Revit 01

It has been almost a month since I uploaded something on this blog, This post will basically give you a short review and refresher on your revit commands and menu.

To get us started, this is the all too familiar work space of revit, each toolbar has different color highlights, details below.

1. Gray – APPLICATION MENU, typical menu where you can save, load, etc.

2. Blue – QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR, sits above the ribbon, can be customized.

3. Red- RIBBON, Icons that represent each command called PANEL, usually has dropdown menus.

4. Green – PROPERTIES PALLETE, list of properties and options of a specific model. Open for editing.

5. Yellow – PROJECT BROWSER, This is like the table of contents of your project, this is where you can select and edit views.

6. Purple – MENU BAR, list of panels where you can hide objects, and change visual details.

7. Orange – NAVIGATION BAR, practically useless unless your mouse does not have a mouse scroll.

After getting re acquainted with revit, the list of shortcuts will help you do things with ease and makes you look PRO, But using the icon selection is not a bad thing to do.

List of revit notes and shortcuts:

Create shortcuts:

UN – units – first thing to do, used to set project units.

WA – create wall – can be accessed at ribbon, wall panel.

DR – create door – can be accessed at ribbon, door panel.

WN – create window - can be accessed at ribbon, window panel.

Drafting, annotations and text shortcuts:

DI  dimension

EL  spot elevation

GR  grid

LL  level

TX  text

TG  tag

RP  ref plane

RT  room tag

DL  detail lines

Edit menu shortcuts:

MD  modify

MV  move

CO  copy (Cntrl-C)

RO  rotate

AR  array

MM  mirror

PR  properties

DE  delete

GP  group

LO  lock objects

SA Select all instances

RE Resize

PP Pin Position UP=unpin

Navigation shortcuts:

SHIFT + MOUSE LEFT CLICK – navigate on model.

ZR  zoom in region

ZO  zoom out (2x)

ZF  zoom to fit

ZE  zoom to fit

ZA  zoom all to fit

ZS  sheet size

ZP  previous scroll/zoom

F8  dynamic view dbox

F5  refresh

DOUBLE ESC – reset command

View menu shortcuts:

VP View Properties

VG Visibility graphics

VH category invisible

Vi Other categories invisible

HH Hide object

HI isolate object

HC hide category

IC isolate category

HR reset temp hide/isolate

source:

Lynda.com/ revit architecture

http://davidddriver.com/Product/Freebies/Revit/Revit%20keyboard%20ShortcutsVert.pdf