Quick export tip & Announcement

First the announcement. I’m sure you know by now that AU registration is open. So if you’re lucky and have the opportunity to go, make sure you sign up for Fuzzy Math Essentials! It’s going to be a great class with an outstanding cast. I’m very sad about not presenting again this year, but I know it’s in very good hands.

Now for the quick tip. I have encountered a couple of cases where someone tries to export a plan view that has electrical outlets to a DWG file and the result has missing outlets. It has happened more than once and when I see that, I always think it’s more than just an isolated problem. It seems that the culprit is usually some filled region in your view, so the workaround is to get rid of the filled region and the fixtures will export just fine. This obviously is not a perfect solution but can get you past the hurdle. You can always combine the hatches from the defective DWG into the one that shows the outlets correctly. Hopefully this will get fixed in an upcoming release.

Quick export tip & Announcement

Who’s dragging my stuff??

Today was the second time this happened to me in 2010. When I select an object in the canvas, the Options Bar (docked under the ribbon) seems to double itself between 2 to 4 times, then the ribbon refreshes and the duplicates disappear. A side-effect of this though is that whatever you selected in the canvas gets dragged vertically automatically. Very annoying and causes tons of issues as it happens with every object selection. This issue seems to happen on a laptop with a docking station and second monitor setup (mine was set as main monitor).

Yesterday I plugged the laptop into a projector and this seems to have made Revit freak out. So today I couldn’t work on my usual setup. Moving the Options Bar to the bottom puts an end to the madness, however I don’t like it docked there.

Thinking it’s a Ribbon issue, I decided to reset my QAT using the vbscript that Autodesk released earlier. That didn’t do it either, so I restored it back from the backup.

I finally got it to behave again by undocking (still logged into Windows) while Revit was open, then I closed Revit, re-docked (still logged in) and re-opened Revit. I had previously done a series of shut-downs, restarting without docking or attaching a second display etc. but none worked. Not sure what is going on but the above got the job done. I have not filed this with support yet.

EDIT: Click HERE to learn about suggestions from Autodesk Support. You might also want to take a look at “What Revit Wants” in this POST by Luke!

Who’s dragging my stuff??