Rod Howarth has done a great job in responding to the challenge I presented a fortnight ago.  He has created a simple yet effective program that analyzes your journal files and tells you the Top 20 commands that you are triggering WITH Keyboard Shortcuts, and the Top 20 commands you are triggering WITHOUT Keyboard Shortcuts.

Most of us realize that the fastest way to trigger a command is by using the keyboard.  Yes, the Ribbon is lovely in its own way, but once you know what command you want, why would you want to spend 3 or 4 clicks getting there, when a simple press or two on the keyboard will do the same thing?

Here is a link to the Journal File Analyzer post by Rod.

Here is a direct link to the Journal File Analyzer program.

I will post later about the paths to use if you don’t know them already.

Also, don’t include “” marks in the path entries.

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Revit 2012 information is giving me a bit of a headache…

This is how one guy responded to my recent post about Revit 2012:

If this is a real list of the most significant im provements… it looks like the description of some useful features of some witty plug-in…. why they do not work on the main part of the software….??!! I pay two subscriptions for this? Hopefully the real release will reserve us something more…. 

What do you think?

  1. Save All Families to files from Project is now built-in to Revit 2012
  2. Single key entry will be first in priority of Keyboard Shortcuts
  3. Worksharing may be disabled for a previously workshared project
  4. Import linked CAD files
  5. Purge imported categories
  6. 1:RATIO units available to spot slopes
  7. Lock 3d views and Tag in 3d views
  8. Create Assembly – allows automatic creation of views
  9. Support for WikiHelp
  10. Manage Links dialog – columns are now sortable by clicking the headers
  11. Worksharing update frequency may be changed in Options
  12. Lots of worksharing display settings updates and options
  13. Unattached voids can cut from family to project (certain categories)
  14. Point clouds tab in Manage Links
  15. DWG export – lots of new options
  16. Export Types from Family to a text file – type catalog (plus the ability to Import Family Types)

And yes – stairs, railings and topography tools are still weak…