Autodesk and its products have been around for quite some time. Personally, I use AutoCAD, AutoCAD MEP, and Revit. Every year, all of these products get updated but the updates are arent actually an update, they're more like a service pack with a different logo (sometimes a different logo). However, every year, the product becomes more and more expensive and most of the time seems to be spent on thinking of ways to charge you more money.
Over the years, I have literally spent tens of thousands of dollars on programmers to develop applications to make the product usable.
This begs the question; Why are they so tone deaf and stubborn? So many of the requested features have been being requested for decades. Why do they not take the most requested features, and implement them? Some of these features are frustratingly easy such as an actual dark mode for Revit, or an actual sample project for AutoCAD MEP complete with actual parts that people use, or a more user friendly customizable UI?
Below are my top requests from Autodesk. What are yours?
- Make AutoCAD MEP usable to design MEP Systems
- An actual way to manage parameters within Revit
- An actual way to use Revit tables like excel
- Actual support for excel and autocad - the existing way is terrible and doesent work
- Fix the autocad tool palette so you dont end up with a disaster of files
- Make the tool palette transferrable
- Load calculations within Revit that dont require you to model the entire building for a CAD import
- They are focusing on the cloud right now. Why not make it so your profile is portable and automatically loads on a computer when you sign in. This could be hosted by the cloud so file paths arent an issue.
- Make it so autocad tables dont take 5 seconds to click into and change
- Make the autocad UI custimizable by drag and drop instead of trying to do it with a UI manager that is clunky and difficult.
- Be able to manage property set data within excel instead of controlling it through the properties palettes through a 3rd level tab.
- Make it so customizing Mvparts doesent require a computer science degree.
- Tool palette for Revit to auto load familes and host frequently used commands
- Be able to create custom tabs within Revit to host commands and buttons similar to the Quick Access tool bar.
- Most importantly; Listen to your users....
I could go on but would love to hear other ideas if there are any takers..
Thanks
~NPS
