This suggestion to improve the program is nothing grand or as far as I know, difficult to implement. This is merely a humble and modest request to possibly make things easier to use. One of the biggest difficulties in using the program, is memorizing all of the exceptions and finicky little rules built into the program. I would recommend an audit on the program to make everything easier to use. Go in, figure out every menu command, all the different ways to rename a thing, the innumerable number of visibility variables and all the other little items, and make them all function the same way.
Here is a very short list of examples, and I ask the community to add more:
- Slope edges on roofs slope up from the defined slope edge. Slope edges on floors slope down
- You can make a pitched roof in the roof tool by sloping 2 edges. You cannot make a vaulted ceiling using the same method
- Materials have way too many variables. I would recommend a dumber system with every material has the same variable. I still have not wrapped my head around how the program deals with these things, but a more straightforward system where I can say turn off an image map easily would be nice.
- The material image map is the only place I know of that defaults to inches not feet.
- Beam slopes are difficult to implement, would be great if we can slope it at a x/x value like the roofs and ceilings
- Renaming different items is different based on what menu you are in. Sometimes it is a click right on the name in the Project Browser, sometimes you have to click the Rename button. Just asking for the same results and expectations when looking to rename things. Same applies for deleting.
- Families and Revit Model files should have an almost identical interface. There are some shortcuts and commands that are not translatable
- Drafting Views and Indexes do not allow cropping for some odd reason
- You cannot view how a schedule looks graphically without going to a separate tab where the schedule is on the sheet
- O, and fix the glitch that prevents me from typing in a text box some of the times, but not all of the times.
Again, these are not big features, this is just to avoid the stop-start work process that defines Revit. I go a little bit, then I have to stop because I now need to look up something as to why this tool or feature works differently than another. Working in construction on the architectural or engineering side is already difficult enough. We have so much stuff in our heads already and are constantly thinking about code, feasibility, cost, program and design. Revit asks the user to then memorize a whole new set of rules and exceptions. My hope if to someday have a streamlined program that does not feel like I am working in a 30 year old patchwork quilt and instead feels like a comfy cashmere throw
Just a thought.