Subscription Pack - Good News

[jarosa]

My first opinion of the Subscription Pack is that this is a major step in the right direction and I hope it continues. It seems that the factory is attempting to right some miscues.
1. It provides advantages for Subscription users
2. It provides improvements to the UI
3. It improves usability through such things as the Keyboard shortcut tool. This concept needs to be applied to other areas, e.g. keynotes, etc.
4. It adds Structure to RAC. This alone is a huge step in improving the overall program.
5. While the framing tool needs some work. It's something that has been asked for. So large arch firms may not find a major use for it, panel construction firms and residential designers will most likely find it useful, especially as it improves.
6. Some users have reported improved speed say from family to project window. If this is true, then there is hope to speed up the ribbon in its entirety.

I'm hopeful to see these kinds of improvements to continue.

John

[still.james]

i have to agree, this seems a great step forward for subscription customers and the fact it seems Revit users are getting what they wish for.

[zanzibarbob7]

It's great. Makes Revit more useful and fun to use. Thanks!

[mthurnauer]

I too was excited to see these additional features added for subscription users. It may have been added to curb frustration but good none the less. The one thing that I hope doesn't happen though is that since they don't get treated as a low priority item since they are free. We have been experiencing performance problems with design review 2010 and it seemed that with previous deliveries of design review that they did not spend much time fixing the program between major releases. At the moment, we find design review 2010 to be so unstable that we would prefer to go back to 2009. I hope that if there are problems with hese new features that they don't wait until the next major release of revit to fix the bugs in the plug-ins.

[patricks]

I too was excited to see these additional features added for subscription users. It may have been added to curb frustration but good none the less. The one thing that I hope doesn't happen though is that since they don't get treated as a low priority item since they are free. We have been experiencing performance problems with design review 2010 and it seemed that with previous deliveries of design review that they did not spend much time fixing the program between major releases. At the moment, we find design review 2010 to be so unstable that we would prefer to go back to 2009. I hope that if there are problems with hese new features that they don't wait until the next major release of revit to fix the bugs in the plug-ins.

I wouldn't call these new features free, since only paying subscription customers get access to them.

As for design review, I still use the Ye Olde Autodesk DWF Viewer for DWF files (MUCH faster for plain DWF files). For what seems to be a newer file format - .dwfx files - I pretty much have to use DR2010. However 2010 seems to run fine and print fine with .dwfx files.

[TroyGates]

From what I've heard, the subscription advantage packs for all the Autodesk products are early releases of tools/updates that are being developed for the next major release. So your subscription dollars are putting the updates in your hands sooner than non-subscribers.

[barathd]

From what I've heard, the subscription advantage packs for all the Autodesk products are early releases of tools/updates that are being developed for the next major release.

Troy:

If true - this would be very good news. Although I like some of the new tools - most are pretty rough around the edges.

Regards

Dick Barath

[scowsert]

I still question some of the original concepts (be it marketing strategy). Yes structural guys spend more time doing structure and architects architecture, sure. I give it that. But we are all creating buildings.

Why not give us all the same tools but arrange the tool box differently. This advantage pack certainly is a change in that direction. I want to see more of it.

Please keep the marketing folks away from my tools.

Oh and thanks factory. :)

Sage - from the structural side.

[ron.sanpedro]

I still question some of the original concepts (be it marketing strategy). Yes structural guys spend more time doing structure and architects architecture, sure. I give it that. But we are all creating buildings.

Why not give us all the same tools but arrange the tool box differently. This advantage pack certainly is a change in that direction. I want to see more of it.

Please keep the marketing folks away from my tools.

Oh and thanks factory. :)

Sage - from the structural side.

Indeed, one would hope that the Revit 2011 SBP would include some MEP tools for Architects and Structural Engineers. From the Architecture side we often need to show some exposed duct ideas very early on, and getting it to look right is a real time consuming pain. And I have seen Structural only seismic retrofits, where modeling ducts and conduit that could not be disrupted during construction would have been really helpful.
Now if we can just get those really computationally intensive tools like Image Modeler to be 64 bit, we are talking! ;)

Gordon

[sultarc]

I can remember a while back when we were screaming for the structural tools.

On another note, i've installed everything but yet the framing module refuses to install on my machine. I've uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail.

[Mike Hardy-Brown]

I can remember a while back when we were screaming for the structural tools.

On another note, i've installed everything but yet the framing module refuses to install on my machine. I've uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail.
Same problem here :?:

[gwnelson]

Same problem here :?:

See a few posts regarding framing & you'll see that you're really saving wasted disk space.

[BDR_Architect]

I can remember a while back when we were screaming for the structural tools.

On another note, i've installed everything but yet the framing module refuses to install on my machine. I've uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail.

Are you talking about the Structure tab or the wood framing? If you are looking for the wood framing module, it's in the Revit Extensions update not the Subscription Release. After you install go to the "Add-Ins" tab... look under Extensions Manager (or External Tools > Revit Extensions). You'll see the Wood Framing Walls there.

[sultarc]

I'm referring to the wood framing tool. I've installed both software files. I works on my Mac laptop but not my PC desktop.