I finally got around to installing 2015 ACAD (mainly to try to figure out a problem another 2015 ACAD user was having with it being convinced it wanted to snap to the grid, even when grid snaps (and the grid) are turned off. It seems to be someone fucked with the object vs. grid snap settings causing F9 to toggle it between object and grid snap rather than object and NO FUCKING SNAPS GODDAMMIT.
Switching it from Grid to Polar snaps seemed to help - but why isn't there an option for NO FUCKING SNAPS GODDAMMIT!?!? Basically, I never want to have any fucking thing automatically snap to any fucking thing - ever. If I want to draw a line and have it snap to an end/mid/center whatever - I have already typed l, enter, mid/end/etc. (all in a fraction of a second) and if I want to keep going from end point to end point I'm pressing the up arrow and enter each time. To the uninitiated it might seems like extra steps - but it's part of the rhythm that gets built up around the way I use ACAD.
If I am in a situation where I'm doing a metric fuckton of snaps, I will enable it, but I'm currently having to keep it enabled, without any object snap options checked in order to draw whatever I want wherever I want however I want (the entire point of ACAD).
Anyway - the fact that it was having fucked up problems like this right out of the gate didn't fare well for my no-holds-barred opinion and review of this wank-tastic piece of shit. Once I installed it on my machine it immediately ran into problem #2 - something is preventing it from coming up quickly (despite 2014 ACAD/Revit AND 2015 Revit not having a problem). I'm holding out hope for an in-house solution for this one, but it's just one more arbitrary speed bump on the way to greatness.
Once it finally came up, I went to work disabling all of the various bullshit that someone somewhere might use, but 99.9% of which is just in my fucking way. First item was getting rid of the tabs (newtabmode=0) - I will give them credit, it's a cute idea (and can be disabled), but it's not fucking happening. Since I don't generally have a lot of drawings open to begin with, and can easily scroll through them with ctrl+tab, it would just be another thing taking up valuable real-estate (not to mention it apparently gives some people fatal errors).
Next was to make it to where when ACAD opened, I get a drawing instead of a useless 'front' or 'cover', which seems to be a new trend in software - and is definitely a Revit staple (since if Revit came up to even an empty template it would add 3-4 minutes to it's loading time), but in ACAD it makes sense to have it be ready for action (even if I immediately open another .dwg file - the initial one would be ready to rock if I need to just start sketching, or if I need a temp file to paste-in and cleanup a drawing).
Switching the background to BLACK instead of washed out gray, getting rid of the coordinates at the cursor, getting lines that extend out from the cursor to the edges of the screen, disable the viewcube and a few other random things - then it was on to the Ribbon. It's easy to get rid of - and prompted me to go ahead and set up my own workspace (not sure if there is another way to kill it), which allowed me to tweak a few other items.
I never import settings from previous versions - it's a guarantee for headaches. The only minorly time-consuming thing I had to do once I had killed everything else - including all of the crap at the bottom of the screen (with one exception, which we will get to in a moment) was to set up my Quick Access Toolbar or 'QAT'. It's simple with a screenshot of my 2014 setup, and seems to be working great, except for the occasions when it will decide to FUCKING DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY.
Restarting brings it back - and I was running it through a pretty serious set of customization and other settings, so we'll see if it settles down. If not, that's one MOTHERFUCKER of an oversight, and will need to get fixed ASAP, along with this snap/grid bullshit, and speed of opening. The only other thing I wasn't able to get set up exactly like my 2014 ACAD was to have a quick view for paperspace tabs. Now, I don't fucking use paper space, but it is necessary if I open someone else's drawing that has been done in paperspace (I disabled the model/layout on the lower left too).
Fortunately a QAT icon takes care of this for me (as long as I can remember that's where it is now), leaving only the 'type a keyword or phrase'/'sign in' bullshit in the upper right (which I can ignore), and the aforementioned icon in the lower right (for hide/isolate objects) that I can't seem to get the fuck rid of. Actually there are two icons down there - but one is for customization, and to tell the truth, even with hide/isolate, it is cleaner than 2014, so I think I'll leave it be (although if anyone knows how to get rid of it, feel free to chime in - in ACAD less is always more).
All that - just to get a huge empty drawing space with one line at the top (w/QAT), one transparent line for minimize/maximize/close, and one line at the bottom (basically wasted space - but not a problem). I'll be adding any more good/bad/different/totally fucked items as I find them (which I'm sure I will).
