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The Revit Architecture Interface
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The View Window
To put it simply, the big white area where the objects go is the view window. As a
result of your actions, this area will become populated with your model. Notice
the background is white — this is because the sheets you plot on are white. In
Revit, what you see is what you get … literally. In Revit, you aren’t counting on
color #5, which is blue, for example, to be a specific line width when you plot.
You will be able to see immediately what the thickness of all of your “lines” are
going to be before you plot. What a novel idea. See Figure 1.18.
FIGURE 1.18: The view window collects the results of your actions.
To continue placing some walls in the model, keep going with the exercise. If
you have not been following along, you can start by clicking the Wall button on
the Home tab. In the Change Element Type menu, select Exterior - Brick and
CMU on MTL. Stud. Make sure that the wall is justified to the finish face exte-
rior. You may now proceed:
1. With the Wall command still running and the correct wall type
selected, position your cursor in a similar location to the illustration
in Figure 1.19. Now, pick a point in the view window.
2. With the first point picked, move your cursor to the left. You will
notice that a few things are happening. One is that the wall seems to
be snapping in a horizontal plane, and there is a blue dashed line that
apparently locks the horizontal position. In Revit, there is no “Ortho.”
Revit will align the typical compass increments 0, 90, 180, 270, and
45 degrees.
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