From the course: Cert Prep: Revit MEP Electrical Certified Professional

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- [Instructor] Well, another year, and another user interface update. This one's pretty awesome, though. In this video, I'd like to take a look at what has changed only in the user interface. Of course, throughout the rest of the course, I'll make sure you know when we hit a topic that's been enhanced in terms of functionality. Let's open Revit 2019. The first thing I wanna look at is Project Open. Browse somewhere to where you're keeping Revit models and if I select this model, notice that it gives you the year. Go to that model, gives you the year. Then when you get to an old one, you know to back off of it. I'm just gonna open any model. The first thing that catches my eye is this. Tabs. If I go to level one structure plan, level two, notice that we have tabs now. Which is pretty awesome. You can just drag one over if you want. What's really cool. If I drag this over to the end and down, I can drag this to another monitor. That's a huge enhancement. Of course, we can go full screen right with this view, which is kinda neat too. I'll be doing that a lot through this course. I'm gonna close out of here. Also with this comes an enhancement to the View tab. Notice now we have tab views and tile views. If we go to tile views it's kinda the same thing. We still have the tab and of course you can always switch them over or drag in onto another screen if you want. Again, pretty cool. You can maximize it, or you can restore down. Now if I wanna just plant it back, all I have to do is hover over the tabs and it goes back in. Next thing I wanna show you is an enhancement to the fill patterns. So I'm gonna come down here and just draw a round wall. Let's go to structure, wall. Let's click on the circle button. I'm just gonna draw a wall like this. Hit Escape a few times. Select your wall, click edit type. Now for structure, click edit. For the material, let's click into buy category. Click the browser button and down here I'm gonna make a new material. I'm gonna right click and rename it. I'll just call it funny concrete. Now in funny concrete, for my surface pattern, my foreground, I wanna make diagonal crosshatch. The background, I wanna make concrete. Hit OK. Hit apply. Hit OK. Hit OK. Hit OK one more time. Now let's go to our South elevation. I'm gonna zoom in on my funny concrete wall. Check the head out. Now that we're looking at the wall, it's always been impossible to dimension a round wall. Well, not anymore. Click your aligned dimension button. Look at what's going on here. That's a huge enhancement. Let's go to a 3D view. One thing we can do here, I'm not sure if I like or not. Scroll down to properties until we find projection mode. Instead of orthographic, switch it to perspective. Now we can be in perspective view. I'm gonna change it back cause it's bothering me. Orthographic, click apply. Now we're in. One more thing I wanna show you. Remember when we used to have to right click and rename? Well now you can just click it again and you can rename it that way. Seems like a small enhancement, but I like it a lot. So yeah, I think we'll be saying 2019 was a good year for the user interface.

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