More User-friendly Project Browser

[Wish List System]

Summary: Revit's Project Browser should be refined, for example: * it should highlight selected/current, unused, referenced, linked, detail/model views, in different customisable colours the full width of the project browser window - thus making finding the right view in a complex project far more easily; * views, sheets and families should be in separable/dockable tabs in the browser, like Photoshop / ArchiCAD; * drag and drop (copy and move) should work between open sheets, ie without having to use the project broswer, and maintain link to references on other views; * component list should be filtered or with tabs for each component type instead of dumping everything together; * there should be a New View button when right-clicking on (Floor Plan / Ceiling / Elevation / Drafting / 3D View / Family), as with Sheets / Schedules / Legends

Description: Revit's Project Browser should be refined, for example: * it should highlight selected/current, unused, referenced, linked, detail/model views, in different customisable colours the full width of the project browser window - thus making finding the right view in a complex project far more easily; * views, sheets and families should be in separable/dockable tabs in the browser, like Photoshop / ArchiCAD; * drag and drop (copy and move) should work between open sheets, ie without having to use the project broswer, and maintain link to references on other views; * component list should be filtered or with tabs for each component type instead of dumping everything together; * there should be a New View button when right-clicking on (Floor Plan / Ceiling / Elevation / Drafting / 3D View / Family), as with Sheets / Schedules / Legends

Product and Feature: Revit Architecture - Other

Submitted By: krzystoff on 11/05/2020

[dbroad]

This isn't a wish. It's a list of wishes. I'm not sure making Revit should look like ArchiCAD or Photoshop or if that would help be worse. Colorizing can also be problematic and can interfere with contrast and readability. Tabbing can hide things. The browser organization can already be customized. The offer to make a new plan is automatic when a level is added. The view tab is adequate to add new plan views. Duplicating views is easy. It doesn't make sense to have a new elevation button by right clicking on the elevations node. A new elevation can be made simply by using the elevation callout. I would encourage you to explore the browser organization options.

[krzystoff]

It's not so much a list of discrete wishes, but a few suggestions on ways it could be improved. The user interface is painfully inefficient and the changes between the old pre-ribbon Revit 8.1 that I started using in Revit and the current Revit 2021, are that interface has become more demanding of real-estate, but less productive in the use of that space. Meanwhile other software have taken leaps and bounds in the improvement of their UI, ArchiCAD since late 90s has improved quite a bit, (albeit it's still looks like it was designed in the 80s and has a steep learning curve due to the myriad icons and toolbars), some of Autodesk's other applications are vastly more refined and contextual. Sacrificing the huge ribbon for a wide properties palette would be a great first step, for speed and to cut the amount of screen space that Revit (and it's verticals) waste for icons that are primarily only useful to beginners who haven't yet learned to customise shortcuts.