Just a small sneak peak of something that I’ve been working on recently. Revit users everywhere would know that the one short fall of Revit scheduling is that you can not include annotative symbols within the schedule.
Schedules are very powerful and are normally used to generate fixture counts, lighting schedules, pipework counts and the humble drawing legend. If only Revit would insert the symbols though.
I’ve been working on an alternative approach to the problem which is working great so far! I’ve created a short video with my progress. No audio or anything fancy, just showing that the concept works.
I recommend viewing the video in full screen at either ‘original’ or ‘1080p’ display settings.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQsD9JSf4Ak
How is the development coming along? This would be very useful in creating a “smart” symbols legend in Revit projects.
Development has been put on hold. It was announced at AU that schedules will support image files in Revit 2014. I want to see what the results of this will be and if it will allow us to include our symbols as images. If not, I will pick up where I left off.
What happen to this genius idea? does it exists by now?
I’ve been working on a follow up video with instructions the last week, I should have something up in the next week or two.
please let us know whe is up
Any progress on this? Or any pointers on another solution? Been waiting (somewhat) patiently with bated breath…
Hi Alyce,
Thanks for prompting me on this one. I have recorded half the video on Thursday last week, I just need to record a second part to cover 2015 as well. You should see it in the next week or two.
Awesome, can’t wait.
Also, what is the viewer you’re using on the Downloads page? I’ve been wanting to do something like that on a website I’m working on, but I couldn’t find one that was simple and lightweight.
It used to be Autodesk Freewheel, but it has been merged into part of Autodesk 360, with 360 it just uses DWF files in your 360 account. Once you’ve uploaded the DWF to 360 you get the code from 360 to embed it within an iframe.
The only problem I have with 360 compared to Freewheel is that I can’t see an easy way to set the default view, the views default to top orientation and zoomed right in. Hopefully it’s something simple that I’m overlooking or an oversight that will be fixed soon.