I only have one additional concern with this release -all of this Revshit vs ACAD drama causes me to view every shortcoming in this latest release to be intentionally removing or breaking functionality in ACAD to force people over to Revit. It definitely gives the Reviteers something to hoot and holler and throw feces about with - but of course they will be too busy Reviting to notice that my (fairly short) list of items will probably all get worked out in short order, while their software will continue to languish in development hell.
But you know what I always say - FUCK 'EM.
Twice.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
App Crapp
Anyone paying attention knows I complain a lot about how Revit sucks donkey balls, but it pales in comparison to the horrible programming that goes into various online or phone/tablet based 'apps' - up to, and including the ACAD app (which has apparently since morphed into Autodesk 360 - I have to admit, these people do stay fucking busy rearranging deck chairs).
While hunting around on the Google Play Store (I don't frequent the Apple store - fuck those people) I ran across what appears to be Autodesk's attempt at a sketchup style program called 'Formit'. Pretty impressive for an app - but there are always going to be trade-offs, even if you let cloud computing do the heavy lifting for you.
I never used Sketchup (past just playing with it), and won't be using Formit (same) - at least not for work, since neither are intended to address the specific needs of the Electrical discipline, but it brings up an interesting point.
If Autodesk was really thinking from the perspective of an 'ecosystem' (see the Revitbot article I posted last time), they wouldn't be developing dozens of sets of software (although the other option would be to have Revit absorb all of them into one broken piece of shit).
While pondering the reasons that Revit users might be so dead-fucking-set on using it to fuck up every single project that comes through their door it it got me thinking about how few of the most hardcore ones have any real concept of how to approach the various complexities of their discipline.
For example - a Revit Monkey designs an Architectural model, and it can look 'perfect' with everything all detailed out, and the client can 'ooh' and 'ahh' and 'I think I just came' while looking at it, but it's not until someone with the correct mix of experience and institutional knowledge gets a look at it that the cracks in the facade start to show.
The vast majority of Revitbots have never seen a building built - and almost none have had any actual experience building anything past scale models (if even that). The fact is - they are dependent on Revit to hold their hand through an extremely complex and detailed process. I, on the other hand, am not dependent on any piece of software to either help me engineer or design construction documents.
We had our server up and eat itself yesterday (and took down all of our Autodesk software with it). I opened up Visual, whipped out a file that I had in my e-mail, started doing photometric layouts, and didn't miss a fucking lick while they got the server back online (only to have it promptly fail again). I tend to blame Revit for everything, but there is no fucking way that all of the massive bloated files it generates and then requires constant synchronization (even before you get to auto-saves - and remember 2015 defaults to 15 fucking auto-saves, each one taking up as much room as your main model) aren't contributing heavily to the problems.
Now - even to work in ACAD, I am dependent on a functioning computer, license server, file server, and network to have my shit work correctly. Imagine the day I get to add an internet connection, cloud storage/processing, etc. into the mix. Any time any one of those were to have a glitch, it has Reviteers sitting on their asses until everything is corrected (and then for another 15-30 minutes while they get their files back up and synced).
Then take the whole fucking mess, and make it hinge on an web application operating properly - 100% of the fucking time. If it is browser based, the browser OR servers on the other end can crash, if it is cloud hosted - who the fuck even knows what the fuck is going on at any given point in time? I haven't quite grasped how people can trust their incredibly important shit to technology that note a SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEM even knows the first thing about.
Since Revit is already such a laggy piece of shit, it can be difficult to tell when it starts taking a serious crap. I've thought I was doing something wrong on more than one occasion, only to find out that it was Revit diddling itself - with no indication as to what it is doing at any given point in time (like the ACAD text window does).
I really do hate to tell all of the Revit dreamers out there to get their fucking heads out of the clouds (rimshot) and back down here on the ground where shit needs to get done. Their faces always change to quizzical expressions 'why you no Revit?'
What I don't mind doing is telling them to go fuck themselves, along with Autodesk, and anyone propagating the Revit machine.
Fuck all of them - twice.
-SF
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Is Revit Dead?
Bonjour Motherfuckers.
I think I'm going to wait a little while before I weigh in on Revit Sundial (these people could fuck up a sundial) because I haven't been able to ascertain whether it is being floated as the replacement for regular computer based Revit, or if it will just be a cloud hosted option. I'll be researching both that, and any other dildos that Autodesk might be inclined to force down in the industries throat - if anyone has any more solid information regarding Sundial, feel free to post in the comments.
