Explore the capabilities of Revit as we navigate through an example project, create new views, and take advantage of the software's features. Discover how to manage your projects effectively with shortcuts, understand the importance of using the latest Revit version, and master the basic tools such as selecting objects, zooming, and panning.
Key Insights:
- The Revit software allows the creation of shortcuts to folders, facilitating quick and easy access to different projects. This is particularly useful when transitioning between different levels of BIM (Building Information Modeling).
- Revit is not backwards compatible. Once a project is saved in the current version, it cannot be accessed in previous versions. This highlights the importance of using the most current version of the software to ensure accessibility to older models.
- Mastering the basic tools in Revit, such as selecting objects, zooming, and panning with the mouse, is crucial to efficiently navigate through the software. These tools can fill in knowledge gaps and ensure all users are on the same page.
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In this video, we're going to go over an Example Project and we're going to take a look at some of the few things that we can do within Revit. I like to call this the Revit driving lessons because we're going to learn how to navigate through a project and create some new views and just check out some of the capabilities that we have at our disposal. So to start off, we're going to go ahead and open up our Example Project.
So I'm going to go to the open button in the Quick Launch Bar. And I've opened it right to my BIM 101 folder. And what we could do here is we can actually create a shortcut for this so that we can always jump to this folder right away.
And so as you progress through from BIM 101 to BIM 201, et cetera, you can go ahead and you can actually add a shortcut within here so that you can jump to these folders pretty quickly. When you go to Tools, you can say add current folder to places, and then now I have a BIM 101 folder so I can always jump to it right away. So I'm going to open this example BIM and this is actually a finished version of our second project that we'll do in the class with a few tweaks so I know that it's different from the one that you guys will be creating.
We'll click open. And this project was created initially in Revit 2020 and you can see as it uploads, it's going to upload or upgrade to Revit 2021. And the reason it's going through this upgrade process is because Revit is one of a few software that is not backwards compatible.
So once you open a project and save it in the current version, it's no longer accessible in previous versions. If you were for some reason working on Revit 2018, you would actually not be able to open the Revit 2020 project. So you want to make sure that you're using the most current version of the software so that you can always access those older models.
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When opening the project, it just jumps to a lot of times it'll be the last view that was open when it was closed or you can actually set a Starting View from your Manage tab and then you can set a Starting View to be any of the views that you have in the project. But in our case, we'll just keep it as is. So the first thing that we're going to cover here, and it's going to seem a little basic sometimes, but I find a lot of times people end up filling in the gaps of their information with these basic tools and it helps out to level the playing field so that everybody's on the same page.
And so most people have a Three-Button Mouse and that means it has a Left Click, a Right Click, and a wheel. And so when I say click a lot of times, I'm referring to Left Click. So that's how you will select objects or clicking into the white space will deselect them or hitting escape does the same thing.
And if you were to Right Click on an object, you can see you get a different Dialog box with multiple options that you can go through. The wheel, which is typically the button in the middle, will allow you to zoom and pan. And so if I were to roll the wheel back towards me, it's going to zoom out.
And if I roll it forward towards the screen, it'll zoom in. What's cool about this is if I take the mouse and then use the wheel at the same time, it'll actually zoom in to the location where I have it located. And if I wanted to pan, like if I wanted to move the screen up, I can press down on the wheel and then I'll just drag the mouse to move it into different directions.
Double clicking on the wheel is going to give you the option to Zoom Extents. And so you can see here if I'm zoomed way in and I double click, it's going to pop out to the extents of the view and I'll be able to see the whole thing.
