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Getting familiar with the user interface

Getting familiar with the user interface - Revit Tutorial

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Getting familiar with the user interface

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to take a quick tour of the Revit user interface. Now to help us do that, I've got the Revit Architectural Sample model open here on screen. If you're not sure how I accessed this file, I covered that in an earlier video in the previous chapter. So I welcome you to go back and review that now. This file is provided with the software, and you can simply open it up to follow along with me. Okay, so what I want to do in this video is really just kind of walk you through the interface and name each of the sections that we will encounter, so that as we move forward in the course, it'll be easier for you to find your way around. So let's start in the upper left-hand corner with the Quick Access Toolbar. The Quick Access Toolbar is just a bank of icons, things like New, Open, Save, Undo, Redo, but you can actually customize this toolbar and add your own icons if you wish. So think of it almost like your My Favorites bar, and it's just a convenient…

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