Revit Classic UI for 2010!

Legendary Revit Guru Phil Read has come up with some solution to load the classic UI in Revit 2010, replacing the Ribbon UI (http://architechure.blogspot.com/2009/06/nein-nein-nein-nein-nein-nein-nein.html). He says the code for classic UI is still there in Revit 2010 and the latest massing tools are also working fine in the classic UI of Revit 2010. Phil... Tell us how!!!

Hey Autodesk...

The Ribbon UI is really irritating and time consuming with more clicks. We, the end users who use Revit (not our bosses who like the great(!) new look of the software) know that you have done a lot of coding work to introduce the Ribbon. But still, most of us don’t like it and we are more comfortable with the Classic UI. We don’t ask you to change it back to the classic UI, but let them co-exist. If you say that the co-existence of both the UI will cause more errors, I have an idea for you. At the time of installation of the software, give us an option to decide which UI to use. Or, while starting the software every time, give us an option to decide which UI to use.

Are you hearing???

Tip for Toposurface creation in slower computers:

While creating huge topographic surfaces by creating or editing the topo points, the memory used by Revit increases rapidly. The contour lines are generated while editing the points, which require more RAM. While editing more and more points, the memory used by Revit increases and at one point, it reaches the maximum limit. At that point, you face the following error “Not enough memory to save your project”. There is a simple workaround to avoid this error. While creating the topo points, you need to give “finish surface” and “save” after every 50-60 points for a survey drawing with approximately 2000-3000 points. You will know, by experience, the time at which Revit has become slow while working with topo points. At that point of time, give “finish surface” and save it to avoid losing your work.

Note: The problem working with Toposurface is you will never get an auto save reminder until you finish editing the toposurface.

If you have 3 or 4 GB of RAM in a 32 bit Operating system, enable the 3GB switch so that Revit uses your RAM to the maximum. To enable it, go through the following link.

(http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=8018966&linkID=9243099)

Detailed description of how to enable the 3GB switch is given in the above link. This is the gist of that link.

Enabling the 3GB Switch

1. Right-click My Computer. Click Properties.
2. In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
3. On the Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings.
4. In the Startup and Recovery dialog box, under System startup, click Edit. The Windows boot.ini file will be opened in Notepad.
5. Save a renamed copy of your boot.ini file somewhere on your computer in case you need to revert back to your original version of the file. Note: Boot.ini files may be different from computer to computer.
6. Highlight the following line in the boot.ini file:
   
   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

7. Copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) the line just below the original. Note: Your exact text string may be different from the text string in this document. So be sure to copy the text string from your boot.ini file, not the text string shown here.
8. Modify the copied line to include “ /3GB”, as shown in the example below. Note: Do not overwrite any existing lines.
   
   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /3GB /fastdetect

9. Save the boot.ini file and close Notepad.
10. Click OK to close each dialog box.
11. Reboot your computer.
12. During startup, select the 3GB option. If you do not select the 3GB option, the system will default to the 2GB total memory setting.

If there are problems at startup, you may need to update some of your drivers.