In the meantime I just happened to run across this guy's article (I was digging through a few, but I keep running into that problem of 90% of content/message board conversations/etc. on the web related to Revit being at least 4-5 years old, most of it appearing to center around 2011):
http://www.seandburke.com/blog/2014/03/29/is-revit-dead/
He is reassuring his fellow Revitbots that, yes, the sparkle ponies and rainbows shooting out of your ass are STILL out on there on the horizon - somewhere (along with 'infinite computing' which will be necessary to handle the bloated shitware they keep cranking out), and in the meantime they should relax, because Autodesk is, quote: 'in it for the long haul'. Yes ladies and gentlemen - Autodesk has it's sites set on the next generation (you know, the one that spends all it's time staring at smart phones).
Oh wait - he already made an analogy about i-phones replacing computers (even though they haven't). Hell - why the fuck not just have Revit on your phone? (I certainly have ACAD on mine), then you don't have to stop twatting, facebooking, or otherwise vining your snapchats in order to be bothered to do your fucking job.
He is trying to touch on a broad subject of 'what's next', so he does tend to jump from topic to topic - talking about a Revit 'ecosystem' (read: clusterfuck) one minute, and another reveling about the 'end' of the exclusive focus on Windows based programs, forgetting (again) that you need one MOTHERFUCKER of a machine to run Revit (and it is still fucking unstable). The idea that a cloud-hosted app is going to be able to function seamlessly - and not end up fucking you so far into a hole in the ground that you will beg for death is a fucking myth at this point, and will continue to be so for some time into the future.
Oh - people will do it. Just like they get sucked into every other ignorant fucking thing that comes along claiming to be 'the new shit'. They will ignore real innovation in exchange for over-simplified and dumbed down garbage aimed at the lowest common denominator. I think it was George Carlin (RIP) who said 'Think about how stupid the average person is - now consider that half of people are stupider than that'.
I'll jump track for just a second to re-iterate my honest opinion that the vast majority of technological 'innovations' and the products that they spawn are a fucking joke. What's happened is that people have fallen for the fucking advertisements and the 'thrill' of getting to shell out their money for poorly designed, cheaply made crap that espouses the 'planned obsolescence' philosophy.
I'm no fucking luddite - I'm just sick and fucking tired of listening to people hold forth on the topic of 'technology' when they don't know ANYTHING about that technology. They will speculate wildly and make uneducated observations about what it 'could' do (rather than what it is *supposed* to do). The reality is that Autodesk doesn't give a shit about forwarding any of the various concepts this guy talks about - they ONLY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT MAKING MONEY.
It would seem to be in their best interest to do whatever is necessary to make people happy so they will purchase their product - but they've broken the fucking system. The vast majority of Revit users don't buy or choose to use Revit (even the ones who claim to love getting fucked in the ass by it). It gets handed down from above. Autodesk could give a fuck if Revit users are happy and productive - as long as they keep raking in that MOTHERFUCKING CASH.
The Revitbots have deluded themselves into thinking that this is the be-all, end-all - read through the comments on that page and you will see a few attempts at speaking logic to dumbfuckery - but this guy does the same kind of shit that all brainwashed Revit hive-mind pieces of shit do, which is to claim that Revit is going to make huge advances in the next version, while simultaneously withholding his opinion on whether or not it will have 'value' until it is released and ignoring the track record.
I will give him credit for acknowledging that the MEP portion of Revit (which came along later) is less developed than the Architectural version. I can guarantee he doesn't actually know what he means when he says that (see: 'wild speculations' and 'uneducated observations), or how it might affect the disciplines that he is dragging into the 'future'.
The future of Revit is unwritten, but unless people get their heads out of their asses and start demanding real advancements, fixes, stability, and (most of all) INTUITIVE INTERFACES - and refuse to settle for bullshit placation, it will continue down the road to hell (paved, as always, with the best intentions).
I just happened to run across this - kudos to http://bimopedia.com/2013/04/02/revit-death-trap/
It perfectly represents the Revit experience, mentality, and end result of allowing a motherfucking two-bit software company to dictate how the fuck you do your goddamned job.
Fuck Autodesk, Fuck Revit, Fuck Revitbots, and if you don't like it - you can take a motherfucking step out that door bitch!!! (You don't have to worry though - the spikes were designed in Revit, so they probably won't work).
-KCuFLLuKSKuLLFuCK
I think I'm going to wait a little while before I weigh in on Revit Sundial (these people could fuck up a sundial) because I haven't been able to ascertain whether it is being floated as the replacement for regular computer based Revit, or if it will just be a cloud hosted option. I'll be researching both that, and any other dildos that Autodesk might be inclined to force down in the industries throat - if anyone has any more solid information regarding Sundial, feel free to post in the comments.
