Topography Background Process - Can't Save

 Not being able to save a project because "background processing" is running is VERY dumb!

Revit 2026 is Released

 Revit 2026 has been release to the public now! Here's a quick observation today, a department of subtle candidate. The Manage Links button on the Insert ribbon has moved to the front of the line! It used to be at the end of the Link panel. It makes sense I suppose but now it's farther away from the action.

Dept. of Wishes - Center Options Bar Options

I've often thought about this but don't recall complaining about it before. I "wish" that the options offered on the Options Bar were closer to the work at hand. Perhaps "center" all the options being offered by default, at least? Here's the Option for "Copy" when using the Mirror tool. It's soooo faaaar awaaaay from the work at hand. With the mirror tool I can use the CTRL key to toggle it on (if off) and off (if on). Still, if the options themselves were closer to the "action" that would be nice, no?

Autodesk University 2024 - The Old Revit Gang

 

Yesterday I made a quick road trip to San Diego to attend a breakfast gathering of the "old Revit gang" that were attending this year's Autodesk University. Jim Balding, center in red kneeling, organized it all. He expected 15 people might actually be able to attend we nearly doubled that number.

Some of these people helped create Revit from nothing, used Revit very very early, are still working on Revit or with Autodesk now as well as either working in or have created their own companies inspired by and to do things that enhance what Revit does...or some combination of all of the above. Put the names of the people you know/recognize in the comments. It's a test, haha.

While wandering the conference after our breakfast meeting, I got to see many other people, who have meant a great deal to me through the years. Later that evening I also got to briefly catch up with an old friend who was mixing the audio for the evening's entertainment, Counting Crows. It was a great day!

My hats off to you all, keep on keep on!

Managing RVT Link Visibility

 I stole this idea from Autodesk Revit Forum member de_smith, sharing it here now. 😀

Another member asked: We have multiple view templates set up for various types of plan views, so when a change needs to be made to the visibility of a linked model, that change must be carried over multiple times, for each view template. It easily becomes hard to track that the visibility is consistent everywhere. 

Is there a way that the linked model visibility settings can be applied independently of view templates, so that when modified, they can carry across the entire project?

de_smith replied with (some editing on my part): 

Control linked models with their own view template then layer the regular view's template back over it. 

Create a "REVIT LINK CLEAN UP VIEW"  view template (for each unique link)

• in the view template dialog box untick the 'include' column for everything except V/G Overrides RVT Links
• in this template do all your required visibility modifications to the revit link
• in all your other view templates under the 'include' column untick V/G Override RVT Links

Apply the 'REVIT LINKS CLEAN UP VIEW' to all your views in your project browser at once

• then go back and apply the other view templates to the views.
• This holds the info from the Revit Links Clean up view

If there are any changes needed to the linked models, make the changes once, in the Revit Link's view template, apply it to all views at once and then reapply your other view templates. This is much quicker than changing the Revit links in every single view template.

I've done similar for Imported Categories (DWG links) and try hard not to override RVT links but this should work nicely when it's absolutely necessary.