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The Revit Architecture Interface
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well. Revit understands that perhaps you want an arc tangent upon
the two lines you have already placed in your model.
11. When you see the tangent snap icon, choose the third point. Your walls
should look like Figure 1.32.
12. Press Esc to terminate the command.
FIGURE 1.32 The completed exterior walls should look like this illustration.
Just because you have placed a wall in the model does not mean the wall looks
the way you would like. In Revit Architecture, you can do a lot with view control
and how objects are displayed.
View Control and Object Display
Although the earlier procedures are a nice way to add walls to a drawing, they
do not refl ect the detail you will need to produce construction documents. Well,
the great thing about Revit is that you have already done everything you need to
do. You can now tell Revit to display the graphics the way you want to see them.
The View Control Bar
At the bottom of the view window, you will see a skinny toolbar (as illustrated in
Figure 1.33). This is the View Control bar. It contains the functions outlined in
the following list:
FIGURE 1.33 The View Control bar controls the graphical view of your model.
Scale The fi rst item on the View Control bar is the scale function. It gets small
mention here, but it is a huge deal. In Revit, you change the scale of a view by
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