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The Revit Architecture Interface

If you start a command, then focus immediately on the view, you will be sit-

ting there wondering what to do next. Do not forget to check your Options bar

and the appropriate ribbon tab.

Let’s keep going and close this building by using a few familiar commands. If

you have never drafted on a computer before, don’t worry. These commands are

simple. The easiest but most important topic is simply how to select an object.

Object Selection

Revit has a few similarities to AutoCAD and MicroStation. One of those similarities

is the ability to perform simple object selection and to execute common modify

commands. For this example, we will mirror the two 16

′

–0

″

L-shaped walls to the

bottom of the building:

1. Type ZA (zoom all).

2. Near the two 16

′–0″ L-shaped walls, pick (left-click) and hold down

the left mouse button when the cursor is at a point to the left of the

walls but above the long, 100

′–0″ horizontal wall.

3. You will see a window start to form. Run that selection window past the

two walls. After you highlight the walls, as illustrated in Figure 1.22, let

go of the mouse button, and you have selected the walls.

FIGURE 1.22 Using a crossing window to select two walls

There are two ways to select an object: by using a crossing window or by using

a box. Each approach plays an important role in how you select items in a model.

Crossing Windows

A crossing window describes an object selection method in which the window

being placed only needs to cross through the objects in order to select them. A

crossing window will always start from the right and end to the left. The cross-

ing window, when being placed, is represented by a dashed-line composition (see

Figure 1.22).

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