Parametric when you don’t know it

There are times when you don’t want floors in plan to be parametric to the surrounding walls. You don’t always want a floor to move it you move a wall.

Try this:

Create a room space with 3 enclosing walls (no wall on the forth side).
Create a floor in the room using the “by line” method with the “pencil tool” or “pick line tool”.
Now grab the north wall and move it. Notice how the entire floor follows the wall move.
Try pinning the floor and move the same wall. The floor will still move.

It didn’t expect this kind of behaviour. However if the floor edge is not on the wall centre line or wall edge, you won’t get this behaviour.

Entering numeric data into the options bar.

I wonder how many other Revit users share this same dislike with me. The issue occurs when entering data into the numeric data entry part of the options bar, such as the offset or radius function. You can try it yourself.

In plan draw a wall.
Use the offset function and start to enter a number in the numeric data entry location.

Now move your mouse so the mouse courser enters into the drawing area.

Notice how the data entry flashing text courser in the numeric data entry area has moved to the start of the number.

This means that users often enter the wrong numeric data by accident. I personally believe a better functionality would be moving your mouse does not affect the data entry flashing courser.

Anyway: now you are aware of this issue, you know to not touch your mouse when entering data into the options bar.