Ross Harris

Revit specs Here and it's pc only. There has been a huge amount of requests for a mac version, but Autodesk have said it's a Firm No. The only thing I'd increase over the Revit specs above is the graphics card - go big as the new graphics engine gradually rolling out leans heavily on the graphics card now and ram - can never have too much as you need to factor in all the other ram gobbling stuff... Like chrome. The desktop and laptop in my sig handle Revit perfectly fine with everything I've thrown at it so far. Plus it's not crashed once in the last 12 months of more or less being the daily driver on commercial/industrial projects.

Yeah... Exactly. This sort of behavior will go along way to making long term customers who have valid reasons and need time to reassess finances think harder about alternatives. To be fair, if Revit cloud import and file health checker are the carrots to swing me over to a subscription... things will need to considerably compelling than that. There's really nothing in the public roadmap that blows my socks off to part with more cash to be frank.

Of course. But the point is the sudden turn to a passive aggressive subscription marketing blitz seems a sorta targetted at the 'straglers' sticking with Service Select.. If things get tight, at least with Revit, I can down grade a $4500 NZD a year sub to a $850 NZD a year sub and still be able to do 90% of what I do in Revit with LT and cover the other 10% in workarounds. Theres no safety net like this in VW from a subscription point of view - the perpetual version SS ends on is only a fallback until license authentication stops, and without a doubt it will one day.

Exactly what I'm doing. I've had an email a day this week on snatching a great deal going to a sub.. In the first email it says 'even though your renewal is not until August 2026... ' Its super annoying.

Or better still, Have "Vectorworks Core" and then tick to add the modules/tool sets you want.

For All you x files fans out there...

There is no coordinate system set up all buildings I do are at 0,0 and I have no need to georef. Imagine a porch with three external walls, run an internal wall off the return wall, put a dimension across the porch width and try to get that dim to make the wall wider.. it won't until I unjoin the internal wall. I also make a new template and workspace file for each new version. I've seen migrated files make VW look like it's possessed.. It's a free for all here in NZ.... There is no standard. Bim managers from overseas that work for the consultants I collab will all say the same thing.... NZ is in the ice age of bim adoption and is prehistoric compared to the rest of the world. Its a mess and there is no one to lead it, the government ministry responsible for building certainly doesnt care. This time around I'm rebuilding my Revit library with good families, ones that I cleanse or make myself. What's likely to happen is the NZ specific Masterspec CBI system will be adopted. Kiwis have a knack of thinking we can do things better than follow established standards...

The thing that has amazed me, now that I'm well into my second major Revit project is just how much more productive I am and shines a huge light on VW bottlenecks that seem small in isolation, but add up to a tonne of wasted time. Viewport updating being one and walls either not staying joined or refusing to move when you have junctions with other wall styles resulting unjoining and rejoining them. I didn't expect to enjoy the experience based on my last full time use 10 years ago. The other thing is the huge amount of locally available manufacturer products available as Revit families since then. It's like being in a candy store and not all of its bad either. I was thinking I'd retain VW for residential...but this experience has me second guessing that thought...

Heh... It's actually not as hard as it's made out... Start with simple things and you're off. Plus there are bazillion you tube videos on this stuff that to be honest are in a different league to the amateur hour often found on the university which you have to be paid up to access..

Like I said it's a litmus test to me personally. There are business decisions for moving on because having to collab with everyone else on Revit is beyond painful and means I loose control of the model because it's in someone else's construction cloud tenant. Then there's getting good staff when I need them - they all use Revit and a lesser extent archicad. Aside from those, that teaser thread is full of 'cant do that yet, it's coming, etc which sounds all too familiar. Ultimately a whiz bang window tool doesn't solve the issues elsewhere...

@Tom W. like I said a ray of light... But to be the only one in how long? Plus the aforementioned bug... We were promised that subs would allow them to better resource bugs/enhancements/continual refinement/etc, yet here we are. Or maybe it's not working as advertised becuase something else is mucking it up that's not a priority to look at. So, um yeah 'well get around to it '

@line-weight yes yes and yes...

