From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
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Revit element hierarchy - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
Revit element hierarchy
- [Instructor] Let's take a high-level look at the overall organizational hierarchy in Revit. So, everything in Revit is organized into a certain hierarchy of elements and it starts at the top with categories. Categories are built into the software and includes everything you might expect, like walls, doors, windows, floors, text, dimensions, and a variety of other things as well. Categories are deliberately broad, they include overall, big picture items and those big picture items impart certain overall behaviors to all of the elements that are part of that category. So, for something like doors, for example, that's a pretty broad grouping. It will tell us in general terms what a door is and how it's supposed to behave, but if you want to get a little bit more specific, you need to move down the hierarchy. So, the difference between, say, a double door or a single door or a sliding door, there we'd be talking about the next step on the hierarchy called family. So, families are more…
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Recent Files screen and File menu3m 31s
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Using the ribbon and the QAT6m 45s
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Context ribbons4m 11s
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Using the properties palette8m 38s
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Using the project browser6m 46s
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Moving and stacking palettes3m 51s
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Using multiple monitors8m 7s
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Using keyboard shortcuts in Revit4m 57s
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Navigating views: Zoom, pan, rotate7m 42s
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Selecting objects9m 21s
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Selection toggles5m 3s
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Accessing Revit options6m 8s
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Creating a new project from a template7m 33s
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Accessing a multi-user project using workshare4m 38s
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Creating and configuring a new project6m 31s
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Adding levels9m 42s
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Adding grids6m 3s
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Refining a layout with temporary dimensions6m 55s
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Adding columns6m 15s
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Adding walls8m 36s
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Wall properties and types9m 26s
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Using snaps7m 34s
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Locating walls7m 15s
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Using the modify tools8m 19s
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Adding doors and windows8m 59s
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Adding plumbing fixtures and other components8m 29s
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Wall joins4m 14s
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Using constraints11m 11s
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Linking AutoCAD DWG files11m 2s
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Creating topography from a DWG link7m 32s
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CAD inserts7m 17s
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Import tips8m 7s
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Creating groups10m 42s
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Mirroring groups to create a layout4m 57s
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Creating Revit links5m 26s
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Rotating and aligning a Revit link8m 20s
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Establishing shared coordinates7m 46s
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Managing links5m 21s
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Understanding file formats2m 29s
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Creating floors10m 7s
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Creating footprint roofs6m 22s
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Attaching walls to roofs6m 43s
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Creating extrusion roofs6m 20s
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Using the shape editing tools to create a flat roof8m 42s
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Working with slope arrows6m 52s
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Creating ceilings11m 54s
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Adding openings8m 9s
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Using object styles5m 15s
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Working with visibility and graphic overrides10m 16s
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Using view templates8m 28s
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Hiding and isolating objects in a model7m 3s
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View extents and crop regions6m 22s
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View range7m 4s
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Displaying objects above and below in plan views8m 19s
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Using the Linework tool and Depth Cueing7m 23s
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Using cutaway views7m 6s
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Using graphical display options9m 46s
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Adding text9m 40s
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Adding dimensions8m 13s
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Adding symbols3m 55s
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Adding legend views5m 7s
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Creating a detail callout6m 24s
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Adding detail components5m 47s
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Using arrays to parametrically duplicate objects8m 19s
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Adding filled and masking regions7m 16s
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