It takes users quite a while to realize they can edit the detail number of a viewport on a sheet. Why? Because discoverability is lacking. You have to select the viewport first, and then pick the detail number on the view title to edit it. Why aren't we able to click the view title directly and edit away? Ahhh, frequent thoughts...
I'm going to try and start posting about a few things that pop frequently in my mind. I'm sure you can relate to this feeling, where you wonder why Revit does or doesn't do something a certain way. Here we go...
I find myself wanting to set the workplane very frequently by selecting a face of an object while modeling or making modifications while in a 3d view. A typical use case would be to place a dimension on a vertical surface: set the workplane to a vertical surface and then place your dimension between two perpendicular references. However Revit forces you to make another click to pick that option. For a tool that I find myself using the same option 95% of the time, this is quite annoying, especially when you need to do this multiple times in a row. I really wish you could simply invoke the set workplane tool with that as the default option.
The massing environment actually offers this exact functionality, where the set workplane tool expects the user to pick a surface by default and gives you the other options as "overrides" on the Options bar. So, why don't we get this in the project environment too??
On a related note, one thing I recently discovered when using this tool is that if you pick an object's face as your workplane and then rotate that object, Revit puts the center of rotation at the centroid of that surface. So if you're in a 3d view and want to rotate an asymmetrical object about the center of one of its faces, make sure to set the workplane to that face first and then rotate easily without having to adjust the center of rotation.
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