- If you spend a lot of time working in Revit, then you will no doubt discover that screen real estate often becomes a premium. So there's a few different ways that you can manage your interface to adjust it to your liking. And one of the things that we can do is adjust the way the pallets are organized on the screen. So this would include the Properties Pallet and the Project Browser that we talked about in the last two movies, but it would also include other pallets that you can display as well. So if we look over here at the left-hand side of the screen, I have my Properties Pallet above my Project Browser in the default configuration.
This is how it would install out of the box. But with either of these, you can actually come over here to the title bar, click and hold down your mouse, and tear it away from the docked location on the screen. Now you'll see this big gray border, and when I let go, you'll see that now the Project Browser is a floating pallet, and you can see that I can easily move that around on screen. Now the only disadvantage of that is it actually covers up the drawing window underneath, so the best use of carrying it off in this fashion would be if you actually have two monitors connected to your screen.
So now days, a lot of folks have double monitors, and so if you do have that, you can actually tear off both of these pallets and put them on the second screen and then your view window can be a nice full screen view. So that's definitely something that you can do. Now of course, you'll also notice that the Properties pallet is still docked on the left and so it now fills up the entire vertical part of the space. Now you can dock these pallets to any of the four sides of the screen. And so if I grab this floating pallet, and I start to move it to the edge here, notice that it wants to dock to the upper portion of the screen.
Or if I drag it to this edge down here, it will want to dock to the lower portion of the screen. Now I wouldn't necessarily recommend that with the Project Browser because as you can see, it significantly reduced the size of the view window, and unless you have really long view names, all of this space over here to the right is just empty white space. So I would think that the best place for your Project Browser and your Properties Pallet would be on the vertical sides of the screen or on the seperate monitor.
Now some folks prefer to organize their Revit screen this way, where they have a Properties Pallet on one side and a Project Browser on the other, and they benefit from both of them being the full height of the screen. So that's another configuration that's very popular. Here's another option. I'm gonna pull this back off again. And this one is a little bit trickier to get used to, so you're gonna want to play very close attention to the onscreen cues when you do this next thing. So I've got my browser floating, and I'm gonna start to drag it. Notice that I get this big gray box that sort of simulates the shape of the pallet.
If I move it over here towards where the Properties is, pay attention to the shape of the gray box and notice that it's now a much longer and thinner rectangle. If I were to let go, it will actually dock on there as a very narrow window, and it puts itself next to the Properties Pallet. Now you can always put your mouse here and adjust the width of it. So again, if you want, you can put them side by side like that. Let's peel it off again and look at another alternative.
If I take this, and I start to drag it, the first thing we start to see is what I just showed you, that it's gonna try and dock on like this. Here's the trick. Don't pay attention to the gray box so much. The gray box is the feedback for the end result that you're gonna get. You wanna pay attention to where your mouse pointer is. If I look where my mouse pointer is, notice that as I move it up just underneath the title bar of Properties, it's actually gonna dock it on top of the Properties pallet.
Let me tear it off again. Let me shrink this down a little bit narrower here. Now suppose I take this and drag it down here. Okay? Now it would give me below the Properties pallet. And then finally, if I put it right on top of the tool bar of the Properties pallet. You can see where my mouse is. It's on that blue bar. You can kinda see at the very bottom, a little gray line that kind of has a step in it.
And what that's gonna do is it's actually gonna put the two pallets on top of each other and tab them. So when I let go, notice that I get a tab here for Properties and another tab here for Project Browser, and if I click, it switches between the two. So if I don't have two monitors, but you don't like having the pallets stacked on top of each other and really short, you can make them full screen height like this and tab them. The only downside is that you have to remember to click the tab to switch between the two. So it really is just a matter of preference which one of these you choose.
But there's a lot of different options that are available to you. I'm gonna tear this off one more time, and I just want to reiterate it's the mouse pointer that you want to follow. So again if I do this right below the title bar, it stacks. Right on the title bar, it gives me a tab. So that's how you know which one you're gonna get. I'm actually gonna put it back down here, right underneath my Properties pallet where it started off. And for the remainder of the course, I'm gonna leave it in its default position, but you are welcome to use any of those methods that I just showed you and move the two pallets to any configuration that suits your own personal preference.
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5/28/2015Paul also shows advanced techniques for modeling stairs, complex walls, and partially obscured building elements, as well as adding rooms and solid geometry. Finally, discover how to annotate your drawing so all the components are perfectly understood, and learn how to output sheets to DWF, PDF, or AutoCAD.
- Understanding BIM and the Revit element hierarchy
- Navigating views
- Creating a new project from a template
- Adding walls, doors, and windows
- Adding plumbing fixtures and other components
- Linking AutoCAD DWG files
- Rotating and aligning Revit links
- Working with footprint and extrusion roofs
- Adding openings
- Adding railings and extensions to stairs
- Creating stacked and curtain walls
- Hiding and isolating objects
- Adding rooms
- Creating schedule views and tags
- Adding text and dimensions
- Creating new families
- Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints
- Plotting and creating a PDF
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome56s
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1. Core Concepts
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2. Getting Comfortable with the Revit Environment
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Using the Ribbon and the QAT6m 27s
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Using the Properties palette7m 52s
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Selecting objects9m 20s
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Accessing Revit options7m 44s
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3. Starting a Project
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Adding levels10m 39s
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Adding grids7m 53s
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Adding columns8m 22s
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4. Modeling Basics
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Adding walls8m 53s
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Wall properties and types8m 43s
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Using snaps5m 50s
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Locating walls7m 9s
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Using the Modify tools9m 2s
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Adding doors and windows7m 41s
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Using Autodesk Seek4m 21s
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Wall joins3m 17s
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Using constraints9m 46s
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5. Links, Imports, and Groups
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Linking AutoCAD DWG files9m 28s
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Understanding CAD inserts6m 56s
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Import tips7m 29s
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Creating groups7m 54s
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Creating Revit links6m 36s
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Managing links5m 9s
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6. Sketch-Based Modeling Components
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Creating floors9m 9s
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Creating footprint roofs8m 1s
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Working with ceilings10m 11s
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Creating extrusion roofs4m 51s
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Attaching walls to roofs4m 51s
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Working with slope arrows5m 58s
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Adding openings7m 14s
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7. Stairs
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Working with stairs9m 26s
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Adding railings to stairs3m 41s
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8. Complex Walls
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Understanding stacked walls6m 53s
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Adding curtain walls8m 55s
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Model lines5m 37s
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9. Visibility and Graphic Controls
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Using object styles6m 17s
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Using view templates9m 24s
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Understanding view range8m 38s
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Using the Linework tool6m 29s
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Using cutaway views6m 41s
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10. Rooms
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Adding rooms10m
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11. Schedules and Tags
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Understanding tags10m 26s
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Adding schedule views8m 6s
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Modifying schedule views8m 24s
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Creating a key schedule8m 27s
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Using images in schedules3m 58s
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12. Annotation and Details
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Adding text8m 2s
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Adding dimensions11m 10s
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Adding symbols3m 56s
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Adding legend views4m 39s
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Creating a detail callout7m 58s
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Adding detail components7m 49s
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13. The Basics of Families
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Understanding families2m 19s
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Adding solid geometry8m 40s
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Adding blends5m 59s
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Completing the family8m 19s
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14. Sheets, Plotting, and Publishing
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Adding sheets10m 14s
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Exporting to AutoCAD7m 57s
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Plotting and creating a PDF9m 48s
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Conclusion
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Next steps39s
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