Revit 2010 - New Ribbon UI

[barathd]

Just in case people missed this - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oQCmT5CCeL...revit+2009.jpg

Yes it does look clean - but is there any substance beneath it? If it is just a matter of rearranging icons - ... who needs it ... but if the underlying functionality has been made more efficient it will be worth the wait.

Couple of noteworthy items I noticed. Could there be a new family browser? Direct access to scope box looks good.

Time will tell.

Regards

Dick

[barathd]

Wow - take a while to get my head around this. Seems like a "new family editor" not a family browser.

Thanks

Dick Barath

[patricks]

ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK if I have to deal with clicking a bunch of drop-down arrows to get to tools that aren't readily visible I will go NUTS!!!!!

It was bad enough when they took away all the line tool buttons and gave us only 3 with the rest of them mushed into a drop-down box around version 7 or 8. 2 clicks to pick a tool when it used to be only one, hundreds of times a day, is pretty irritating!

[m20roxxers]

I wonder if they'll have a Revit Classic Button

[patricks]

As I posted in the other thread, that ribbon thing might be useful if we can move it off to a 2nd monitor and have it stay there every time Revit is launched.

[Scott Womack]

I wonder if they'll have a Revit Classic Button

Unfortunately, it was stated at AU, that what is an option in AutoCAD will not be an option in Revit

[davidcobi]

Looks like the microsoft ribbon... probably still acts like the old design bar. Maybe moving icons around is a first step to future ribbon-like features.

From Wikipedia: "KDE developer Jarosław Staniek notes that the ribbon concept has historically appeared extensively as "tabbed toolbars" in applications such as Macromedia HomeSite, Dreamweaver and Borland Delphi" ...and now Revit.

[barathd]

If the new UI has been designed with some foresight (which one must assume) it should be a HUGE productivity gain.

How I see it there should be far fewer mice picks. The menu should be context sensitive - i.e. ribbon option bar should adjust to whatever you are working on.

I had once suggested the number of mouse picks needed to be drastically reduced (by two thirds) - to make Revit ergonomically efficient. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[barathd]

Was not the new UI paraded around to several User Groups earlier in the year - for their reaction?

[Devin_82]

At AU I heard mention of that point about context sensitive toolbars, basically Revit guessing what I am trying to do. I just hope that it guesses correctly and doesn't make me click around even more to find what I am really looking for...