10 Tools Every Revit Beginner Should Learn - Revit Beginner Tutorial

what's going on guys balkan arctic here and in today's tutorial i'm going to be sharing with you these 10 amazing tools that every Revit beginner should know and learn how to use now when it comes to learning Revit as a beginner I I basically knew just a few things I got started and then as I started to learn more complex and complex things there is every now and then that I would learn about a tool or a feature of Revit that would just make me stop and I would be like come on if I just knew about this like 10 months ago it would've made my life so much easier and so many less headaches when it comes to working and rabbit so I decided to compile a list of 10 tools that are really good time savers or they make a task less of a headache or something like that so I decided to make this list of 10 tools that every Revit beginner should learn how to use ok before we get into that a list or a tutorial or presentation I would just like to ask if you like this video because it helps me out 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actually a setting for this which you can turn off if you want and that's located over here on the modify tool below we have the select option and you can actually open up the drop menu and then here we have some options to check on now one of those options and the last one is drag elements on the selection so what this allows you to do is when select elements you can drag them now if you turn that off so if you're just on track that if I select this and then try to move it as you can see nothing happens it starts making a drag selection so that that option is turned off now I really find this option quite useful especially when you're moving elements around it's really useful to be able to move it organically without having to select it and then move it just do too you can have those to do features it come in at once but it can come it come in annoying when it comes to moving important elements of the project now one of those elements are the grids so grids should rarely be moved around and if you move a grids out of place they can drag out some elements you get these warnings and it's a terrible mess so in order to avoid that we have our tool that comes in handy so when you select an element you can go here to the modify tab and then on the modify panel we have the pen in place option now you can use the P and shortcut and once you click that as you can see now element has been in place and if I try to move it it doesn't work so we have secured this element in place now of course at any point you can unpin it either by clicking here on this pen to unpin it or you can go again to the modify panel and then here we have the unbent option also you have the UPS shortcut as well okay moving on to tip number two and that has to do with projects such as this where we have a lot of large elements and then a lot of small elements if i zoom in over here you're going to notice that some of these lines are quite thick and when we take a look at a complex section like this and maybe want to do some detail work it can be kind of kind of hard to differentiate between elements here because of all of the thicker lines now luckily a Revit has a tool that allows you to create thin lines immediately on the spot so that's over here on the quick access toolbar we have the tan lines tool and as you can see the shortcut is DL now once I click this as you can see all of the lines turn 10 and now you can see everything a lot clearer and you can understand how the whole sketch is constructed and all of the little lines that exist over there now keep in mind that once you turn on the ten lines when you print it's not going to give you a ten lines it's still going to print like this so the ten lines option is or the ten lines tool or toggle is something to turn on and off while you're working on a project that just because if you want to can find you in some of the elements but it's not something that you use to set your project up when it's time to print it out so when it's time to print make sure it's turned off so you can get a realistic appearance of what your what your floor plan or any view is going to look like now let's talk about the tool number three and that's the temporary dimension and let's see how can we set it up so whenever you're working in Revit if you select one of the elements you will get these temporary dimensions so you can see these blue dimensions now the problem with these is they can can be set up the wrong way out of the box so when you install Revit just out of the box they're going to be set up like this so as you can see this temporary dimension is measuring from the center line of the wall so from the center of this wall to the center of this wall now that's usually not a dimension that you want to see usually a more important dimension is from the interior side of the wall to the other interior side of the wall and that's what's actually going to be informing on your design process so in order to change these a temporary dimensions you can do it manually by selecting this witness line just by hitting this button here selecting it and then you can move it to the center line or if you use the tab key you can toggle selection to either this face of the wall or maybe the outside face of the wall or pretty much anywhere else on the project but if you want to maybe automate this a little bit better you have a second option and that's to go here to the manage tab go to additional settings and then here on the bottom we have the temporary dimensions and this allows you to set those temporary dimensions up so here we have the temporary dimensions measure from and here four walls do we want to measure from center lines from center of core or from faces or faces of core so in most cases you want to measure from the outside face to the outside face so you would select this option over here also you can measure the center line for doors and windows or you can measure the whole openings and I prefer that so I tend to keep my settings set to faces and then here openings and once you click OK now if I select this wall as you can see it's measuring from the face to the face and the same thing