Hi,
I would like to propose Autodesk remove the AI assistant released in 2027. In our brief testing, the assistant is laughably bad and lags far, far behind other 3rd-party plugins or LLMs using MCP. Some examples:
It was told to color rooms by area (blue for rooms below 500sf and red for rooms above 500sf). It added one color scheme per room, each scheme named as the room's GUID, and each one colors all rooms blue. This was run on a test model with 300 rooms, it put one entry in the undo list for each room.
It assumes units in feet, even if the project units are metric. If you tell it to use different units, it will respond that it's using the specified units, but ignore them when changing the model.
It does not accurately change the correct parameters when asked. In one test, it input values into "extrusion start" when asked to input to "extrusion end"
Most of the queries of model elements are just...a way to burn tokens instead of making a schedule (that's already in our template). It can also create views and put them on sheets. We've had free plugins to do that for 15+ years that are deterministic, and we used them years ago to set up our template and have very little need to do this on a per-project basis.
It cannot place correct furniture in rooms or lay out apartments like say Finch does. It doesn't provide functionality like Testfit. It doesn't replace any of the tools in pyRevit.
This is why I am proposing Autodesk remove the assistant, or at the very least allow BIM managers to disable it with a UI. For anyone looking to disable it firm-wide right now, you can simply rename or delete the .addin file in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit 2027\AddIns\Assistant
