Every year at Autodesk University Autodesk Users Group International “AUGI” present their members nominated and voted product wish lists to Autodesk at their annual meeting which precedes the infamous beer bust. This year was the most products covered in wish lists with: AutoCAD AutoCAD Architecture AutoCAD Civil 3D Inventor Navisworks Revit Architecture Revit MEP Revit Structure I want to sincerely thank every AUGI member that participated in the process. Get ready for one really long blog post. Stats provided to me by AUGI: 4,700 Wishes +70,000 Rankings +42,000 Votes <drumroll> Here are the top wishes for 2012! The AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture wish lists were presented to Amit Patel Sr. Director Product Management AutoCAD Top Ten Wish List #10  Jimmy Bergmark Add a command or drawing variable to control the wipeout frame #9  Tim Turner Edit Page Setups For Multiple Layouts using CTRL+Select and/or SHIFT+ to Select the appropriate layouts #8  Brad Crouse  Ability to abort a hung up function in AutoCAD without shutting down the program #7  Michael Shick  The text in a dimension should have same capability as mtext #6  Jim Gerth  XREF attachment to include toggles to ignore display property overrides from displaying in attached/overlain reference files #5  Jake Delgado  AutoCAD needs linetypes that can use entities other than shapes to show geometry in linetypes #4  Yair Yes  Have the possibility to lock the drawing order of specific objects #3  Ray Mendoza  The ability to add more than one visibility parameter to a dynamic block #2  Enzo Di Paolo  Have a combo list of value making a block with attributes Number #1 AutoCAD Wish Carey Edwards  Should be able to go to Help to find useful info AutoCAD Architecture Top Ten Wish List #10  Melinda Heavrin  Having an option for the space to stretch no matter which point is selected #9  Melinda Heavrin  Have a flag indicate that the wall you are exploring under Style Manager/Display Properties has an object override #8  Fabrice Maicel  Have the ability to split selected cells in a curtain wall #7  Joe Perkins  Synchronized Tool Sets so that the same tools are available across the entire Autodesk product line #6  A.K.  Detail Component Manager acting like Properties Window or XREF Window #5  Floyd Putnam  Have the ability to change the Line Scale of all objects in the drawing at the same time #4  Jared Kelm  Automatically use previous file folder location when exporting drawings to PDF #3  Matthew Dougherty  Have the ability to independently control the array spacing as well as the number of objects for each instance of a dynamic block #2  Jared Kelm  Allow door insertion to be at either a set increment from edge of wall or at center of wall by default Number #1 AutoCAD Architecture Wish Kenneth Siegel  Have the ability for a polygon to have a center pick point at the time it is made AutoCAD Civil 3D Top Ten Wish List The AutoCAD Civil 3D wish list was presented to James Paquette Software Development Manager #10  Sonia Borba  Layout profiles and static profiles should honor linetype generation #9  Guido Bonin  Join and/or divide two concurrent alignments and profiles #8  Mike Pryor  Automatically show intersecting alignments on the profile #7  Kevin Mills  Labels to behave the same as AutoCAD annotative text, so that their positions can be adjusted relative to individual viewports #6  Sebastien Leonard  Upgrade OSNAP Functionality to work as intended for all Civil 3D objects #5  Chris Brenton  Have Civil 3D pipes lock manhole inverts and pipe slopes at points of interest #4  Cyndy Davenport  eTransmit for Civil 3D projects with options to promote data references and export Civil 3D objects to AutoCAD entities with setting options #3  Steve Boon  Feature Lines should display linetypes correctly when PLINEGEN variable is set to 1 #2  Doug Roberts  Have Civil 3D able to ping or utilize all 4 quadrants of the Intel Quad Core Chip Number #1 AutoCAD Civil 3D Wish James Lord  When using “Stepped Offset” to create a feature line, that reference should be dynamic Inventor Top Ten Wish List The Inventor wish list was presented to Prabakar Murugappan Sr. Product Line Manager #10  Rudy Pont  Have program accurately track view letters, so even if a view is deleted all the other views update with consecutive lettering #9  Pasi Annila  Add button for creating origin planes flash constraint between 2 or more parts (or assemblies) at once #8  Duncan Anderson  Need for the ability to record VBA macros just like MS Word and Solidworks #7  Pasi Annila  Have the option to create a part that has the elasticity to conform to required shapes #6  Josh Hunt  Add a Lock Rotation option to the Insert Constraint #5  Ol Sh  Expand the current table options to be more like an Excel table with the same functionality #4  David Gaskill  Ability to terminate the command without the software crashing #3  David Salyer  Ability to calculate the volume of a shelled or hollowed out part and find the specific gravity if it was filled with a virtual material #2  Rick Hageman  Have the ability to constrain a hole to a