Friday, September 17, 2010

The beginning...

So, in the "my bad" department I've got a more developed list to start off this branch of Revit Futures than I do for Categories. But since I've got it...

The family editor in Revit is the single most powerful interface with the Revit database (Think continuum transfunctioner in Dude Where's My Car). By mastering content creation and building a library for your firm, you can single handedly make the difference between the success and failure of an implementation. But, as they say, with great power comes great responsibility. As the most critical tool, we need Autodesk to focus a lot of development on the editor to continue to improve it. It would be one thing if it were perfect, but that is far from the case. There are numerous usability issues for content creators, even more user interface issues for the end users of the content, and - yes - even more restrictions on what you can actually program into the families as a content creator. The following posts are meant to describe a series of changes that would really take the family editor to a "whole 'nother Level", as described on SNL...

No comments:

Post a Comment