Save Windows Layout 2019

[Anonymous]

I am happy to see that Revit finally integrated windows layout abilities (2019), allowing for moving tabs around easily. The one problem is that I can no longer use Palladio X BIM Layout, which increased my productivity by letting me set my preferences for size of the main window, and bouncing the view I wanted to work on into the largest open window (while keeping the layout intact). 

My suggestion to the Revit Development team is to create a save windows layout (similar to what exists in many of the Autodesk products & in almost all other 3d modelling software) so that way I can use the layout that works best for me without having to drag windows around every single time I want to adjust. The window layout would remain the same, and a button to move the current view into the largest window (left or right) would exist to be able to switch easily between major views. For anyone confused by this, see what Palladio X BIM Layout does in previous versions of Revit.

free Palladio app: https://apps.autodesk.com/en/Detail/Index?id=5858157174730080822&appLang=en&os=Win32_64

[Anonymous]

I feel the same way! Some of my coworkers always maximize the view and like to switch between views. But I really like to have some of those views open at the same time and I could quickly jump between them. 

Please bring the old view feature back! 

[Anonymous]

Autodesk provided a way with Revit 2019 to organize the views, group them, tile them in in our preferred way to suit our workflow, etc. Sounds great. So far so good if you like to work in tiny windows.

However, if you like or need to work on a bigger window, you maximize it , right?, work on it and most likely expect to be able to go back to that preferred view layout that you just grouped, organized and rearranged, brace yourself for a big disappointment. BOOM! Everything is gone.

When you tile the views back, they will be in a different location and if you had grouped them, you will now have even smaller windows as there are more windows to tile. Not good at all.

Please finish the new View Tabs feature by making Revit remember the view tabs layout or adding a way to save such layout.

When you you select "Last Viewed" for starting view, you would also want to see your preferred view tab layout or at least be able to load it.

Please also bring back the double clicking to maximize the view and the Ctrl+TAB and Ctl+Shift+TAB to move quickly between recently opened views.

As it stands now, the new View Tabs is slowing me down considerably and making it too hard to work on different projects where the views have the same names due to office standards. It is even worst when I open two versions of the same project and I have to copy elements between views that look the same and have the same name. You are bound to make mistakes.

[renan.jose]

So there is no way to save the last layout of the tile windows ? I mean, the position of the 4 views that i selected last time i worked on the file ? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Excellent point, Roberto!

I tended to use the app with one very large window (the window I was working on) and a series of small tiles on the right that I could glance at to make sure nothing outrageous happened in 3d or section. Not particularly to work in those small views, but just as a quick reference. Also, having that visual allowed me to find views fairly quickly to work on. When attempting to fly between multiple views or even projects, not all names are as easy to quickly identify, as most company naming standards are very long in order to find projects using the windows folder tools, making the tabs concept more of a chore. Even allowing a setting to change what the tabs are named (such as view only, or only the first 6 letters of the project then the view) would be helpful.

Renan,

Sadly no. Revit has an automatic way of retiling that makes little to no sense as far as working with it. Every time you have one view expanded, then click retile, it does not go back to how you may have organized the tiles before, it goes to the Revit vanilla standard. 

If anyone here's any expansion on this topic, please feel free to drop it on this thread so anyone searching for a solution can obtain one.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

is there anything out there to make my windows work like the palladio x bim win layout add on did ? this new way is really slowing me down ?

[Anonymous]

Superdrafter,



Unfortunately Palladio X Bim Win add on is not available for Revit 2019. See below the answer from it creator.



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