No File Name Label

Unavailable.  They have a File Path label (god knows why anyone would prefer this) but NO FILE NAME LABEL.  What a bunch of fucktards.  I don't want the whole world knowing our companies file path and server structure.  It's a potential secutiry risk.  Not to mention that a file path is just fucking stupid for most applications and can take up a good chunk of space on a page.  Once again, I don't think Autodesk really knows what Revit is for.  They obviously don't know thier customers very well.  Text options in general are just awful.  I'm so so so god dammed sick of ass holes coming up with excuses for why it's "the best thing out there".

If your car worked like Revit did, you would have to read the manual first and then add one small piece every time you went to the garage before you could final drive off with it a year later.  If that was the best anyone could do and cars had only been out for a few years I think we could live with that becuase of the obvious benifits and the fact that we assume the product will probably get better because more people will get to play with it's form and applications.

Well well well, with Revit, the car industry (and this is mediphor) was already invented.  And cars were almost built and ready to go.  You could almost get in one and drive off.  But Autodesk bought all of the other companies that were doing anything and put their development to bed.  They bought Rockefeller before he could synthesize oil and market gas efficiantly.  They bought Ford before he could finish making the first Model-T.  They stopped contruction on the roads before they actually went anywhere.  And then they layed it on everyone's lap and said here, "WE started the process now YOU go and finish it... but you can't do this, that or these other things.  I mean you could theoretically do this or that but we've decided we won't let you and we're not going to tell you why."

Does it save me time in drawing sections?  Sure.  But only after I've had to customize every stupid feature in the program.  If that doesn't tie your hands behind your back on a project enough, they decided not to allow any customization to Labels or Text in general.  These fuck heads think they're Apple or something and can simplify everything.  Well, great idea Autodesk except you forgot that the only way that EVER works is if you truly understand the user's intenent, offer a complete experience/tools in light of that and then only advertise to that extent.  And that's taken Apple's entire reputation and lifetime to figure out, even still meeting some negative press from time to time.

Revit is just FUBAR'ed becuase they half-assed everything, did not understand what people would be using it for, misguided their market by not specifying what it's really meant for (CD's I'm told.  And only CD's really).  There is no "out-of-the-box" with Revit and it defeats the purpose of it's own existance by it's overall lack of usefulness and long winded requirements to get it up and running.  And if you thought you could cutomize it to be the proper pinical of enlighted graphical bliss, they made sure there's no back door to do so.  Merry Christmas!

REVIT SUCKS BALLS

Voids

Oh for fuck sake.

Voids do not show properly in plan.  Cut a void through a Wall Family and it looks like shit in plan.  Shows reverse fill and cut lines were there should be none.  Checked my visibility settings, view range, cut with void, reference planes.  Fuck all.  I hate you Revit team.  Choke on my dick.

REVIT SUCKS BALLS

Stairs

Fucking stairs.

REVIT SUCKS BALLS

Combine multiple selected views/sheets into a single file

NEVER works the first time around.  I always have to go through the same exact process at least twice before it decides to cooperate.  I don't change any settings.  I just have to do the same plot process over again any time I want to combine PDFs.  So the option to makes things more efficient was never sufficiantely tested for efficiency?  Retarted.  No one over there stops to ask, "Hey anyone think we need to test this software before releasing it?" Oh wait, argg... I keep forgetting.  They expect the Users to test it all for them and submit feedback in forums or error replies.  But wait, that can't be true either becuase they never address any of the bugs or issues that we post so...  I guess...

REVIT SUCKS BALLS

Transfer Project Standards - Object Styles & Materials

Doesn't do either.  Tried Purging Materials and Object Styles (Purging... ugh... another fuckup that I'm sure will come up for me to blog about at another time).  That made no difference though, as would be expected.  Yeah yeah yeah I hear what your thinking.  Maybe if I had a more positave outlook and started to expect it to work then things might actually start working for me right?  Hah.  Yeah that's how it started.  Blind trust in the fact that maybe I just had more to learn.  That maybe I just needed a minimum level of knowlege and then the flood gates would open.  How niave I was.  How niave...  Anyway, cheers to it being friday and love and peace and good wishes to all except those on the Revit team.  I hope they all die.  And as always, please remember kiddies that...

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Seriously? They're lines!

Jesus Fuck.  Okay, so today I drew myself a boundary line.  Half the lines don't show up in print.  Clear as day on the screen.  Nothing on paper.  Repeat the process.  Parts now missing on screen and on papare.  Hover over the lines and the full outline appears (obviously it remembers the lines I drew).  Move mouse away and lines disapear.  Now I'm redrawing lines becuase I don't have the time to TOUBLE SHOOT YOUR FUCKING SHITTY SOFTWARE AUTODESK.  You fucking suck balls and I hope all of your execs die from horrible diseases that they have to suffer through for years.  Fucking lines.  THEY'RE FUCKING LINES.  So once again, please go and fuck yourself if you work for them. To anyone else, peace, love and joy and always remember that if you think you know what a line is you really don't because...

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Materials - Hello!

Revit's UI for Materials sucks balls.  It's still a complete bitch to work with.  Again, where the fuck are the shortcuts?  Why do we need to close property windows only to get to the material through another pallet?  It should all be linked.  THE SHIT SHOULD ALL BE LINKED.  It's the same problem across the board with any function in Revit. Get a clue from SketchUp for Christ sake.  Easiest Material Browser on the face of the earth and completely intuitive.  How the fuck does anyone makes things so complicated?  Oh wait that's easy, by not giving a shit about the end user.  These dickheads can't even make basic functions anything less than a pain in the ass to use.  What the hell are they even doing designing software?  Just hand it to someone else, Autodesk.  You have no business in software anymore.  You can't seem to focus on your real products. You only focus on gimmicks.  Simplify god dammit.  SIMPLIFY.  Your products will get better,  Your profits will go up.  And best of all, and you'll really like this one Autodesk because this is what you're best at, you'd have plausible deniability for anything you put our there!  You could get the fuck out of the way and have more time for whatever the hell you execs do all day, which has got to be a total cluster fuck so you know that needs some attention.  I can't imagine some of these fixes taking more than 1 or 2 guys to come up with solutions but instead for the next decade and more...

Revit Sucks Balls