AUTODESK REVIT MOST IMPORTANT TIPS AND SHORTCUTS TO KNOW-PART 3
When inputting certain fields of measures into different Revit fields, such as the length of a wall, you can put away the calculator. Revit can read formulas in this fields, and will calculate this formula for you. For example, if you have a wall set at 20’-0, but need to lower this wall height by 60%, you can simply write “=20’-0*.6” into the Revit field, and Revit will do the rest.
Note that in order for Revit to recognize your input as a formula, you must put the “=” sign in front of the formula.
2. COPY MULTIPLE ITEMS TO MULTIPLE LEVELS
When you need to copy multiple items to multiple levels, just simply highlight the items, click the Copy to Clip Board button, then under the Paste Drop-Down select the option.
By using “Aligned to Selected Levels”, you can paste them into one or more levels. In the dialog that displays, choose the levels by name. To select more than one, press Ctrl while selecting the names.
By using “Aligned to Selected Views”, you can copy view-specific elements (such as dimensions) or model and view-specific elements, you can paste them into similar types of views.
By using “Aligned to Current View”, you can paste the elements to the current view. For example, you can paste elements from a plan view to a callout view. The view must be different from the view where the elements were cut or copied.
By using “Aligned to Same Place”, you can paste the elements into the same place from where you cut or copied them. This option is useful for pasting elements between work sets or design options. Also, you can use it to paste between 2 files that have shared coordinates. Keep in mind that this option is only available if the active view you are pasting your object on is the same type of view as the view in which you copied the original element from. For example, you can paste objects aligned to the same place between two floor plan views, but not from a floor plan to a section view.
By using “Aligned to Picked Level”, you can paste the elements in an elevation view. You must be in an elevation view to use this tool, because it requires that you select a level line on which to paste the elements.
3. CHECK YOUR ROOM HEIGHTS
5. NUDGING OBJECTS
8. COPY SCHEDULE BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROJECTS
Option 1:
Rooms are essential for scheduling, especially in a multi-discipline team. Unfortunately, rooms created in Revit often don’t go full height. Make sure they are the correct height by turning on a cut section and looking for the room fill.
Otherwise you can click on the room and set its height in the properties. This ensures all fixtures are correctly assigned to the room and that the room is the right size for MEP calculations.
4. USE VIEW LIST SCHEDULE TO CHECK VIEW SETTING
In a project, under the View tab and Schedules drop-down list, you can create a View List schedule to check all the view settings.
On the Fields tab of the View List Properties dialog, select the fields to be include in the view list. If you want to create user-defined fields, click Add Parameter. By using the Filter, Sorting/Grouping, Formatting, and Appearance tabs, you can simplify the schedule.
Most of fields can modify directly in the schedule. Think about that project where you have hundreds of views, and maybe dozens of floor plans, directly editing fields in the schedule can save
you a lot of time of going through each and every field.
In a project, under the View tab and Schedules drop-down list, you can create a View List schedule to check all the view settings.
On the Fields tab of the View List Properties dialog, select the fields to be include in the view list. If you want to create user-defined fields, click Add Parameter. By using the Filter, Sorting/Grouping, Formatting, and Appearance tabs, you can simplify the schedule.
Most of fields can modify directly in the schedule. Think about that project where you have hundreds of views, and maybe dozens of floor plans, directly editing fields in the schedule can save
you a lot of time of going through each and every field.
5. NUDGING OBJECTS
If you need objects to move in a certain direction ever so slightly, but sacrifice precision, you can nudge them by using the arrow keys with the object selected. The closer you zoom into the object, the finer the nudge will become. Vice versa, as you zoom out, the nudge is greater. Holding Shift while nudging will increase the amount of nudge as well.
6. IMPORTING CAD & REVIT FILES TO THE RIGHT LOCATION
There are a variety of ways to import or link a Revit or CAD Drawing to Revit Model. One purpose for this is to overlay different models on top of one another as reference. You have to, however, import to the correct location, or else models won’t overlay correctly. When importing a Revit or CAD file, it is best to use the “Link Revit/CAD” or “Import CAD” commands found under the Insert Category of the top ribbon. Avoid Dragging and dropping, as this will prompt you to manually specify the location where the referenced file will sit.
Once you have clicked one of these commands, you will be asked to select a reference file. Before actually importing the file into the space, you will notice that there is a choice as to where to place this referenced file.
The selections do the following:
Auto-Center to Center
Based off the average CenterPoint of everything in the referenced file, this point will be placed on the average center point of the Revit model space. The center point changes as models are changed, so it is not a reliable positioning to use for overlaying files.
Auto-Origin to Origin
The referenced file will place its own origin point at the origin point of the revit file. This is useful in overlaying referenced files if all of the models are located at the same location in relations to the origin point.
