Can't export to CAD as shown on Screen

Dumb - dumb dumb - dumb - dumb...

Can't just make a setting called something like "Export as shown on screen"? So Revit can specify only the complex senarios that it thinks are important, not what anyone would actually want, like exactly what they produced on screen, for example.  What makes this really stupid is that someone had to create the options available.  Unfortunately Autodesk forgot why people export things, and that they own all of the software you would export to, and that it should provide an oportunity for cross-platform compatability thoughout their product line.  They just don't get it though.  Ever.

REVIT. SUCKS. BALLS.

CAD sucks to

I just wanted to give a big shout out to the AutoCAD team for fucking up the defaults for CAD blocks so that now thier nested blocks all realign their base points so everything looked FUCKED.  I FUCKING HATE YOU AUTODESK.  I should have punched Lynn Allen in the face but I know it's not her fault.  Execs are such dipshits.  Companies need bilaws to protect themselves against bonus seeking executives that cut the quality of their products for only their own short term gain.

REVIT. SUCKS. BALLS.

Dipshit Annotation Update

So,

Autodesk decided that they would fuck with the Annotations in 2017 so that anything I open before then and "update" now changes some of my text boxes width to 0 which FUCKS with everything.  I'm not even going to trouble shoot this.  Oh and a great big FUCK YOU to eveyone else at Autodesk for wasting my time at every turn.  I hope you all die.

REVIT. SUCKS. BALLS.

CAD Links

Fucking useless.  Get an error every time.  Look I don't care what system I'm on, whether it's my personal laptop, my desktop at home or a Network at the office.  This stupid fucking tool has 1 job to do - keep the fucking links.  Constant failure.  Never works right.

REVIT. SUCKS. BALLS.

Clearly Autodesk does not understand they're Architect user base

Side note - I finally met Lynn Allen (Cadalyst columnist and worldwide Autodesk Technical Evangelis) who was doing a presentation for Autodesk.  She and her colleages went over some of the verious programs that Autodesk offers, like simulation and fluid dinamics software, to a room full of mostly small architectural practices that would probably never have time to learn them effectively let alone have any need for what was shown.  But they were pleasent enough people and the presentations were nice.  

So when I asked how a room full of architects was supposed apply the countless programs offered by Autodesk to our field they said, 

"well it depends on the application." 

No shit.  Really?  So I followed up with,

"Okay then say I know the application/ what I need done.  Does Autodesk have some hierchy chart of programs they offer based on application so that I can quickly and effectively hire the right person to apply it?"

Lynn and the rest of them looked at me like a deer in headlights.

"Well no.  I can't think of anything but I'm sure you could search the forums."

Me

"Yeah alright sure.  Except that's kind of a shot in the dark as most of the participants only know the one program they work with exclusively.  And if a forum member discusses any other program, the discussion is reassigned to the corresponding programs forum so that I won't be able to find it.  Not to mention that I have to wait on an answer that may or may not get me any closer to what I'm looking for."

Them

Again just deer in headlights.

Me

"Okay well that aside.  If I do figure out which of your special programs I need for an application, now I need to hire someone effective enough to use it.  Do you have listings of certified users for this?

Them

"Why would you need to hire anyone?"

Me

"Because you just admitted to me earlier toady that someone could spend a lifetime learning just one of your programs.  I'm already spending a lifetime learning Revit.  If I'm now spending even more time finding another application specific program then it stands to reason that by that time I will need to hire someone already profficient in said program.  I also have my Real job to do remember?"

Them

"Well write us an email.  We'll try to find something."

Me

"I already have.  On more than one occassion.  To which you replied, "I'm sorry but we don't have anything like that I'm aware of."

If the proffession of Architecture is becoming more and more like a that of your general practitioner (Doctor vs Architect), who sends you to a specialist (Cardiologist vs Engineer).  Just having the tools doesn't mean anything if nothing is organized and learning to use them properly is mere speculation.  So...

REVIT.  SUCKS.  BALLS.

Renaming Legends

Yet another fuckup for Autodesk who obviosly doesn't give a shit about there customer base of architectural users.  Revit is unable to rename a Legend so if you spell anything wrong or heaven forbid your boss wants to change a field later you're fucked and have to do it all over from scratch... Which is a very big deal for a BIM program since that would totally defeat it's purpose as it obviously is unable to cordinate and update data properly.

Set line-wheights to 0? Turn line-wheights OFF? Well FUCK YOU for asking.

Heaven forbid anyone would ever want to go old school and make a PDF from a VECTOR based plot.  50% of why vector is even used is for line wheight control outside of the program.  The other 50% is for what is basically an infinate zoom in or out to whatever you want.  (In this case I wanted things to appear on an 8.5" x 11" PDF - even when I zoom way the hell in to look at something that would normally be to small to read on physical paper, like text.  Yes there are lot's of reasons for this - not having to set up a new sheet at a different scale, or add a sheet to the file size, or just adding and organizing even more documentation in general, or becuse someone wants to use the vector image to do more with zoom-ins and crops later down the road, etc...)

So what does Revit's Vector based plot option do?  Exactly the opposite of just that.  What a bunch of fucktards.  So you dumbshits at Autodesk can go through the trouble of programming the damn thing to plot an actual measured linewieght of 1 but you can't handle adding an option for NO linewheight or ZERO just like they had in CAD?  For all of the obvious reasons it was done in CAD?  For over 30 some odd years of rational, implimentation and use?  You can do in on screen with the keyboard short-cut "TL" so obviously you must understand the concept which means you're just FUCKING LAZY.

Oh and why the fuck don't my columns print in red even though they're clear as the light that shines from your ass holes on screen, in sheet and in every view I have?

Go fuck yourselves Revit team.  Once again,

REVIT SUCKS BALLS.