You know, not to cause any more arguments, but I have to disagree with your first point. These three items you bring up were all things I covered in my 'Revit Fundamentals' class, and that was using Autodesk's own training materials. I think the real issue in regards to these items is that most people never take any form of actual training, they either just charge into the software learning what they have to ad-hock or maybe they will go through a tutorial or two. These are 'newbie' questions I believe, being asked by people who I'm guessing never took a class or the on-line training available. I mean, if I was asking how to do something basic in Photoshop, because I just started using it and never took any time prior to learn about it, that doesn't mean that there are fundamental flaws in Photoshop. No offense, but I use Revit every day, and have for over three years now, and used to teach it full-time. And I think you're wrong here, no offense- these are basic questions that are easily answered. You Create a Wall Schedule by clicking Views->New->Schedule and selecting Walls as the category. You indicate which walls are rated vs. which aren't by giving your wall types a course fill pattern. And the last one, while made much simpler in R7, you do by having a 'preconstruction' phase where all typical things like doors within a legend live so that you can have them all within a legend but not showing up elsewhere within your project.Originally Posted by billybobtobs
Also, your thought that having to draw anything 'defeates the purpose of BIM' kinda shows that you haven't worked with Revit extensively. No offense meant in the slightest, but I don't know if you're aware of just how much you still just simply draw stuff within Revit. Just because it's BIM doesn't mean you have to model everything; as a matter of fact modeling everything quickly becomes a bad idea for several reasons. For example, I just, this morning, drew where my strike lines are within an entry court. I did this by just drawing lines over the top of the slab. I'm never going to schedule the concrete strike lines, all I need to do is indicate there position in an enlarged plan, so I'm just going to draw them. And it would be almost impossible to model everything to the point where you can, say, get a complex roofing detail just by cutting a section; you still have to cut the section and then draw over the top of it some. That was never the point of Revit or BIM I feel, to have the model defined down to every nail and roofing felt. It's still all about content and communication, whether that's model-centric (Revit) or drawing-centric (AutoCAD).
And what kind of stair are you trying to make? How do the stair tools fall short? my point within this whole thread is that general, ambiguous complaints do nothing to help anyone. It might even turn out that your stair is possible, you just don't know how to make it yet.