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Project Browser Graphics - Color Coding

Project Browser Graphics - Color Coding

I would love to see some sort of color coding in the project browser to make it easy to quickly differentiate between sheets, floor plans, families, etc. 

A simple color blocking behind the texts could be of benefit.

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guillermo4JEUL
Enthusiast

This is a great Idea. But unfortunately Autodesk doesn't care about our ideas, this is just an illusion to make us believe. But at the end they do whatever they want or whatever is convenient for them to keep themselves on top of the market. Have you see the numbers in this forum? Right now there are 7,499 ideas Gathering support, 1,519 archived, and only 101 implemented. And the funny thing is that some of those implemented ideas have less than 10 votes, and you will see ideas gathering support with +500 votes, so go figure. 

 

But, anyways, I hope they implement this and others great ideas that users had posted here.

Anonymous
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@guillermo4JEUL 

Lol totally true

kromcad
Explorer

Exactly!  This has been requested soooo many times but the big boys just pretend they don't get it.  The browser is a place where things should be organized.  It's such a mess.  There was another similar request elsewhere and Autodesk closed it saying there was not enough support for the request.  It's a user-interface design issue (my 7 year old will understand that categories of different things should be identified clearly).  We should not be begging Autodesk to keep improving basics.  Boy, I get frustrated with these guys.

 

They should at least:

Make category text much larger & bold.

Give the use the option to color the categories as Tom suggested.

 

Kiwicodes did a great plugin about five years ago but it's not available for current versions.

richardjagger
Contributor

We desperately need some colour coding. Drives me mad scrolling backwards and forwards through the project browser. 

GraphOnto
Contributor

Yes, please enable conditional formatting functions for the Project Browser. You also could allow formulas to govern the conditions. This way not only could you enable quick visual recognition of the organization, you may be able to automate some error/issue checking in the organization.

This, along with quick search capabilities and jump-to-category (such as sheets, families, etc) initiated via keystrokes.

Please and thanks!

jamieXPQP8
Participant

In most projects, views (even with filters and drop-down menus already provided) can become super difficult to navigate. It would be nice to be able to add colour, either manually and/or by filter to help keep track of views. For example, it would be nice to organize all my details by plan or section or scale as allowed currently but then additionally have them coloured in each list depending on their location (main building, extension, exterior, site). 

KentBurns
Advocate

I agree generally!  the project browser has barely changed in the 15years or so I've been using revit. It's about time it got a bit more user friendly for large projects! Split the Views, Sheets, Families into tabs? If the Familes had it's own tab, you could see them having thumbnails etc to make browsing the project easier, and could provide links to office libraries as well... 

GHASEM_ARIYANI
Advisor

Hello Autodesk Team

 

Please Improve PB for Better Control and Organization.

In large projects, PB becomes very confusing. It is better if we can change the color, font, background of each discipline into PB. for example below image

 

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GHASEM_ARIYANI
Advisor

Hello @anielson 

 

Thanks for your sharing Post. 

ipselute
Advisor

@GHASEM_ARIYANI: This is a highly requested feature , in many  ideas and forms. The least Autodesk could do is creating alternating-color rows,  like we can do in Schedules.

GHASEM_ARIYANI
Advisor

Hello @ipselute 

 

Yes, you are right.

 

We hope to see these changes soon

@anielson Those are a lot of similar posts! What do you think about combining them?

GHASEM_ARIYANI
Advisor

@anielson  Thank you for listing the similar posts. Combining these really gave this topic a boost!

richardjagger
Contributor
I totally agree. Having each category in a customisable colour band would be amazing. Come on Autodesk brighten up our days with some colour!
elzohry2007
Collaborator

That's awesome

elzohry2007
Collaborator

I totally agree.

It could help make the project browser more user friendly and useful by allowing us to set different colours for each floor plan title and other things under the project browser, that would speed searching and filing and also help the user to sort the sheets, floor plans, sections and elevation by the colour label.

 

Thank you

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