It's not me; It's you!

After a year or more working in a certain version of Revit, it is natural to notice subtle changes when switching to a newer one. So it comes as no surprise that I’ve been noticing how difficult it is in Revit 2012 (even with SP1) to select something. I’ve had other users point out the same thing so I don’t think I’m losing my mind just yet. What’s up with that?

When hovering over objects, they used to pre-highlight seamlessly but in 2012, this seems to have broken down. I wonder if this is a side-effect of the new solid color you get when selecting something, or perhaps the ghosting functionality? Who knows…it’s really annoying and I hope it gets fixed soon!

Edit: Seems that this issue is specific to HD 3000 on-processor graphics on the second generation Intel chips (i7) and also coupled with curtain walls used for tilt-up walls (basic walls used for panels). The combination of these made things very weird when pre-highlighting but it seems that disabling hardware acceleration helps reduce the problems.

It's not me; It's you!

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??