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The Revit Architecture Interface
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Boxes
A box is an object selection method that will only select the items that are 100
percent inside the window being placed. This method is useful when you want to
select only specific items while passing through larger objects that you may not
want in the selection set. A box always starts from the left and works to the
right. The line type is a continuous line (see Figure 1.23).
FIGURE 1.23: To select only objects that are surrounded by the window, select a box.
This will leave out any item that may only be partially within the box.
Now that you have experience selecting items, you can execute some basic
modify commands. Let’s begin with mirroring, one of the most popular modify
commands.
Modifying and Mirroring
You will find that Revit Architecture requires that you select items first, and
then execute a command. This is true for most action items, and is certainly
true for every command on the Modify toolbar.
1. Make sure only the two 16'–0" walls are selected.
2. Once the walls are selected, you will see the Modify Walls tab appear.
On the Modify panel, click Mirror
➣ Draw Mirror Axis, as shown in
Figure 1.24.
3. Your cursor will change to a cross hair with the mirror icon illustrat-
ing that you are ready to draw a mirror plane, as shown in Figure 1.25.
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