Revit Warnings...

[jrichardson]

What are people doing about Revit Warnings? I am referring to the warning list that gets created as you model the project. It is located under the tools pulldown, 3rd from the bottom, Review Warnings.... This list extends from the yellow warning dialog that may pop up in the lower right corner and may go away the moment you go into the next command.

We were having problems with slowness and joins in one of our projects and support reffered me to this spot. We had over 1000 errors in the model. I was told that this list should stay empty or Revit will continue to check these warnings. I can't seem to get this list warning free.

Most warnings were because lines or sketch lines were off axis. Most of these lines were from a concrete hatch that was imported from our typical details. The hatch was not asssociative therefore came in as individual linework. I was able to resolve most of these. Still about 75% of the errors appear to be STATEMENTS that there is a problem. Warnings that you know are there but can't really do nothing about. Or if you can it is rather clumbsy doing so.

A lot of the warnings will also state that a beam or brace is slightly off axis... Yes it is because it is a slope beam. Really no way to accept this warning to remove it from the checking list unless you model it flat.

Anyways, just wonder what others are doing? Or maybe we are model things wrong and nobody else isgetting these warnings.

thanks,
jamie

[Paul Andersen]

In our 100% Revit Projects we have been able to keep this list empty with the exception of the following warnings that you have already pointed out:

Slightly off axis warnings (for sketch lines, other linework and beams / braces)

Element will be detached from its associated plane (typically shows up with regards to beam system members sloped after initial placement)

If the factory / support is pointing to these as a possible performance hit we need more options when dealing with these warnings (perhaps a 4th option - Ignore Checked). I appreciate the slightly off axis warning and find it useful to clean up new users work if they ignore the warning but more often than not with our experienced users these warnings pile up because they refer to intentionally off axis members and linework with no valid option for resolving them.

While this list of intended warnings has bothered me from a clutter and no way to properly resolve them standpoint, the annoyance factor has moved up a couple of notches if it is also causing a performance hit. As you have already pointed out a fairly typical steel job can have 100's if not 1000's of these slightly off axis errors.