From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Select elements by ID

Select elements by ID

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Select elements by ID

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- [Instructor] This week I want to talk about Revit Element IDs. Now Revit Element IDs are six-digit numbers that uniquely identify each element within your model. Now these are assigned automatically by Revit, and they're unique for every element. Now, to demonstrate I'm in the advanced sample project, that comes with the software. I got there by going to the File menu, Open, and Sample Files, and then I selected Rac Advanced Sample Project. So if you want to follow along with me, I welcome you to open that same project. If you don't have access to that project file, it does come with the software, but if for some reason you don't have access to it, you can open any Revit project and follow along with me. Okay, so, let's start off with how do we identify an element ID? So, I'm going to select this wall that's facing us right here in the view. And your first instinct might be to look at the Properties palette. So, if…

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