Call for feedback – Rebar Detailing Challenges and Expectations

[peticid]

We are exploring the challenges and expectations around rebar detailing, so we created this anonymous survey to gather your feedback. It is available in several languages, so please make sure to select the one that’s most convenient to you. Your answers will contribute to improving Revit for rebar detailing, so we appreciate your time to fill this in.

https://autodeskfeedback.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cAKOItcsWlLzAp

[Jason.P]

Just a little bump here. It is a quick survey with some really good questions. If we want to see rebar progress please take the time to fill it out. 

[RPTHOMAS108]

I answered the survey but sometimes with the form of questions in these things I wonder who they are aimed at:

1. People that detail in Revit (those with experience)
2. People that decide what software will be used on a project (often not the same as (1))
3. People that have no career progression. So if they are using it or not in the future will be based on how good/bad it is/becomes rather than other circumstances?

Form of questions can put people off answering. Even though I have previous detailing experience in both AutoCAD and Revit (not recent) I was starting to wonder halfway through if I was qualified to answer i.e. do you care if I know a better way of doing things but have no plans to use Revit for detailing rebar in the future regardless of what happens with it? I did try and qualify the answers I was giving. 

Marketing types often use 'would you recommend...' to get around these things I believe. Everyone can recommend but then you tend to think 'I don't generally recommend things'.

Also those survey text boxes for expansive comments are very small, I had to scroll along to the beginning to make sure I'm not repeating myself in them.

[peticid]

Firstly, many thanks to everyone who's filled in already this survey.

Really appreciate Jason's support and your extensive feedback, Richard. The survey is primarily focused on getting the input of structural technicians/detailers, engineers and BIM Managers. And we are definetly interested to find out about how people prefer doing the detailing as efficiently as possible, even if they don't plan to migrate to Revit, yet. It is from such experiences that we learn so much, and then we do our best to incorporate this know-how into the product.

We have fixed the issue with the text boxes, thank you for reporting this glitch.

Kind regards,

[RPTHOMAS108]

Hello @peticid  my comments above I felt obligated to convey because I almost didn't get to the end of that survey and I wanted to convey the reason why. I'm grateful for the opportunity to give feedback and was assuming you would want answers from a broad range of people (so I'm glad you confirmed this). My point above was a very subtle thing so I'll try to clarify further in terms of my thought process.

The first section of the survey finding out about the persons experience, job, what software they use (essentially who is answering) is perfectly fine. However most of the questions related to feature upgrades seem to be tied together with software purchasing decisions (I understand this is the most important goal of the survey). However consider that this may not be relevant to the person being asked. So if they are asked 'would this feature make you more likely to use Revit for x' then the answer will be 'no' but not for the reason that is relevant to Autodesk. They say 'no' because they are literally being asked about something they have no control over (purchasing or choice of usage on a project). If the question was instead 'would this feature make you more likely to recommend the use of Revit for x' then you see it is more neutral and something that anyone can feel qualified to answer. Managers make choices based on worker recommendations or their own experience so the ultimate goal is still reached.

Sorry to be a bit pedantic about it.