Hi everyone.
Judging from the heat coming off the servers in the last 24 hours, a lot of you have given Revit Sundial a try in the hosted environment. If you'd like to read about what's different in Sundial, click here for What's New.
In What's New, you'll see mention of Dynamo as a feature -- sometimes documentation visits us from one possible future, and we can only marvel at the modern wonders of time travel.
More information later today!
Anthony
Loaded up rac_basic_sample_project. Went to Floor Plan - Site. Hyper-linked help annotation tags are not working.
Posted by: Brian Beck | August 07, 2014 at 11:38 AM
I LOVE the new Search feature in the Type Selector. Yes!
Posted by: Chad | August 07, 2014 at 05:30 PM
Some nice new features - here's some comments:
1 - I can't believe how fast it is drawing/regenerating my data-heavy views!(tower 3D and elevation views) Is this something in the new version or something to do with the Citrix setup? Either way - impressive!
2 - Drawing speed in shadowed views does not seem as upgraded - also, was wondering if the printing of shadowed views has been improved (can't test printing in this version)
3 - File upgrade dialog box looked just like before (no version info, cancel upgrade)
4 - The Wall Join feature of Disallow/Allow join is a little buggy. Let's me Disallow, but then when I Allow, they don't both rejoin, and then it gets finicky about letting me select that wall join again.
5 - The added search function in various dialogs helps a lot
6 - Load and close family is something I've been wanting for a long time - simple, but nice.
Posted by: Mark Schmieding | August 08, 2014 at 04:50 PM
Followed the link to What's New in Sundial, it connects to What's New in Revit 2015. Searched for the word Dynamo, no matching words found. Who's at the wheel, Bozo the Clown?
Posted by: plawton | August 11, 2014 at 03:45 PM
Could you post the API help file for Sundial?
Posted by: Harry Mattison | August 12, 2014 at 10:27 AM
Was wondering when we might be able to try out the print to pdf with hyperlinks. I believe since it is in trial mode we are unable to try that function out.
Thanks,
Posted by: Jess Mickle | August 13, 2014 at 09:04 AM
How do you sign out of 360 within Sundial?
Posted by: Bill Knittle | August 13, 2014 at 10:30 AM
@Brian Beck:
Sorry that you're having trouble accessing the help in this way.
To access help topics from rac_basic_sample_project, do the following:
1. Open a view that contains blue help dots (see the list on A001 - Title Sheet). Also open the Properties palette.
2. Click a help dot in the view and, in the Properties palette, select the Learning Link parameter and click its [...] button.
A related help topic about the element displays in a browser window.
3. (Optional) To track your progress through these help topics, after reading a topic you can click the checkbox for the help dot's Content Reviewed parameter in the Properties palette. On A001 - Title Sheet, the Reviewed column of the schedule indicates the help topics that have been read/not read.
If you continue to have problems, or have problems with a specific help link, please let me know? Thanks!
-- Patty Gale, Autodesk Revit User Assistance Team
Posted by: Patty Gale | August 14, 2014 at 02:54 PM
Trying Sundial from Australia... and I get an error saying "The Application failed to start on the server. Please check your Citrix client."
Is the Sundial trial US only? We're terribly interested in it over here.
Posted by: Adrian Esdaile | August 18, 2014 at 08:44 AM
Can I access Revit Sundial from a mac?
Posted by: Paras | August 21, 2014 at 03:54 PM
Trying sundial here in Beantown!
All of the "HELP" links in sundial keep taking me to the Revit 2015 Help Website even when i click the link from the blue dots in the plan views.
Seems to happen in Chrome and IE both, this is the link I am being directed to: "http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2015/ENU/?contextId=EXLINK_SECTION"
I was able to find this pdf for some FAQs on Sundial. "http://static.autodesk.net/dc/content/dam/autodesk/www/docs/pdf/Revit_Sundial_Release_Preview_FAQ_final_v2_8_6.pdf"
Help please oh masters of all things BIM!
Posted by: James Meinecke | August 22, 2014 at 03:00 PM
Hi James.
Do not adjust your browser. Just go to "What's New" in the help to which you're you're being linked.
Hi Adrian.
In theory you should be able to get to Sundial, there's no regional restriction, so there's some technical issue arising. I assume you've tried downloading again? In the meantime, let me ask the team what might be causing that. Sometimes we're seeing problems with the firewall settings of different firms trying to access the preview.
Hi Paras.
The servers shouldn't care whether you're on a Mac, but the little downloadable client might. Let me check into that for you.
(post edited sightly for clarity)
Anthony
Posted by: Anthony Hauck | August 23, 2014 at 07:46 AM