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Chapter 1 • The Revit World
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Now that you can navigate through the Project Browser, adding other compo-
nents to the model will be much easier. We can now begin to add some windows.
Windows
By clicking on all of these views, you are simply opening a view of the building,
not another fi le that is stored somewhere. For some users this can be confusing.
(It was for me.)
When you click around and open all these views, they stay open. You can
quickly open many views. There is a way to manage these views before they get
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 fi les that are open, as shown in Figure 1.48. Click
the X for the current view.
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 Window panel of the View tab, click the Switch Windows but-
ton, as shown in Figure 1.49.
2. After the menu is expanded, look at the open views.
FIGURE 1.49 The Switch Windows menu lists all the current views that
are open.
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