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The Project Browser
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7. In the Project Browser, find the Elevations (Building Elevations) cat-
egory. Double-click on South.
8. Also in the Project Browser, notice there is a 3D category. Expand the
3D category, and double-click on the {3D} choice. This will bring you
back to the 3D view you were looking at previous to this exercise.
Now that you can navigate through the Project Browser, adding other compo-
nents to the model will be much easier. To start with, we can begin to add some
windows.
Windows
By clicking on all of these views, you are simply opening a view of the building,
not another file that is stored somewhere. For some users this can be confusing.
(It was for me.)
When you click around and open all of these views, they stay open. You can
quickly open many views. There is a way to manage these views before it gets
out of hand.
In the upper-right corner of the Revit dialog, you will see the traditional close
and minimize/maximize buttons for the application. Just below them are the
traditional buttons for the files that are open, as shown in Figure 1.48. Click the
X for the file.
FIGURE 1.48: You can close a view by clicking the X for the view. This does not close
Revit, or an actual file for that matter — it simply closes that view.
In this case, you have multiple views open. This situation (which is quite com-
mon) is best managed on the View tab. To utilize the Window menu, perform
the following steps:
1. On the Windows panel of the View tab, click the Switch Windows but-
ton, as shown in Figure 1.49
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2. Once the menu is expanded, look at the open views.
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