It's that time again - a brand new version of Revit came slouching out of the Autodesk gate, only to fall directly on its face and shit its pants.
I mean... you've GOT to see what's new in Revit 2020 ya'll:
I was impressed to see that the very first 'improvements' that are listed on the Autodesk site under the bullshit-generated title of 'Capture Detailed Design Intent' were to the Electrical portion of the software - but was then immediately struck with a case of the eye-rolls when I started reading what they were bragging about finally having accomplished.
"A great example that we’re particularly pleased to release are long-requested electrical design workflow improvements." such as:
- Revit now lets you utilize feed through lugs when creating your electrical distribution systems. This capability streamlines related documentation tasks, and helps designers create a better digital model of the system to support analysis.
- Electrical homerun wiring improvements give you the control over arrowheads and tickmarks that you need to create electrical documentation that’s easier to understand and use.
And that's about it for the Electrical side of things - then it's on to glorious architectural bullshit like elliptical walls/curtain walls, and structural shit like the ability to copy rebar and structural elements.
Oh - and now you can bring .pdfs into your drawing!!! And have the ability to snap to them so you can trace them!!! I think I just came!!!
Then it's on to some cloud bullshit, and finally a toss off to the Mechanical people - the ability to export to CSV or TXT (because they've obviously solved every other shortcoming of the software for HVAC/Plumbing design).
A few more 'automation and optimization' tools that... holy shit!!! What's this? You can CUT & PASTE LEGENDS ACROSS SHEETS!!!! JOYOUS DAY!!!!
Then, since Revit doesn't already have more view settings than there are hydrogen molecules in the universe - they decided to take care of a 'top customer request' - "improved OR in view filters new in Revit 2020 lets you focus on parts of your model at a higher level of specificity and gives you further control over view graphics."
And (believe it or not) this doesn't even cover all of the new 'features' and 'updates' in Revit 2020!!!
I actually believe them - since if they had included any more descriptions, there wouldn't be a Revit Architectural/Engineering shop anywhere getting any work done at all (so, in other words, like normal) because they would be having to replace every Revitards computer screens after they get shorted out by being covered in jizz.
Fuck Revit 2020, it's just the beginning of another decade of suffering and pain for the idiots still sticking their dick in the Revit pencil sharpener.
In the meantime - MICROSTATION!!!
Not using it either, but my latest project was done in it, and the files I received were TOTAL GARBAGE. The first set I got were comically renamed by an incompetent who managed to wipe out the file extensions by naming the files A.1, A.2,, etc. (instead of A1.dgn, A2.dgn, etc.). I renamed the first one and imported it to CAD, only to find out that it would only show me walls (no doors, room names, etc.)
I had a guy at the firm we share a building with convert it from .dgn to .dwg and it was slightly better - but a lot of stuff was offset (as easy as moving it back to where it belonged), but that's when I realized they were just floor plans, with none of the equipment that should've been showing up on them. Even if it had the information I needed, there are literally over 100 buildings on this job site - and that's before you got to the site plans showing primary and secondary fiber loops, so I would've had to convert every single last one.
I had a .pdf set - and despite seriously disliking converting .pdf to .dwg, I have been trying out various programs to see which one works the best. I was rather amazed by the free demo of a program simply called 'Any PDF to DWG Convertor'. It managed to convert a several hundred page .pdf into .dwg - and the only thing it seemed to want to do was dump panel schedules and some other image files (none of which I needed) into their own .dwg's (resulting in over 600 files that I had to comb through).
I was able to compile every single building and site plan into one .dwg, get everything scaled properly, and start working on it. It's a fairly extensive project, but I shouldn't have any trouble banging it out in short order thanks to not having to wait a decade for 'design workflow improvements'.
I did run across some comically elaborate 3D elements (strangely only in one of the 100+ buildings - so it had to have been where some BIMtard got ahold of this one building and probably spent as long detailing it out as the person who did the rest of the set).
Yes, that's a toilet (1580 lines x4) and a urinal (1309 lines x 3). The keyplan reproduced the toilets, urinals AND three sinks consisting of another 9861lines- for a total of 20108 lines. They are completely inconsequential to my project, so I just deleted them.
Just like I'd like to delete Revit, and everyone still sucking the Revit dick in 2019-2020.
Fuck 'em all.
-lfuckSkul
Next Time: Pure Revit
