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Month: March 2011
Here is a challenge for you API and programming wizards out there: make a tool that monitors the performance and productivity of a Revit user.
What am I talking about? Mainly, I want to know how I can improve my productivity. I can see two big ways:
- Ensure I am using keyboard shortcuts where possible
- Avoid triggering commands unnecessarily, and thus having to abort them and retry
Here is the kind of output I would be looking for:
start sample data
REVIT SESSION Productivity Analysis
Number of commands initiated: 2493
Top 50 commands initiated:
Zoom Extents
Trim
Scale
Copy
…etc…
% of Top 50 initiated using keyboard shortcut:
43%
List of Top 50 commands initiated WITHOUT keyboard shortcut:
Align
…etc…
Total number of commands initiated and then aborted without doing anything:
176
List of commands most commonly aborted:
Cut Geometry
…etc…
end sample data
You get the idea? Such a utility could show me which tools I should add to my arsenal of keyboard shortcuts. It would also show me which commands I am not using correctly or triggering unnecessarily.
How could this tool be developed? I see two main ways:
- Create a tool to parse and analyse the output of the journal file for the session.
- Create an API tool that monitors and logs the necessary data, then displays it
Who is going to rise to the challenge?
To quote one of my favourite shows:
And if ever a challenger wins over the Iron Chef, he or she will gain the people’s ovation and fame forever!
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Deadlines. CAD-method: throw warm bodies at it. Complex #Revit projects however, prove the adage “nine women can’t make a baby in one month”
Twitter / NMcClure: Deadlines. CAD-method: thr …
quote “I have been asked by a few customers if Revit will cache textures in graphics RAM just like a game system might? … I am happy to say the answer is yes – Revit will fully use this RAM and the graphics team is continually looking to make improvements in memory management.”
From Erik at Inside the Factory: Revit and your Graphics Card
To change which orientation that the Revit ViewCube thinks is the ‘Front’ for a specific view, check out the video below, or scroll down for the quick step-by-step.
- Orient the view to the orientation you would like to be the Front. This will have to be a ‘horizontal’ view.
- Right-click on ViewCube, go to Set Front to View
- Click on [Current View].
Note: Press the letter ‘A’ on your keyboard if views with numbers in front are hiding the [Current View] option – it is quicker than scrolling!
My previous Blog post about Orient to a Plane
- Typos are made during activation
- The serial number you are attempting to use does not match the product
- The serial number you are attempting to use is truly not valid anymore
- The contact information you are using does not match what is already associated with the Serial Number when the product was registered
Issue
You have purchased a license on Subscription for an Autodesk product and would like download one of the three previous releases of the product.
Solution
As a Subscription Member, you can download and activate the latest release, or any of the three previous releases, of most Autodesk products. You can activate one release of a product per license, purchased on Subscription.
To download the product software for which you are eligible, log into Subscription Center, select Access your subscription benefits, then Downloads.
The main “lesson” I try to impart to new #Revit teams is not how to do it this way, but WHY to.
