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Improvements to Cursor Focus

Improvements to Cursor Focus

I often find myself having to redundantly click on things in order to edit them. Two examples are coming to mind.

 

 

When editing type properties, autofill suggestions pop up. I can keep typing text, but as soon as the suggestion box pops up, the cursor becomes invisible until I click in the field I'm editing a second time. On top of that I can't use the Home or End keys until I've clicked inside the box again.

 

 

I also have difficulties when editing conduit or cable tray elevations. If I click on a conduit the green modify | conduits row appears at the top. The Middle Elevation is already highlighted, but typing numbers doesn't work. So I have to click in the box once to un-highlight, then click again to re-highlight so I can replace the text. In addition to that, typing delete to clear the field and type a new elevation just deletes the elevation from the Middle Elevation drop-down, immediately swapping in a different elevation. If this isn't the elevation you wanted, you may suddenly get errors like "no routing could be found" or "The conduit has been modified to be in the opposite direction or insufficient space to create the required fittings. "

 

 

These time consuming nuisances seem like they could be easily remedied by some basic UI improvements.

 

 

2 Comments
manuel_stallnig
Participant

Another UI annoyance: When moving the cursor between project browser, properties or the main view, the scroll wheel affects only the thing last clicked in. So when intending to scroll the browser, you first have to click into it or else you still accidentally zoom in or out the view, and vice versa. For some reason when moving the cursor from properties to browser, it isn't necessary, but vice versa it is.
If clicking in properties to get it scrolling, often it accidentally activates editing a value, which sucks. Yes, you can click and drag the scroll bar too, but what do we have mouse wheels for.

Susana_Duarte_LMSI
Collaborator

When selecting views/sheets or schedules with control key to add more, he always revert back to the first selection in the list, and I have to scroll down each time to continue the selection (when doing it from to to bottom) (tested in Revit 2026, and I believe in 2025 too - in the new project browser tabs). Could be a quick fix in the UI behaviour, I hope.

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