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Elements Interact with Other Elements—All the Time
Remember: there is one model and many ways to look at it, called views; no matter in which
view you change the model, the change will immediately be updated in all views. And in
each view, you have total control over what information you want to display. Think of a view
as a pair of glasses that can filter what you see—but the underlying model is still there, all
the time.
A wall in Revit interacts with other walls to produce clean connections and appropriate
levels of material abstraction. It connects to floors, levels, and roofs; forms rooms; and defines
areas. Windows and doors placed in a wall move with the wall that hosts them when that wall
is repositioned. Deleting a wall will delete all windows and doors in that wall and all dimen-
sions associated with the wall. If you move a level, expect floors, roofs, walls, plumbing, and
electrical features to also move as their parameters change. Keep the interaction of elements in
mind, especially in multiuser scenarios where your changes to the model will affect many views
at once.
Duplicating Views Takes Two Clicks
With Revit, you can duplicate floor plan views quickly, allowing you to generate plans as in-
progress working drawings, others for presentation purposes, and still others for final construc-
tion documents (CDs). Note that this is very different from making a copy of a drawing of a
floor plan: duplicating does not create any copy of elements in a model—what happens is that
you are simply duplicating a view of the model and you can have as many different views of the
same model as you wish.
Figure 1.4
The Element Prop-
erties dialog box
of a wall contains
many powerful
features allowing
detailed editing of
the wall assembly.
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