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More speed for Revit selection inputs

More speed for Revit selection inputs

It seems to me that the current settings of how selection works in Revit must have been done by one young Sheldon Cooper. Very good theory, yet no practicality in operations.

E.G. ESC to finish selection. ESC to finish command. After finishing editing commands like Move, Rotate, items remain selected (!?, just why??). Multiselection enabled by default (press ESC to finish selection!).

All these are dragging Revit execution speed down, not the internal speed of Revit, but the number of commands inputted by user per minute. 

 

By reducing/optimizing the number of user inputs, we could increase the overall speed, just by:

-Right-click to finish selection (instead of ESC)

-Right-click to finish commands (instead of ESC or click in empty space)

-Automatically deselect item(s) when command is finished

-Single selection by default + press SHIFT for Multiselection (instead of Multiselection by default + ESC to finish selection)  

Time is money, so make Revit faster by making the users faster.

 

3 Comentarios
CFNBen
Advocate

I would argue there is very little benefit to Right Click over ESC. It still requires 1 click from a user just depends which hand. I personally have my hand on the keyboard at all times with easy access to the ESC key and would prefer it over the right click function as I would like proper right-click options when I press that button on my mouse. 

That being said if this could be an option you have to opt into I wouldn't complain.

Again deselecting items when command is finished should be a user preference option as I find it very unhelpful when I am trying to do multiple things to a selection of elements. Again, my hand is ready to hit the ESC key at all times.

 

Unless I am completely misunderstanding you, single selection is the default. When I want to select multiple elements I have to hold the Ctrl key to do so. How does it work for you?

 

None of the suggestions you put forth are particular time savers in my opinion and so should all be opt in options if at all.

ipselute
Advisor

@CFNBen : ESC is a relic from the 1980s. It was never meant for the regular user/usage. It was meant as an emergency stop for high-load processes gone wrong. As it (still) is today. If you like to ESCape every other minute, that's totally fine by me.

I would use ESC to STOP a Dynamo script when generating thousand adaptive panels, but i would not use ESC to end some mere simple selection. Somehow, it just seems wrong to me.

CFNBen
Advocate

@ipselute 
I mean if you want to use a different key then that's fine - I'm not sure the argument that "the ESC key is old" is a reason to stop using it?

 

You're literally suggesting we use a different button at our fingertips. Let's not pretend this is some revolutionary change. Like I said, if it's an option I'd be fine with it but I'd prefer that the efforts of the Revit production team work on items which will provide more time savings to be honest. 

 

Can you comment on the quote below from your original post? I don't understand. As I said - for me, single selection IS the default. I have to hold Ctrl to select more than one element at a time.


@ipselute wrote:

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-Single selection by default + press SHIFT for Multiselection (instead of Multiselection by default + ESC to finish selection)  

Time is money, so make Revit faster by making the users faster.

 


 

 

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