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The Revit Architecture Interface
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The Ribbon
You will be using the Ribbon for all of the commands you execute in Revit. As you
can see, you don’t have much of a choice to do otherwise. However, this is good,
because it narrows your attention to what is right in front of you. When you pick
an icon on the Ribbon, Revit will react to that with a new tab giving you the spe-
cific additional commands and Options you need. In addition, Revit also keeps
the existing tabs that can help you while you are in the current command, as
shown in Figure 1.8. Again, the focus here is to keep your eyes in one place.
In this book, there will be a few terms thrown at you that you will become
familiar with. Of course we just discussed the Ribbon, but mostly you will be
directed to choose a tab, and to find a panel on that tab.
To keep the example familiar, when you selected the wall button, your instruc-
tions will read: “On the Build panel of the Home tab, click the Wall button.”
FIGURE 1.8 The Ribbon breakdown.
Wh a t ’s th at tool b a r ab o v e th e ri b b o n ?
This toolbar is called the Quick Access toolbar. It is filled with some popular
commands. One special function of this toolbar is the cursor icon. You are
to use this button when you wish to terminate a command. To the left of
this toolbar is what we are calling the Revit Home button. By clicking this
button, you have access to more Revit functions that will be covered later
in the book.
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