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View reference labels as instance parameters

View reference labels as instance parameters

View reference labels for callouts need to be instance parameters that can be changes as needed.

Having to make different view types for OPP, TYP, etc makes no sense.

We usually end up clearing out the label and use text instead, which is not ideal. 

 

35 Comments
Anonymous
Not applicable

Anyone know if this was picked up in 2021?

At least the text in sections is now rotatable.

johnfielden
Contributor

No, it was not picked up in 2021.

paul.t.macknight
Advocate

I love how Autodesk likes to let things sit, untouched and unacknowledged, for about 5 years before they deign to "put it on their roadmap." And that's if we're lucky. I get that they need to offer new tools to stay ahead of their competition, I really do, but if you're neglecting provably broken "features" in favor of these new ones, your software development team's heuristics are all sorts of wack. I mean, the complete lack of end-user centricity in their releases is appalling, disguising is as a simple "lack of community interest" until it's such a festering issue they think it'll look good and people will be thankful that they finally fixed it. Every feature added becomes the foundation of how your software is perceived in future updates, and continuing to build on that broken foundation while your clients (yes, we as the users of their software are their target consumer/client base) are very vocally complaining about the very obvious cracks that don't get fixed update after update is going to ultimately doom the software because of people's lack of faith. If not now, then in the future, because today's users are tomorrow's project managers and other higher ups that make the decisions for which software to use.

 

curtisridenour
Advisor

Lame, let solve this simple problem.

norman2KMXQ
Enthusiast

Been wishing for this for the last 10 years - seems like it should be a fairly easy programmatic fix, common Autodesk!

sdurkee_sa
Enthusiast

This is still an issue in Revit 2022. If you select the tag of a reference drafting view, Edit Type, and change the Reference Label (SIM, OPP, etc.) it changes all tags of the referenced view because it is a parameter of the view instead of an instance parameter of the label.

 

Has anyone found an acceptable workaround to this (other than dumb text next to the tag)?

trevor.clarkM88RA
Enthusiast

Still a problem Autodesk, definitely fix this, it's a decade overdue.

 

But while you're at it, just make view tags be able to have user generated instance parameters so a view bug can have unique properties when it shows up in different views, such as varying the size or masking region by drawing. And speaking of masking regions in view bugs....

Ric_Weber
Collaborator
John_Rodrigues
Explorer

Why is this still an issue??? Autodesk, what are you doing over there?

Here in 2024 and this is still on my wishlist 🙏

curtisridenour
Advisor

it is stuff like this that makes me think issues like this get ignored on purpose. more clicks and more time spent by our users means that we need more users. more users = more licenses for Autodesk. Solving problems and adding features like this actually hurts Autodesk's bottom line.

 

Prove me wrong Autodesk. Fix small things like this that will improve the experience for your users.

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curtisridenour
Advisor

Oh Excellent! Thank you @kimberly_fuhrman-jones 

Status changed to: Implemented

We are pleased to say that this has been implemented in Revit 2026! Thank you for your contribution to improving Revit!

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 -The Factory

curtisridenour
Advisor

Thank you @kimberly_fuhrman-jones . This will be very helpful.

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