More Revit Faceplant

Little project that I thought I could slap out in Revit is still around - ever changing.

It still looks like shit too - especially considering the amount of time I put into it, and have continued to put into it as change after change comes down the pike.

I'm having to cram more and more information into the drawing - which is typical.  My drawings start off with basic information, and become more and more dense (physically and metaphorically) with information until they are complete.

Being able to easily adjust and juggle things around is key to this process - I'm going to reiterate, so much of what I do on my drawings has nothing to do with electrical engineering.  I am attempting to turn out clear, easy to read drawings - and one of the things that makes this process difficult is that I am attempting to show symbols, text, etc. in rooms of various sizes - some of which have millwork, etc. in the way.

I attempt to not have anything overlap - and have developed many tricks over the years to keep my drawings from looking like shit, being confusing, difficult to read, etc. - I try not to squeeze text (too much), have twelve drawings to show what I can show on one or two, or have information spread out too far with leader lines strewn everywhere (all of these are things I've seen people have trouble with regardless of what software they use, but when you are doing it 'the Revit way' you get the Revit dick.

The 'bump' tool is cute - especially because I happened to run across a key piece of information - and that is pressing 'shift' while bumping with the arrow keys makes it jump in larger increments.  I know that a lot of people don't like the bump tool because they prefer to have everything in exact increments - of course, this is kind of difficult to do, since everything you stick into a drawing typically has to be entered, and then adjusted anyway.

What gets annoying is when you are trying to tweak something just a little bit, and it starts throwing up errors of varying meaninglessness because you moved something an inch past where it can comprehend that it is still attached.  Like a receptacle symbol that you try to squeeze into a small place - the receptacle itself fits - the symbol shouldn't give a fuck whether or not it is 'hosted' for fucks sake.

Sigh....

As always - fuck the people responsible for Revit, as well as every single person with the Revit dick wedged in their eye-sockets.

And as always - might as well make it 'fuck 'em twice' for good measure.