There is a big difference between saying a feature has been delivered and ticking it off the list to said feature being well designed, functionally complete and intuitive to use. They have been mostly let donw in the planning stage, unfinished with 'coming soon!' caveats that often never come or are half baked by design. For example: Back referencing: whoever thought it was acceptable to have to go into a dialog to select the right option for every viewport clearly hasn't had to do this in a big set of drawings. Why is there not the ability to set a default back ref mode so it just automaticall back refs?? I'd rather get a root canal than do this, but mostly I don't bother anymore to save RSI. Countertop tool: The ability to have a symbol cut a hole was genius. Except to accurately model an undermount sink set down or drainage grooves cutting into in the countertop means you have to go into the cutting symbol and offset it from the origin to get it right - completely unituative and most users woudln't know how to begin doing this. Would it have been so hard to have an offset control? Apparently. The lol moment was when a few users asked why there was no offset function post release... Object visibility: So close.. the only thing its missing is a modifier to allow you to unhide an obect and if the pref is set to hidden, it temporaraily makes the hidden stuff ghosted, so you can see what you are undoing. But no, its go select a differnt mode and when done switch it back which is disruputive when you are constantly doing that. Its like there is no thought beyond 'this hows its always been done so thats fine 👍' Seemingly a ray of light; I'd like to think that this was the beginning of something to get hopeful about, but.. The UI: It was really just a lick of paint... and now years after that drop... there is no further development on making it a great UI.We're stuck with fixed widths that are either to wide or narrow, a sea of empty bar cos its all shoved at one end - this looks jarring on big monitors. And we are still stuck with palettes on the left side that can never rember where they are meant to go. Annotations... The grid tool is, as a 2d annotation perfect - control over every aspect of how it looks in the style dialog. Its just stupid because it has no smarts with.. ahem... structural members or the like. Why can't this be the case with the detail callout and section/elevation markers? Its like they got to those and went 'uhh near enough... its better than what they had lol'. But its so customisable I hear you say - only if you want to set up a bunch of classes to control things that should be in the style dialog.. Titleblocks: an upgrade sure, but why do I have to refresh the scale all the time? Why can't it detect that? Revisions... it shoudn't be this manual. VW truly is a collection of stuff that doesn't work holistically or with other tools/things. Cabinet tool. A few kitchen designers got overly hopeful in that it might do away with the need for interiorcad... nope. Designing by dialog box is just too inflexible for a profession that is highly creative - who did they bring in to develop this tool? Clearly not the cabinetmaking industry... The ones I know who haven't gone off to sketchup or Rhino don't use it and just model solids.. Railing tool: the demo videos looked great - but when you use it you realise that it wasn't been put through its paces to show off how good it is, but rather a carefuly curated set of applications to avoid showing how janky it is.. Materials: When that was released there were apprently 'big plans'. Were they on a badly named PDF and get accidentally deleted? Styles: There was a statement a few years back to the effect of 'everything will be styled!' Well, if annotations are anything to go by, the steam train ran out of coal. AI Enhancer. Just lol. Or should it be cry emoji that good money and time was wasted on this when so much else is not right.. Good indicator of how they view the truckloads of cash rolling in from subs should be used. The structural member too - the pièce de résistance! The poster child! Perfect in the way that it encapsulates everything thats wrong with development at VW HQ. Poorly designed, poorly executed, left to rot. Give the thing a funeral. There has been a mountain of feedback on this tool in the hope that it might get some love and be a functional wonder. VW might be listening (as they always say) but really, when all you here is 🦗🦗🦗🦗it feels more like internal culture is the problem than a cash issue.

I believe it's the version where service select is axed or where you decide to stop paying it. Don't quote me on that! You should also have the ability to download the last perp version from the customer portal as you'll still have access to that post What will most likely bring on obselecance will be MacOS - you'd need to keep a mac that can run the last known OS the VW version you stop at will work on without problems. Windows tends to have much longer forward compatibility.

I've seen the internal process around tasks for features as I used to work for a distributor and provide training. Hence why I'm so disenfranchised - especially when it comes to the user wishes and competitor analysis. So many missed opportunities to nail it.