Auto-By Shared Coordinates
If you assign a coordinate to each model, the model will be placed exactly within its specified coordinates. This is useful if the project has been set up initially to utilize a shared coordinate system.
Manual
All manual selection involved you manually specifying a point to place the referenced file. Manual-Origin will ask you to manually place the referenced file’s origin point, while manual base point will ask you to manually place the referenced file based off a selected based point. Manual-Center will ask you to manually place the referenced file based off it’s center point.
In the end, it is best to use either Origin to Origin or By Shared Coordinates to overlay referenced files for collaboration.
7. IMPORT CAD FILE LINEWEIGHT
The line weight of lines and layers that are set to Default in AutoCAD will be assigned according to the import settings accessed by clicking File menu > Import/Export Settings > Import Line Weights DWG/DXF.
If you change the line weights in the DWG/DXF file in AutoCAD from Default to a set line weight, then the lines and layers will be imported according to the line weight that you set.
8. COPY SCHEDULE BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROJECTS
Sometimes we want to use the same schedule in another project that can help to evaluate certain design decision, but we don’t want to create the similar schedule from scratch especially after you created some custom schedules and included conditional formatting & formulas.
Option 1:
The easiest thing to do is to actually just right-click on the schedule and copy it to the clipboard. Then hold down Control key and press Tab and it will cycle back to the other open window. Now each time Control + Tab it will cycle to the next open window. If you go Control + Shift + Tab it will go in reverse and you can cycle between any windows you have open.
After you get the project window you want to paste the schedule to, you can use the Paste Button or Control + V to paste the schedule. Note, the schedule cannot be paste in the perspective view window.
Option 2:
You can also select all the schedules you want to use in another project and right-click save to a new file. This will prompt you for name and location. Then, you need go to the Insert tab to bring the schedule back to project and it will list out all of the views that are eligible to be imported from the file.
9. REVEAL THE CONSTRAINTS
Constraints offer a really powerful way for us to build our design intent into our models and keep it from accidentally being modified, but there can be times when you try and make a modification to your model and it generates a warning or an error, indicating that the constraints aren’t satisfied, or perhaps you aren’t allowed to make a particular modification.
The Reveal Constraints display mode makes it easy to temporarily highlight (in red) all constraints in the active view. This makes it easy to distinguish a locked dimension (constraint) from a regular dimension. After creating constraints, you can highlight them by enabling this display mode from the View Control Bar’s dimension lock icon.
Constraints offer a really powerful way for us to build our design intent into our models and keep it from accidentally being modified, but there can be times when you try and make a modification to your model and it generates a warning or an error, indicating that the constraints aren’t satisfied, or perhaps you aren’t allowed to make a particular modification.
The Reveal Constraints display mode makes it easy to temporarily highlight (in red) all constraints in the active view. This makes it easy to distinguish a locked dimension (constraint) from a regular dimension. After creating constraints, you can highlight them by enabling this display mode from the View Control Bar’s dimension lock icon.
10. DIMENSIONING USING ALTERNATIVE UNITS
Sometimes when you are working on a project, you may need the dimensions in different formats, such as both metric and imperial units.
To define alternate dimension units, on the Dimension panel of the Annotate tab, click the type of dimension for which you wish to define alternate units.
On the Properties palette, click Edit Type. In the Type Properties dialog, for Alternate Units, select one of the following options:
Right – alternate units display in-line to the right of the primary units.
Below – alternate units display below the primary units.
For Alternate Units Format, click the button to open the Format dialog, change the settings as desired, and click OK, then clear Use project settings (if selected) and from the Units menu, select an appropriate unit.
Revit Shortcuts
A
AA Align
AL Align
AP Group Objects
AS Align
C
CC Copy
CS Create Similar
D
DD Align Dimension
DE Delete
DI Dimension
DL Detail Line
DM Mirror From Drawn Line
DR Door
E
EL Spot Elevation
G
GP Group
L
LC Link CAD
LI Align
LR Line Model
M
MA Match Type Properties
MI Mirror
MM Mirror From Axis
MN Manage Link
MV Move
O
OF Offset
P
PB Project Browser
PI Align
PN Pin
R
RE Scale
RG Remove Object from Group
RM Room
RO Rotate
RP Reference Plane
S
SA Select All Instances
SC Snap Center
SE Snap End
SI Snap Intersection
SL Splits an Element
SM Snap Middle
SN Snap Nearest
SP Snap Perpendicular
SS Splice
T
TG Tag
TR Trim
TX Text
U
UG Ungroup
UP Unpin
V
VG Adjust Visibility Graphics
VP View Properties
VV View Manager
W
WA Wall
WN Window
Z
ZE Zoom Extents
ZO Zoom Out
ZX Zoom to Fit
ZZ Zoom in Region
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