slotted part and quickly center the two together Number #1 Inventor Wish Jim Durkin  Have Inventor be able to utilize dual core / quad core processors and therefore use more of the available RAM Navisworks Manage Top Ten Wish List The Navisworks Manage wish list was presented to Richard Parker Sr. Product Manager #10  David Mettler  Add 64-bit multi-processing multi-core rendering to the Presenter rendering engine #9  Daron Denton  Ability to create clash tests confined to a 3 dimensional zone within the building based on a selected mass object of any shape #8  David Sutcliff  Ability of reading of data past line 1757003 in a PDMS attribute file be included in the model #7  Colin Magner  Enable multi-user workflows to allow for effective review of multidiscipline models of whole buildings #6  Michael Smith Ability to define customized shortcut keys #5  Zoran Markovski  A permanent onscreen displayed watermark #4  Joe Perkins  Improve the usability of the dialog box when building a “Find Item search” #3  Michael Smith  Ability to set a proximity and have all clashes within the zone be grouped together #2  Michael Smith  During coordination, have the ability to update just the model instead of having to wait for Navisworks to re-compile the entire project Number #1 Navisworks Manage Wish Jason Matthews  The organization of groupings of clashes is lacking. It would be extremely helpful to be able to place groups within groups to further breakdown the hierarchy of clashes   Revit Products wish lists presented to Kyle Bernhardt Building Design Suites Product Line Manager Revit Architecture Top Ten Wish List #10  David Keller  Select multiple annotation items and have the ability to send the entire set backwards or forwards in the view #9  Rick Bulic  Provide an Object Snap option for the midpoint between two selected points #8  Greg Hale  Develop an easy graphic user interface that creates a custom hatch .pat for use in Revit #7  Robert Manna  A railing tool that better deals with real-life conditions of required railing extensions and returns #6  Rick Bulic  Sloping walls, whether straight or curved, should be easier to model and not require editing of masses to achieve these forms #5  Hans Andrasko  Have call out boundaries and other view crop regions could also be polygons other than just rectangles #4  Cliff Collins  Have a tool to specify angle of wall from non-vertical #3  Thomas Chuffart  Ability to to control the way schedules are displayed on the sheets #2  Laura Sharpe Have the ability to allow Room schedules to take advantage of the data base of information available Number #1 Revit Architecture Wish Brett Thompson  Allow Revit to build roads, curbs, sidewalks, ridges and swales that all modify the toposurface Revit MEP Top Ten Wish List #10  Aaron Bulla  Add an option for a footer in all schedules #9  Kevin McGlothlin  Have piping that turns up or down to show properly regardless of its location within the view range #8  Matt Boynton  Ability to turn on/off a Piping/Ducting system #7  Colin Magner  Ability to have Spaces cope with vertically irregular spaces #6  Michael Voss  Add a “move up/move down” option so you can control the parameter order as they appear in the category #5  Daniel Rodriguez  Have the ability to to calculate length through a run of pipes, ducts, conduit and cable tray #4  Daniel Rodriguez  Ability to create a single-line diagram of the electrical system based on the connection of circuits #3  Le Hien Huynh  Ability to duplicate sheets so views/schedules show up in same location creates a duplicate of the views/schedules via duplicating the sheet #2  Nick Crane  Connectors across a linked model Number #1 Revit MEP Wish Colin Magner  The triangle warning symbols added to 2012 helped to identify problems with systems but Revit still complains that systems are not well connected but not tell us why? Revit Structure Top Ten Wish List #10  David Keller  Define wall layers as architectural or structural to control visibility in views #9  Rick Blankenship  Have Pier and Grade Beams instead of using round columns and concrete beams #8  Steve Saltsman  Have the ability to tag part of an elevation. Give us access to all the elevation possibilities #7  Colin Magner  Ability to have Spaces cope with vertically irregular spaces #6  Allen Wear  Make joist extended ends visible on coarse view #5  Melissa Breiter  Have the option to maintain the phasing properties of objects and the phasing relationships between objects when binding a linked architecture model or using copy/monitor #4  Arnout van Ijsseldijk  Ability to align tags of all categories of objects—not just walls. Option rotate with object or just align to (detail) line #3  Shaun Peppers  Add a grade beam category separate from regular beams #2  Rebecca Frangipane  Ability to draw a revision cloud along a polyline instead of clicking multiple times Number #1 Revit Structure Wish Jeffery Bonnet  Enhanced Text Formatting Capabilities Get involved with AUGI and the wish list as membership is free and there are hundreds of thousands of members. Cheers, ShaanGo to the original post...