Your User Profile

Create a user profile that allows Revit to provide recommendations for a personalized experience for the way you work.

What is a User Profile?

The Ask Profile dialog displays the first time you open Revit after it has been installed. It presents questions about the discipline and job role for which you use Revit. The answers you provide to these questions are used to create a customized Revit user interface. You will not need to sign in to your Autodesk account to use this feature.

Types of Information We Include

When you create a user profile, we ask questions about the disciplines for which you use Revit, and about your job role. This helps us understand how to provide you with recommendations for displaying only the most useful tabs and tools in the ribbon.

Discipline and Job Role

In creating your profile, the Ask Profile dialog asks you to select disciplines that describe what you need to do in Revit.

The Ask Profile dialog also asks you to select the job role that best describes your job role from a drop-down list.

Experience

When you select the disciplines you use in Revit, ribbon tabs and tools related to other disciplines you don't use are hidden. The Infrastructure category filter selection is cleared by default. It will be enabled only when it is selected in the disciplines list in the Ask Profile dialog.

Why Create a User Profile?

When you create a user profile, Revit will provide recommendations to hide tabs and tools you don't use often or at all, and display only the tabs and tools you need. This will provide a simplified user interface that is easier to learn and customized to the way you work.

User Profile Results

Based on your responses in the Ask profile dialog, tabs and tools in the ribbon are hidden. A list of recommended UI changes will be displayed in the dialog for your review before you are asked to accept or decline them.

The customized interface will be saved so that the next time you open Revit, the changes remain. There may also be differences in your ribbon layout if you have previously made changes using FileOptionsUser InterfaceConfigureTools and analyses. These profile settings are saved only on the PC you are currently using. If you work on a different PC, you will need to recreate the user profile.

Note: Customized workspace stores settings in a roaming profile at the path C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Profile.

Note: The Infrastructure category discipline filter selection is cleared by default. It remains cleared for all profiles unless a user selects the Infrastructure discipline during profile creation. You can also select the Infrastructure discipline filter in other dialogs that display the Infrastructure filter.

How Do I Undo the User Profile Changes?

If you have just created a user profile and selected "I'll give it a try!", but the changes are not what you expected, you can select Restore in the How do you like your new ribbon layout? dialog. This will return the ribbon to the classic ribbon layout.

If you created a user profile and selected "I'll give it a try!", but later you decide the new layout is not quite right, you can make changes. Navigate to FileOptionsUser InterfaceConfigureTools and Analyses and select or deselect the tabs and tools you want to display or hide.

How Does Autodesk Use the User Profile Information?

Autodesk uses your profile information so that we can continuously improve Revit for our customers.