So I had a brainstorm session this afternoon while sitting on the 605 freeway in So. California, headed home from a client meeting. I was thinking of library content, and how we need it, and how the more we have the better. We need manufacturers to produce content. We need students to produce content , we need everyone to produce content!
So what if Revit/Autodesk released a version of Revit that was just like the demo version in the Project editor, but that allowed full ability to save only from the family editor? This would allow anyone to create content in the family editor and save the families, and then they could run Revit in demo mode to test their content in a model!
In fact, I think maybe all the demo/trial versions should come this way. I know they are fully functional now for 60 days, but at the end of the 60, if no license is present, then the project side goes into demo mode, but the family editor remains fully functional.
This seems like a great way to me to get people/students/manufacturers creating library components for the Revit community to use. They get to create content for free, while actual projects require the full version. Enough rambling.....What do you think?