Silence the Warnings

If you do something Revit doesn't like it will generate a warning that appears in the bottom right of the Revit interface. Those are warnings you can choose to ignore but they are stored in the Review Warnings dialog to review later. It's a good idea to remember to resolve as many as you can.

If you also get a warning sound when these appear and you find it annoying, you can silence them if you click the sneaky little "speaker" icon that appears in the warning dialog.

My son showed me this meme as I was writing this post, sublime timing? I think so...

Show Me Wish

Revit offers us the opportunity to "Show" an element when we review warnings, use the Select by ID and fairly often when an error message is generated and we expand the warning.

Choosing Show will often generate a warning that there is no good view to show it in and ask us if we really want to let Revit hunt for a view.

I'd like to be able to specify which kind of views to hunt through before it does its magic. For example I know I want to find a ceiling so don't bother showing me 3D, elevation or section views if I'm really hoping to see just ceiling plan views. Perhaps a new Zoom option: Zoom to Selected that goes to the current element in the view, like Revit will do in a 3D view using the view cube.

Let me help Revit focus on what I'm interested in or think I need. I occasionally have a clue...

These are not the Warnings You are Looking For

Funny message offered in the Review Warnings dialog.

I had previously selected all the room tags in the model (select all instances in entire project) and then chose the option to Move to Room to fix Revit's complaint regarding some of them. The message displayed changed to the above. Nice that it is confirming there are now no more warnings but I find it amusing that it says "Warning...there aren't any warnings, Warning". Proceed with caution.