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Designing the Revit User Experience. Gain insight into the strategies and processes for designing the Autodesk Revit® platform products. Learn how enhancements to the Revit user interface can benefit your daily design tasks, sharpen your competitive advantage, and improve your overall Revit user experience.

  • Revit Server Survey
    It's that time of year when we are in information gathering and validation mode. Here is a survey request going out to our Revit Server users posted on behalf of our Revit Platform Feature Product Manager Richard Taylor: We have...

  • More on Selection (Links & Underlay)
    When looking over the state of any feature in Revit it can often lead to a trip down the proverbial "Rabbit Hole". So far on the topic of selection I have covered Press & Drag, and touched on Chain select....

  • Windows Vista Compatibility
    Now for a bit of news... Microsoft Vista support will be discontinued for new 2012 Autodesk products (Revit included) Windows XP & 7 are still supported. See the following link for more information: http://autode.sk/xY3PHO

  • Chain Select
    First thank you all for the relatively large amount comments on the previous selection post (Press & Drag) that can still be found here. Again the best comments explain why you use it one way or another since that helps...

  • Revit Schedules: A Love Hate relationship
    Posted on behalf of David Conant - Principal User Experience Designer: A product like Revit that is moving from adolescence to early maturity needs to revisit its roots periodically to make sure that it is not coasting on early glory....

  • Press & Drag?
    Everyone familiar with this little guy? This control defines what happens when you click on an element and drag while holding the button down. It defaults to being enabled. Behavior When enabled the element under the mouse down action will...

  • Project Browser Research
    I'm in the midst of conducting some research related to the Project Browser and wish to crowd source some of this with our readers. For this specific effort I desire to better understand current usage and context. To this end...

  • Revit Spaghetti
    Back in September, a little Revit add-in named Dynamo made the rounds through the blog/twitter-sphere. Dynamo is an early exploration into programming for Revit. It was created by Ian Keough, Solution Architect at Vela systems. Ian developed some serious Revit...

  • eTransmit update for Revit now on Autodesk Labs
    eTransmit for Revit – Technology Preview 1.1 The eTransmit for Revit team is pleased to announce that a new version of the eTransmit for Revit technology preview is now available for free download from Autodesk Labs. This preview is available...

  • Intersecting Roofs
    Taking a break from news and design to share some techniques for roof making in Revit. In northern climates roofs are often steeply pitched to shed snow. Many structures in New England have collapsed because they failed to follow that...