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Tabbed project browser

Tabbed project browser

Give the project browser tabs for: views, legends, schedules, sheets,families,groups,links,assemblies. This would greatly reduce the amount of scrolling/collapsing/uncollapsing 

 

 

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pieter4
Advisor

Project Browser improvements have been taken off the roadmap for Revit 2020. Make sure to add your feedback to the roadmap if you'd like to see it back on the list.

So very sad... I hope the roadmap will change, and I hope Autodesk will think about it’s Ushers and not only about it’s sponsors!
ddavis
Explorer

 I do not have 2019 yet.  Are you saying that this did not get addressed in 2019 AND it is off the roadmap for 2020?

pieter4
Advisor

Revit 2019 has a lot of great new features, but no tabbed project browser unfortunately.

 

The latest roadmap doesn't mention any updates on the project browser, but Autodesk will often adjust the roadmap based on user feedback so it's definitely worth replying on the roadmap page.

DanC-Cad
Explorer

Seems project browser is seperated by Views, legends, schedules, panel schedules, families, groups, revit links, and assemblies

How about tabs on the side that would jump you to a catagory quickly, we have this in Cadmep to switch between groups of fabrication elements (see image)I find myself scrolling up and down all the time, that would be a nice change

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Considering where the chatbot technology is headed, does it make sense to replace the project browser with a chatbot? You type what you are looking for in plain English, chatbot looks at your current project and provides a list of relevant matches. For e.g. you could type Level 1 floor plan and it will return you a link. When you click on that link, it will open the level 1 floor plan. This is just a very simple example, but your query that you type in plain English can be more complicated. For e.g. in future, you could type "section views that has a ceiling" and it will search through all the sections views that show a ceiling and return a list. Then you can click on any one of the sections.

TimGrissom
Enthusiast
lionel.kai
Advisor

@Anonymous Sounds like a great idea - voice search would be great too (and learning, so that if you call a certain view something, even if it's not in the title, you can still go to it). You should make a separate Idea post to be voted on - who knows, maybe 30 years from now we'll be able to tell Revit "Open the second floor overall plan"!

Anonymous
Not applicable
Imperion____V
Enthusiast
Idea proposal - to upgrade the full project browser to a more convenient form of project navigation. The goal of the upgrade is to unload the tree structure of the browser itself. When large volumes of navigation is complicated, so if you break into tabs, it will help facilitate and speed up the work. Navigation is tabbed: - views - all project navigation in drawings; - legends - the legend tab used in the project; - Representation - new tab. Allows you to save everything after rendering images and videos in the project itself; - schedules/quantities - tab of specifications, quantitative characteristics and sheets of materials to determine the quantitative characteristics and analysis of the components and materials used in the project; - sheets-sheet organizer tab for outputting finished documentation - families - all used families; - groups - tab of the combined elements; - links - related projects tab Such a hierarchy in the dispatcher will facilitate navigation during design. Additionally, the search register is built into the browser itself. When using the search, all information entered is filtered and highlighted. A search occurs on all tabs. The browser organization tab is added next to the search query. When merging dispatchers, a navigation bar appears at the bottom. If there are any other suggestions, you can include it in the post itself.
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ipselute
Advisor

Absolutely YES !! Much better than current browser !! Could you add an option to choose what tabs to hide/close and what tabs to keep visible?

Imperion____V
Enthusiast
I can visually show. But I think it is necessary to think about how to solve this and it was not out of the general concept of modernization...
pieter4
Advisor

Very nice mockup, but there's already an idea for this with almost 600 votes: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/tabbed-project-browser/idi-p/6340144

 

Please add your vote to it and post a link to this idea there so the developers can find your mockup when they look at implementing it.

Imperion____V
Enthusiast
Surprisingly, when I was looking for similar information on the browser, the search did not give out. And then it turns out there was already a subject. After reviewing the content of the topic, the developers paid attention to it, but did not pay due attention. In the branch itself there are also interesting navigation solutions, I can refine the concept of how the browser would look better and all the whims of users were involved.
Imperion____V
Enthusiast
Attaching the post to the idea. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/new-project-browser/idi-p/8345278 Just a concept. I will try to reach a more functional and visually attractive prototype later.
Imperion____V
Enthusiast

I decided to work out a more pleasant dispatcher interface at my leisure.

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Honestly, coming from another BIM authoring software, I've always found the project browser absolutely ridiculous. Nobody has ever benefited from having their families, views and revit links in the same window.

 

I'm assuming they were simply dumped there when Revit was first developed, to be resolve/reviewed later and then it was forgotten for 15 years.

 

I do like the idea of tabbing them but we also have to be able to separate them if needed and we should be able to drag a view and drop it on a sheet on browser to place views on sheets. Ideate apps already does this and it literally says: "How much time do you spend scrolling through the Revit project browser?" on their page. 

MiWolff
Advisor

I think right mouse click and search is already quite useful to get around the browser. Perhaps this context menu could be enhanced by entries like 'jump to sheets' or 'jump to <user defined>'. The menu could also have a tag for allowing/forbidding auto-collapse of the hierarchy.

Anonymous
Not applicable

I would like to be able to open multiple arborescence windows. One for my sheets layouts, an other for groups, etc. So, I could look at the groups and at the sheets without scrolling all the time.

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Anonymous
Not applicable

By arborescence do you mean the project browser?

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