Greatest Fallacy of Revit

[antman]

Oh please no, please don't get people to start using subcategories like layers. As a Revit MEP user, it is very painful to control how Arch objects look when several parts of the object are on different subcategories. If you want to hide parts of families, link them to a yes/no parameter and uncheck when you don't want to see it. But please for other users of your model, don't go crazy with subcategories.

For everything mentioned in this thread, use filters. Filters can do all of what is needed from visibility, color, line weights, etc.

Oops, my bad. I forgot to add my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SarcMark#Irony_mark key to my keyboard. .-)

[MikeJarosz]

As it happens, I received an Acad file today from a consultant. The project will be done in Revit, but this Acad file had important site data. I turned the file on edge, and the various layers had acquired z-coordinates. This file is effectively useless.

but it has layers.........

Survey on edge.jpg

[antman]

I keep telling you guys that the ATARI 2600 OS is not supported to run AutoCAD!

[jsteinhauer]

Troy,

My 2 cents:
Subcategories are great. I wouldn't go nuts with them as Anthony suggests, but they do allow for greater control over the limited number of categories Revit allows us to have. The problem with a Y/N parameter is it can't be controlled per view as a subcategory can. If its on, its on throughout the entire project. If its off, its off throughout the entire project.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

[jsteinhauer]

OP,
When you were learning AutoCad, were you ranting about how that works nothing like the drafting board? Just remember that there are a growing number of customers that are requiring BIM as part of your deliverables. Its better to learn a new system than to become obsolete. Keep breathing and eventually you'll come to the understanding in your own time as to why firms are going the route of BIM.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

[gbrowne]

I'm thinking this is a joke post...

[jsteinhauer]

gbrowne,

I think you may be correct. If you look at Brett's company's profile, the three principal's profile pictures are Larry, Curly & Moe. Either they don't take themselves seriously or we shouldn't take Brett seriously. Reminds me of another thread that got pushed to the Out There Forums section. If this company is a fake, the owner of the website might want to take it down quickly. I'm sure the people that designed the projects profiled on this website would not be happy, again if this website is a fake.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...uture-of-Revit

[Alfredo Medina]

If you scroll down in the profiles page of that company's website, you will see the 3 principals' photographs, as the three stooges. Seriously.

Edit: oh, Jeff, I see that you had already discovered that. Strange, is it not?

[MikeJarosz]

Give Brett some respect. SABA Architects are in Seattle, and after searching the usual sources, I think this guy is legit. BTW, there is a SABA Architect in Australia, too.

[cliff collins]

Trolls or not, I'll still throw this in the ring!

http://www.augi.com/library/a-pictur...orth-1000-uses