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Hi Neerav- Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I think this type of work flow could be quite useful as an alternative to full-pdf support. I would be willing to spend $9/year for such an add-in. An option to insert a PDF as image or .dwg would be very handy. Also, I would like the option to insert or link the .dwg file. Thank you,
Since this issue is marked as Under Consideration, I would not encourage you to develop a plugin or this. Now, since autodesk has many of the top 10 most voted items for Revit "Under Consideration" with no further announcement over the last two years, you may actually want to develop a plugin. I just depends how much you believe or not in Autodesk listening to their customers. so far they have a pretty mediocre track record in the Ideas forum seeing as they ignore most of the top voted ideas for many years or forever. I guess if they don't have it in the upcoming 2019 version coming out soon, it will be worth developing.
@Anonymous Thanks for your response. You mentioned "Also, I would like the option to insert or link the .dwg file." Is this in relation to conversion of PDF file to DWG and then inserting the generated DWG file or is it for importing any DWG file? I thought Revit could already insert or link to a DWG file. Am I missing something?
@Anonymous Good point! Any idea when does Revit 2019 come out?
Neerav- My reference to insert vs link is related to the converted .dwg file. Most of the time, I think users opt for linking .dwg files vs inserting to keep file sizes down and allow for refreshing the linked files as needed.
I would definitely support this add-in. We have asked this for years from Autodesk and it wouldn’t appear this feature would be coming in the next update. I would like to see the option to link/import a PDF as a PDF not a DWG conversion. Thank you!
I love your optimism sarsenault2CCSS! I don't have much faith that Autodesk cares at all about user suggestions. There are so many absurdly simple features lacking in Revit that haven't been addressed over the past 10+ years. They've clearly made the internal decision to outsource user-experience features to plug-in developers. Unfortunately, for us, that means more cost every month, but at least it offers work to entrepreneurial developers like Neerav.
Indeed, Autodesk has done a terrible job at responsive to the top voted ideas. For shame, they pretend to listen to customers but the software is full of fundamental bugs after many years and it does not align with architect's way of working. There is something fundamentally wrong with the way bugs are (not) being addressed and how customer's top request are being ignored for many years. I hope that firing 10% of employees got rid of a few rotten apples, but I feel like it probably just weakened a slow and clumsy beast instead. Autodesk, wake up! Read the top voted feature, read the complaints on the forums, talk to users, engineers and architects!
@Anonymous Now I understood your comment about linking vs inserting. What you said does make sense. You want to keep the file size down and refresh the link when the PDF file gets refreshed. One problem I see with refreshing the link is that technically, Revit is linking to the DWG file that was auto-generated from the PDF by the add-in. Revit itself will not know about the PDF. So if the PDF gets refreshed, you'll need to press "Insert/Link PDF" again. Is that a dealbreaker?
@Anonymous Thanks for your support! Unfortunately Revit API doesn't provide any way to insert/link a PDF directly. The only two options are: link/insert an image or link/insert a DWG file. You could achieve the same functionality as the add-in by manually converting PDF to image/DWG and inserting/linking to it. The add-in just saves you the manual effort. Is this a dealbreaker for you?
@RolyNZ From what I understand, there is no perpetual license for Revit 2018. It will stop working as soon as you stop paying for subscription.
it's pretty clear that they vastly over-estimated users' needs. As far as I know no one has been clamoring for layer control and snap-ability. I've just only ever wanted the **** program to rasterize the PDF and place it on a sheet. I still don't know why they couldn't have phased in PDF support (rasterization say, 10+ years ago because autocad has always had it).
anyway, it's the faintest glimmer of hope. still, I'll believe it when I see it.
These surveys are supposed to be confidential...... Also, pretty sad that it took 2 years for Autodesk to do this after putting it "under review" in 2016....
@RolyNZ, as far as I now, there is not perpetual licencing for Revit 2018, so if you are working in 2018 you have a suscription contract, even if you don't upgrade.