here from this outside face to this inside face over here which is exactly what you want to have the next tool that I'm showing you is my favorite duel because it's so satisfying to use and that's going to be the align tool so if I switch here to the modify tab or if you select any of the elements you will get the modify tab and there we have the modify panel now on the modify panel we have the align tool and as you can see the shortcut is a al so you can use that as well so once you select this align tool what that allows you to do is to well align elements together so first you select the elements to which you want to align so the main element in this case let's select this wall over here the exterior face and then you select the element that you want to align it with or that you want to align up to that point and in this case let's select this face over here and as you can see it immediately jumps up and it aligns perfectly with that wall and also a great feature about this tool is the fact that you get this little lock icon and if you lock that in place it creates a constraint now why this constraint is good is if I just hit the Escape key a couple of times if you just move one of these walls so let's move this one the other will follow because as you can see it's locked in place and it's constrained and whenever you move one wall the other wall will follow so it's really cool in order to kind of lock things together so that the elements that shouldn't be that should be aligned will stay aligned at all times now I'm going to be showing you the joint geometry tool now here we have some walls created and then I have a floor that's just resting on those walls now if I decide to create a section through these walls let's go here to the section tool and let's create a section like this now to open up a section you just deselect it first and then you just click twice or just double click on this section head so if I just double click it opens up that section now here down I'm going to set it the detail level from coarse to fine and as you can see here we have those floors and those walls and the problem is here this line work so it appears that these two elements are kind of going through each other and it usually doesn't look like that in real life and you don't want to have a graphical representation like this so what can we do to fix this problem is to use the joint geometry tool what the joint geometry tool allows you to do is to merge these elements together not only graphically but also you don't want to rabbet it to be calculating this part of the wall because that's not going to be existing so you don't have any concrete here for example because this is a floor over here so you want to make sure that the calculations at the end are going to be correct and also you want the graphical appearance to be a bit better so what you need to do is you need to go here to the modify tab and then here we have the geometry panel and here we have the joint geometry tool and now if I click that I just need to click one element I click the second element and as you can see they merge together now we can do the same thing here same thing here and the same thing on the other side and as you can see now this looks a lot better the next tool that I'm going to be showing you is the tool that allows you to hide elements now when you're working in Revit you can select any element and here we have this temporary hide isolate and you can just hide that element now the problem with this is you get this blue outline which is kind of annoying and if you restart this project you maybe shut your computer down and then you start it up and a couple of days to continue working and this will not be hidden so it will kind of reset automatically so a more permanent way of hiding elements would be to select the element and then here you have the option to go to the View panel and then we have this little light bulb and it says hide in view now when you open up the dropping it has the option to hide either the element or the category now let's just hide this element and as you can see e:h is the shortcut and once you click that that element will be hidden now if at any point you want to see where are all of the hidden elements you have that same light bulb here on the bottom so once you click that that light bulb it goes in to reveal hidden elements mode and you can select any element and then you can just unhide it in view by going here to this unhide option or type in EU so I'm just going to unhide that and then I'm just going to turn off this reveal hidden elements view the next tool that I'm going can prove really useful because it allows you to gonna use Revit in a way that you used to use AutoCAD if you're coming in from the outer get environment so here on the annotate tab we have the detail line tool DL is the shortcut so this basically allows you to place lines now here you can choose the align style from some of the align styles that are offered here and here we have some draw tools now you can do lines create rectangles maybe inscribed polygon circles arcs and so on and so forth you can even create Col splines so you're just coming here to the model and then you start creating regular lines now I can create may be an interesting spline like this switch back to the regular line close it off and there we go now I'm just going to hit the Escape key a couple of times now this is a really cool way to add maybe some details to the model that are maybe a bit too complicated to model and maybe are not necessary to model it just make sure that you don't over use this tool because remember and at any time if you go into 3d those elements are not going to be visible those are only 2d elements which are visible only in views in which they're created and one more thing these lines that you can change here in the align style dialog you don't really have many options but if you want to add more options at any point you can go here to the manage tab go to additional settings and then here we have the align Styles dialog and I'm just going to open that up open expand the menu and here as you can see we have all of the line styles and you can create new subcategories and just customize the color as well as the line