mjdanowski
2008-07-31, 08:21 PM
Just a tally of wishes I have been keeping in the back of my head as I go along Reviting :_
1. The ability to schedule circuit/system information with mechanical/electrical equipment. When you are looking at the "Fields" tab of the properties window there is a drop down menu labeled "Select available fields from:". If each system connected to the piece of equipment had a selection in that drop-down for use in the schedule that would be awesome. It would be like embedded schedules, but a little more powerful. This is needed because very often we have schedules we need to put circuit information in (motor, feeder, etc). Right now you have to fudge it with dumb data, the ability to do the above would make these schedules "smart". This also is extremely useful for design as well as we can see all equipment, their load, and their associated feeders.
2. Split feeder wire sizes into three columns, Phase, Neutral, and Ground! Or at least put the ground wire separate from the phase/neutral. You generally will express a feeder for something in terms of lets say (4) wires for the phases/neutral and then separately for the ground. This is due to different code requirements and conditions for each.
3. Make calculated feeders overidable!!!!! This is extremely important because very often a feeder's size will be based not off a ton of factors. Pinning a feeder size purely on breaker size upstream makes the feeder sizing feature of the program all but useless. its nice for early submissions and resistive loads, but in the end the engineer absolutely needs to change feeder sizes to fit situations which Revit cannot calculate.
4. Get rid of unit-less system parameters This isn't so much a needed feature as it is a pet peeve of mine. Why are there voltage and wattage parameters on electrical equipment which are text boxes (and therefore useless)?
5. Ability to set ASHRAE 90.1 Data for each space type You know how in a space you can set it as a "space type." Expand on this and let users customize (kind of like wire /pipe sizes) allowable W/sqft and other parameters for lighting, mechanical, etc. Make the GUI easy to use and not in an XML file like was recently done with most mechanical and electrical settings. DO NOT HARD CODE THIS!!! It must be customizable to allow for different codes! Do this and you are steps away from having Revit sprint out LEED submittals, which is godly.
6. Panel Schedules.... This has been beaten to death, so I will just leave it at that.
7. Ability to filter families in a schedule by "part type" Lets say I want to make a transformer schedule. If I could go make a schedule and then filter by Part Type = Transformer, then my life would be easier and I wouldn't have to put a shared parameter for "part type" in all of my transformer families. Part type in my opinion is kind of like a "sub-category", if it is implemented, why can't we filter by it!
1. The ability to schedule circuit/system information with mechanical/electrical equipment. When you are looking at the "Fields" tab of the properties window there is a drop down menu labeled "Select available fields from:". If each system connected to the piece of equipment had a selection in that drop-down for use in the schedule that would be awesome. It would be like embedded schedules, but a little more powerful. This is needed because very often we have schedules we need to put circuit information in (motor, feeder, etc). Right now you have to fudge it with dumb data, the ability to do the above would make these schedules "smart". This also is extremely useful for design as well as we can see all equipment, their load, and their associated feeders.
2. Split feeder wire sizes into three columns, Phase, Neutral, and Ground! Or at least put the ground wire separate from the phase/neutral. You generally will express a feeder for something in terms of lets say (4) wires for the phases/neutral and then separately for the ground. This is due to different code requirements and conditions for each.
3. Make calculated feeders overidable!!!!! This is extremely important because very often a feeder's size will be based not off a ton of factors. Pinning a feeder size purely on breaker size upstream makes the feeder sizing feature of the program all but useless. its nice for early submissions and resistive loads, but in the end the engineer absolutely needs to change feeder sizes to fit situations which Revit cannot calculate.
4. Get rid of unit-less system parameters This isn't so much a needed feature as it is a pet peeve of mine. Why are there voltage and wattage parameters on electrical equipment which are text boxes (and therefore useless)?
5. Ability to set ASHRAE 90.1 Data for each space type You know how in a space you can set it as a "space type." Expand on this and let users customize (kind of like wire /pipe sizes) allowable W/sqft and other parameters for lighting, mechanical, etc. Make the GUI easy to use and not in an XML file like was recently done with most mechanical and electrical settings. DO NOT HARD CODE THIS!!! It must be customizable to allow for different codes! Do this and you are steps away from having Revit sprint out LEED submittals, which is godly.
6. Panel Schedules.... This has been beaten to death, so I will just leave it at that.
7. Ability to filter families in a schedule by "part type" Lets say I want to make a transformer schedule. If I could go make a schedule and then filter by Part Type = Transformer, then my life would be easier and I wouldn't have to put a shared parameter for "part type" in all of my transformer families. Part type in my opinion is kind of like a "sub-category", if it is implemented, why can't we filter by it!