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Chapter 1 • The Revit World
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FIGURE 1.32: The completed exterior walls should look like this illustration.
Just because you have placed a wall in the model, that does not necessarily
mean it looks the way you would like. In Revit Architecture, there is a lot you
can do with view control and how objects are displayed.
View Control and Object Display
Although this is a nice way to add walls to a drawing, it does not reflect the
detail you are going to need to produce construction documents. Well, the great
thing about Revit is that you have already done everything you need to do. You
can now tell Revit to display the graphics the way you want to see them.
The View Control Bar
At the bottom of the view window, you will see a skinny toolbar (as illustrated in
Figure 1.33). This is the View Control bar. It contains the following functions:
FIGURE 1.33: The View Control bar controls the graphical view of your model.
Scale The first item on the View Control bar is the scale function. It gets small
mention here, but it is a huge deal. In Revit, you change the scale of a view by
selecting this menu. Change the scale here, and Revit will scale annotations and
symbols accordingly. See Figure 1.34.
Detail Level The detail level allows you to view your model at different quali-
ties. You have three to choose from: Coarse, Medium, and Fine. See Figure 1.35.
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