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Autodesk Project Browser Research / Collapse Project Browser Tip

The folks over at The Factory are wanting input from all of their Revit users.  They are wanting to see a screen capture of your project browser and the properties of it.  I would suggest collapsing the tree to just the structure and not the individual views (see tip below on how to do this easily).  Go to this post to help them out and possibly make future versions of Revit more to your liking.

Browser Tip:

If you need to quickly collapse the Revit Project Browser then simply change the Browser oganization in the Type Selector to a different one then change it back this will collapse all.  If you want to expand the entire Project Browser then hit the * key when on the Views or Sheets.

 

Vasari Sliders

For those of you out there using Vasari found out that it went down at the end of last year and it is up again.  Well they also lost a few other parts of the site.  If you were wanting to play with the sliders (see the featured add ins at the bottom) that site was down until last Friday as well.  But thanks to all of the dedicated people over there this part is up and running.

Elements mysteriously moving

I find that at least once a week, users get frustrated with Revit because elements mysteriously move and they have no idea why.  Then I ask if they know what the little check box on the bottom right corner of the screen is?

The Press & Drag radio button,which is on by default when you install Revit (programmers please change this), allows you to click on an element and drag it all in one motion.   As defined from the help file “TipWhen moving elements one at a time, select Press & Drag on the status bar to drag an element without selecting it first. When using this option, the element is selected as you drag it.”   So when you think you are going to do a selection or crossing window you end up moving elements around instead.  I know everyone out there has had this issue at least one time or another.  Simply un-check this dialog box and the random moving of elements will more than likely stop.  Revit should remember that this has been turned off so next time when you open Revit it will still be off, however if Revit crashed more than likely it will be on again when you restart.

If you are at a firm where you deploy Revit and would like this changed for all users you can edit the deployment so that the Press and Drag is turned off automatically for users.  See this post at Revit Clinic for more details.