From the course: Learning Revit 2020
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Opening a project
- [Instructor] When you first launch Revit, you'll be greeted with the home screen. Kind of welcomes you to the product and gives you some options to open and create new files. Now I'm going to focus on opening a file here, and let's look at the left-hand side of the home screen here. You'll see that tall gray bar there, and it says models and families. So that shows us two different kinds of Revit files are available to us. Now for this course, we're going to focus on models, and in a lot of your work, you're going to spend most of your time in models. These are your project files that contain most of your building geometry and data. A family file is more like a individual component or an item that you would place in a model. So maybe it's a piece of equipment or furniture or a door or window. So it's actually possible to open those items directly and do work on them. Now as I say, we're not going to be doing that here, but that's why there's two different entries in that location…
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