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Although you can do all of this with your wheel button, some users still prefer
the icon method of panning and zooming. For those of you who prefer the icons
for the previous items, you will also want to use the icons for the traditional
zooms as well.
Traditional Zooms
The next items on the Navigation bar are the good old zoom controls that you
are used to. The ability to zoom in, zoom out, and pan are all included in this
function, as shown in Figure 1.39.
FIGURE 1.39: The standard zoom commands
Of course, if you have a mouse with a wheel, you can zoom and pan by either
holding down the wheel to pan or by wheeling the button to scroll in and out.
Thin Lines
Back on the View tab, you will see an icon called thin lines, as shown in Figure 1.40.
Let’s talk about what this icon does.
In Revit Architecture, there is no such thing as layers. Line weights are con-
trolled by the actual objects they are representing. In the view window, you see
these line weights. As mentioned before, what you see is what you get. Sometimes,
however, these line weights may be too thick for smaller-scale views. By clicking
the thin lines icon as shown in Figure 1.40, you can force the view to display
only the thinnest lines possible to still see the objects.
FIGURE 1.40: Using the thin lines icon will allow you to “operate” on the finer items
in a model.
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