Travel Path Update in Revit 2020.1

Following on from my posts about Revit 2020 on Path of Travel and Follow Up :

With the release of Revit 2020.1, we have been given four minor improvements to the new (2020) ‘Path of Travel’ feature in Revit.  Welcome as they are, these improvements do not address any of the fundamental shortcomings of the tool, which seems like a missed opportunity:

  1. Start and End Points of travel paths can be dragged.
  2. Reveal Obstacles toggle.
  3. To and From Room properties have been enabled (these were previously just blank instance properties in 2020).
  4. Two new Dynamo nodes for Travel Paths (presumably new API capabilities allow this?)

Start and End Points

If you select an existing ‘Path of Travel’ element (which behaves like a polyline detail line) it now displays a blue grip-handle dot at each end.

  • Select the grip-handle and drag it to a new location – while doing so, Revit displays a moving straight line directly between the cursor and the other end of the path.

  • Once you let go the grip-handle in…

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