pattern to your will and here you can customize the line thickness you can change it anywhere from 1 to 16 just keep in mind that 16 is really thick and let me just cancel that the next tool also has a lot to do with detailing and it's something that they didn't know for a long time and they found really annoying with Revit and that's the fact that if i zoom in here at this wall we have this thermal layer so that's this layer over here and usually for thermal layers in architecture projects you have that batting line it's a very characteristic wavy line now we don't really have that appear in our walls even though the detail level is set to fine and this material is set to do insulation but we can add that by going here to the annotate tab and then we have the insulation batting line so you just click here on this line and then you can add the line here now usually how I like to add these is to go here first the measure tool measure the distance between two layers as you can see it's seven point six centimeters hit the Escape key and go back to the installation tool and then here for the installation with I would type that number in so seven point six and then here I will hit apply and also on the side that says to Center now I like to change that to nearside so that's going to make it easier to place so so instead of placing it on the center and it's hard to pinpoint the center of this you would go to the nearside and then you can just come to this line perhaps over here and then as you can see if you start creating the line it will add that insulation batting line now of course you can maybe change it and of course if you change the scale down to something smaller it might look a bit nicer so as you can see as the lines are thinner this will look better so that's how you add insulation lines in this video I'm going to be showing you a tool that's really cool to use because it actually changes the graphics or what your model actually looks like in your views so here in this 3d view when I have nothing selected and this is for all views when nothing is selected in the properties you get view properties now that's why we have the 3d view that's the name of the view now for the view properties we have this visibility graphic overrides option now if I click here on edit and you can get to the same a menu by clicking on the VGA shortcut or the VV shortcut here we have as you can see model categories and annotation or categories and so on and so forth now for each of these categories you can scroll down and find a specific category for example in this case let's select roofs and for this category you can override the lines the patterns the transparency of projection or surface so that's in 3d view or in elevation view or you also have the cuts so that's for example in the floor plan the walls are being cut or in a section both the floors and the door and maybe the walls and the roofs are being cut and then that's the cut projection so here in this case let's play around with the projection view and let's override the pattern of this roof so I'm just going to change the pattern to solid fill and then the color to something like this very light red click OK click OK again apply and then click OK and I was you can see the roof has turned red so you can pretty much customize the colors of everything now keep in mind that this only works in this view if it switch to any other view maybe here the south or north elevation as you can see that roof is still white so only in the view where we have made that change the change has been applied and finally for our tenth tool I'm going to be showing you one of the tools that was my favorite in AutoCAD and it's still one of my favorites here in rabbit and that's the the option to group elements together so for example in a lot of cases you're going to have a problem where you have a few elements that you're kind of copying around moving around and it's usually easier to work with it as a singular element for example I have this desk and then they have this desk chair and it would be really cool if there were just one element and not two separate elements because if I want to move them around I can may accidentally select another element and then I don't want to move this section so it's really annoying so what I like to do is I like to position everything correctly so this is how I want this to look then I'm going to hold the control key to add to selection and then select the desk select the desk chair and then I'm just going to go here to the modify tab go to the create panel and then here we have the create group option G P is the shortcut for that now you can name that this so I'm just going to call it desk with chair click okay and there we go we have our group and now I can just move the whole group around making it a lot easier for myself and at any point you can go here to edit the group when it's selected and you can maybe add some elements or remove elements like the chair for example or add so let's add the chair so you can just play around with that group now I'm just going to cancel out of this chamber Sall the changes made so there you go that was the tip number 10 okay so that concludes these 10 tools that every beginner should learn in Revit that's going to make your work flow a lot faster and it's going to make working in Revit a lot easier I hope you can found these interesting and I hope you have learned something new now again as I said in the beginning of the tutorial if you want to download any of these project files check out my patreon first link in the description there you can also find all of my advanced courses I've got over 50 hours of content on numerous numerous important rabbit the topics so if you're interested to check it out first a link in the description leads you there ok so that's pretty much it for this tutorial thank you for watching please subscribe like and share this video and if you have any questions comments or suggestions for any future tutorials make sure to leave them in the comment section below thank you for watching and have a nice day

Channel: Balkan Architect

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Length: 20min 50sec (1250 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 23 2020