Hola Amigos!
It's been a minute, but I've been dicking around in Revit this morning , so I thought I'd take a moment to reiterate just what a festering sack of donkey balls it really is.
This particular project is a ridiculously long-term one, and it's a mix of Revit , CAD (and other stuff), but it continously gets revised.
I'll be working along, go to look for a file, realize 'ah fuck, that one's in Revit' then waste time waiting for Revit to open, more time waiting for the file to open, forget what the fuck I was doing, then go to work battling it to get something that would've take a me three seconds in CAD.
Oh -and just to make it even stupider , the model has been kept in the 2018 Revit format (not that they've actually improved anythig in the 7-8 years since).
I needed to make some fairly elaborate updates to some panel schedules - which is where Revit is supposed to shine (OMG - it automatically populates and calculates them, ya'll!!!), but since it would have required tracking down each piece of equipment, updating the loads, the wire sizes, breaker sizes, etc., I decided to say 'fuck it' and export them into CAD where I could make the changes in seconds.
Actually, I had already exported it to CAD previously because when we send native files for sheets, it is all CAD anyway - so it only took a minute to change the revision information and get to work.
For my own amusement, after I finished knocking out the changes, I decided to open the model, move the shitty Revit panel schedules off the sheet and replace them with my stupid linework/text, non-linked, hand calculated ones. It took me a minute to get it tweaked (battling Revit's counterintuitive bullshit every step of the way), but now it's nearly impossible to tell.
If anyone ever calls me out on it, I'll toss them out a fourth story window (and these windows don't open).
Revit Can Burn.
Until next we meet !
-SF
(Next time: ??? )