In the meantime I just happened to run across this guy's article (I was digging through a few, but I keep running into that problem of 90% of content/message board conversations/etc. on the web related to Revit being at least 4-5 years old, most of it appearing to center around 2011):
http://www.seandburke.com/blog/2014/03/29/is-revit-dead/
He is reassuring his fellow Revitbots that, yes, the sparkle ponies and rainbows shooting out of your ass are STILL out on there on the horizon - somewhere (along with 'infinite computing' which will be necessary to handle the bloated shitware they keep cranking out), and in the meantime they should relax, because Autodesk is, quote: 'in it for the long haul'. Yes ladies and gentlemen - Autodesk has it's sites set on the next generation (you know, the one that spends all it's time staring at smart phones).
Oh wait - he already made an analogy about i-phones replacing computers (even though they haven't). Hell - why the fuck not just have Revit on your phone? (I certainly have ACAD on mine), then you don't have to stop twatting, facebooking, or otherwise vining your snapchats in order to be bothered to do your fucking job.
He is trying to touch on a broad subject of 'what's next', so he does tend to jump from topic to topic - talking about a Revit 'ecosystem' (read: clusterfuck) one minute, and another reveling about the 'end' of the exclusive focus on Windows based programs, forgetting (again) that you need one MOTHERFUCKER of a machine to run Revit (and it is still fucking unstable). The idea that a cloud-hosted app is going to be able to function seamlessly - and not end up fucking you so far into a hole in the ground that you will beg for death is a fucking myth at this point, and will continue to be so for some time into the future.
Oh - people will do it. Just like they get sucked into every other ignorant fucking thing that comes along claiming to be 'the new shit'. They will ignore real innovation in exchange for over-simplified and dumbed down garbage aimed at the lowest common denominator. I think it was George Carlin (RIP) who said 'Think about how stupid the average person is - now consider that half of people are stupider than that'.
I'll jump track for just a second to re-iterate my honest opinion that the vast majority of technological 'innovations' and the products that they spawn are a fucking joke. What's happened is that people have fallen for the fucking advertisements and the 'thrill' of getting to shell out their money for poorly designed, cheaply made crap that espouses the 'planned obsolescence' philosophy.
I'm no fucking luddite - I'm just sick and fucking tired of listening to people hold forth on the topic of 'technology' when they don't know ANYTHING about that technology. They will speculate wildly and make uneducated observations about what it 'could' do (rather than what it is *supposed* to do). The reality is that Autodesk doesn't give a shit about forwarding any of the various concepts this guy talks about - they ONLY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT MAKING MONEY.
It would seem to be in their best interest to do whatever is necessary to make people happy so they will purchase their product - but they've broken the fucking system. The vast majority of Revit users don't buy or choose to use Revit (even the ones who claim to love getting fucked in the ass by it). It gets handed down from above. Autodesk could give a fuck if Revit users are happy and productive - as long as they keep raking in that MOTHERFUCKING CASH.
The Revitbots have deluded themselves into thinking that this is the be-all, end-all - read through the comments on that page and you will see a few attempts at speaking logic to dumbfuckery - but this guy does the same kind of shit that all brainwashed Revit hive-mind pieces of shit do, which is to claim that Revit is going to make huge advances in the next version, while simultaneously withholding his opinion on whether or not it will have 'value' until it is released and ignoring the track record.
I will give him credit for acknowledging that the MEP portion of Revit (which came along later) is less developed than the Architectural version. I can guarantee he doesn't actually know what he means when he says that (see: 'wild speculations' and 'uneducated observations), or how it might affect the disciplines that he is dragging into the 'future'.
The future of Revit is unwritten, but unless people get their heads out of their asses and start demanding real advancements, fixes, stability, and (most of all) INTUITIVE INTERFACES - and refuse to settle for bullshit placation, it will continue down the road to hell (paved, as always, with the best intentions).
I just happened to run across this - kudos to http://bimopedia.com/2013/04/02/revit-death-trap/
It perfectly represents the Revit experience, mentality, and end result of allowing a motherfucking two-bit software company to dictate how the fuck you do your goddamned job.
Fuck Autodesk, Fuck Revit, Fuck Revitbots, and if you don't like it - you can take a motherfucking step out that door bitch!!! (You don't have to worry though - the spikes were designed in Revit, so they probably won't work).
-KCuFLLuKSKuLLFuCK
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