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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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eyalbRAPVR
Enthusiast

We have been waiting for a reasonable browser for decades. It is high time to get one from Autodesk. I beleive that the best one would be customizable. For us it is important to create separate tabs for the following: Project stage (shared parameter), Families and so on. If you create a fixed form of browser you will again be the right solution for some and the wrong solution for others. The idea of using parameters is to allow you to customize the interface according to your mode of work. But even what you suggest will serve as a great improvement to the current situation. 

 

jeff
Explorer

Mystified that this issue has been dormant for so many years at Autodesk. The benefits to the designer are obvious and huge.

The majority of users are straight ahead design techs, architects and engineers. Little interested in designing or involved with an I M Pei project where the building looks like a fishbowl. The majority are designing buildings, not space stations.

Understood that Revit does have some issues important to the product build but this request is menial and was provided, to a degree, in Autocad years ago.

A little less on the "cool" functions in the pipe for Revit and more emphasis on the real world in the grit functions to improve expediency and organization will be greatly appreciated by the vast Revit community.

Autodesk is paid a fortune for this product. Time to stop thinking like 1965 IBM.

Save any snarky replies. Whether or not Autodesk, or it's champions, like me or not is immaterial. You're getting paid to develop, not just shuffle the same screen around and reissue.

steiner
Advocate

@pieterschiettecatte posted at the same topic: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/multiple-windows-of-projectbrowser/idc-p/9069068#M29420

@autodesk: please consider votings my post above

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Zwielehner
Advocate

Hi all, 

I know we all hope that Autodesk would fulfill our wishes. But that might take some time. In the meantime, check out this addin, maybe that could help you.

 

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=6453162978000981936&appLang=en&os=Win64

 

 

Disclaimer: I'm the developer. Support is highly appreciated and will lead to further improvements :). 

Intuos5
Advisor

This should have been implemented years ago. I would add that you should be able switch tabs with hotkeys and go to a specific tab using a hotkey. In sheets, the views tab should be open by default to ease placement of views and reduce mouse clicks.

jiri_polacek
Contributor

Haha you wish! It's 2021, Autodesk's revenues are going through the roof, but Revit is still the same software with awful and ridiculous UI. 

I don't know who is in charge of 'developing' UI in Revit, but I guess it's someone who just 'likes the things they are' and won't allow ANY improvements. 

There's so much which could be changed and which could save thousands of people thousands of hours of tedious clicking, scrolling, searching.... 

 

I guess this thread will be lot longer in few years' time , with the same issues still debated in vain. Only hope is that the building industry will wake up and will move to a competitor. That and only that will make autodesk to start innovate. So far they've just been acquiring software, milking it for few years and then letting it slowly die without even basic interest in its development. 

 

JP

Intuos5
Advisor

@jiri_polacekIf only there was someone on the UI team, this wouldn't have been this way for such a long time in the first place. Maybe there needs to be an idea to hire a UI specialist, just like there is a community manager now thanks to a user idea.

benschilders
Advocate

Great to see this post gatherd so much votes, i really mis this split browsing function coming from Archicad in college, 
where i was used to have layouts(sheets), views, split up in diffrent tabs.

Hope they make it like this so there is less redicoulus unnecessary scrolling. 
(maybe even giving people the choiche in what way they want it, like a list or tabed ) 

Hope it gets on the roadmap !

tobias.sheehan
Explorer

Dear Autodesk,

 

I often exerience navigating through the Project Browser very tedious when I have a large project when I have expanded certain subjects like (Views, legends, schedules. etc.). Of course I can collapse all the subjects, but in some cases I would want to keep certain subjects expanded. It is my belief that the main subjects deserve a tab above in the project browser like the attached screenshot. That way I can switch between subjects a lot more efficient without the loss of specific expanded tiers. I would have the option to select a single subject or to view them all.

 

Kind regards,

 

Tobias Sheehan, BIM Coordinator Arcadis

eyalbRAPVR
Enthusiast

Thanks Maltezc,

Nice app the one you created but it is far from what we need. We are currently developing a new browser for Revit and as soon as we are ready we will post it's purchase options on the app website. 

 

Eyal

Maltezc
Advocate

@eyalbRAPVR Thanks. I'm excited to see what you come up with. 

It would also help keep the project browser more organized, I would really like this feature.

Zwielehner
Advocate

Hi @pieterschiettecatte, @jeroen.van.halderen, @Maltezc, @eyalbRAPVR, @tobias.sheehan and all the others,

As there was no progress from Autodesk for quite some time we decided to make our own project browser, with its first version available on the App Store:

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=6453162978000981936&appLang=en&os=Win64

 

Please give it a try, with enough users I can enhance it even more. Your suggestions are very welcome (and this thread here is a real treasure I have to say!)

 

Regards,

Thomas

wr.marshall
Advisor
steiner
Advocate

If it's tabbed there has to be also multiple instances of ProjectBrowser. For example one for views and another for sheets. etc....

Zwielehner
Advocate
Andres_Jimenez
Contributor

The project browser was created by people who organize their closet by putting all their clothes in a pile, but also include their groceries in there too.

benschilders
Advocate

@Andres_Jimenez  That comment is gold 🤣

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