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Elements Interact with Other Elements—All the Time
Remember: there is one model and many ways to look at it, called views; no matter in which
view you change the model, the change will immediately be updated in all views. And in each
view, you have total control over what information you want to display. Think of a view as a
pair of glasses that can filter what you see—but the underlying model is still there, all the time.
A wall in Revit interacts with other walls to produce clean connections and appropriate
levels of material abstraction. It connects to floors, levels, and roofs; forms rooms; and defines
areas. Windows and doors placed in a wall move with the wall that hosts them when that wall
is repositioned. Deleting a wall will delete all windows and doors in that wall and all dimen-
sions associated with the wall. If you move a level, expect floors, roofs, walls, plumbing, and
electrical features to also move as their parameters change. Keep the interaction of elements in
mind, especially in multiuser scenarios where your changes to the model will affect many views
at once.
Duplicating Views Takes Two Clicks
With Revit, you can duplicate floor plans quickly, allowing you to generate plans as in-progress
working drawings, others for presentation purposes, and still others for final construction docu-
ments (CDs). Note that this is very different from making a copy of a drawing: duplicating does
not create any copy of elements in a model—what happens is that you are simply duplicating a
view of the model and you can have as many different views of the same model as you wish.
Figure 1.4
The Element
Properties dialog
box of a wall
contains many
powerful features
allowing detailed
editing of the wall
assembly.
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