that needs to be phased out. Show More

On very large projects it is useful to be able to see the names of the gridlines even when zoomed in. I have an idea to just include it in the dash, like this. Show More

When adding a new shared parameter to a project you get the full listing of what is available in your text file. The idea is to indent all parameters that have already been added to the current project. Or put them in parantheses. Or show them in italics. Or give them a colour. Show More

A lot of times I will start a command (like Component, Window, Door, etc.) and then realize I need to load the component I need.  This is not a problem if you have the library saved locally since you can click "Load Family."  We really just need a button next to it for "Load Autodesk Family."   Show More

When we open a Revit model using the standard File > Open dialog, the preview panel shows the Revit version in which the file was last saved. This is extremely helpful when working with multiple projects and different Revit releases, because we can immediately see whether the selected RVT file matches our current Revit version. However, when we use Insert > Link Revit and select an RVT file, the same preview panel does not display the file’s save version. Only the thumbnail of the model is shown. In many BIM workflows (multi-discipline teams, consultants, external links), we often need to check: Which Revit version was the link file last saved in Whether linking this file will trigger an upgrade Whether we should ask the consultant to send a model in another version Currently, to see the saved version, we have to either: Open the file directly first (which may upgrade it unintentionally), or Use external tools just to check the RVT version. --Proposed improvement Please add the “Saved in Revit Version” info to the preview panel of the Import/Link RVT dialog, similar to the standard Open dialog. For example: Under the thumbnail, show a line such as: Saved in: Revit 2023 or Saved in: Revit 2024.2 ** Benefits Faster decision-making when linking consultant models Avoid unwanted file upgrades during linking Clearer coordination in multi-version / multi-project environments Consistent UX between Open and Link Revit dialogs This is a small UI enhancement, but it would save time and prevent mistakes for many BIM coordinators and Revit users working with multiple versions every day. Thank you for considering this improvement.   Show More

On behalf of a customer from German let me register the following wish: Enable editing parameter values for linked elements in host model. The idea would be to be able to fill different values for elements placed by same links multiple time in the model. Eg a window from a link should show at parameter Location value: South in one position and Nort in a different position placed same link. An idea would be to edit this via schedules. Currently these values are read only, could be edited in the link itself or after binding them.    Show More

Hi!   For an organised layout, i currently have a lot of different tags in different colors for MEP systems. They each have another color for Supply air, Return Air, Supply Hydraulic cooling, Supply Hydraulic Heating,..   This creates a more efficient way of visualy connecting the correct information to the correct system classification. Esspecially if there are many elements on one plan.    Could Annotation Tags be Linked to the visual settings that are linked to a system classification? Currently I do this manualy as seen below. But it takes some time to change between annotation types.     Would be Awesome!   Bye! 🙂     Show More