REVIT TUTORIAL

When you are ready to begin a new design in Revit, create a model.

Use any of the following methods:

 On the Home page, under Models, click New.

 Press CTRL+N.

 Click File tab New  (Project).

Important: Revit models are not backwards-compatible. When you create or modify a model using
the current release of the software, you cannot open the model later using a previous release.

Creating Models
When you are ready to begin a new design in Revit, create a model.

Use any of the following methods:

 On the Home page, under Models, click New.

 Press CTRL+N.

 Click File tab New  (Project).

Important: Revit models are not backwards-compatible. When you create or modify a model using
the current release of the software, you cannot open the model later using a previous release.

About Structural Templates

When you use a structural template as the starting point for a new model, the view properties and
ranges are modified to work with structural components.

Although you can work with structural components in projects based on non-structural templates,
you must modify view ranges to display the structural components in the view.

This is because structural components, such as beams and columns, are placed on the level below
the view you are working in. Therefore, they fall below the bottom cut plane of the view range and do
not display.

The structural template has been modified specifically to take this into account.

Specify the Starting View for a Model

You can specify the view that Revit displays by default when a particular model is opened.

The default setting for a starting view is <Last Viewed>, that is, whichever view was active the last
time the model was closed.
When a model is workshared and synchronized with the central model, the specified starting view is
applied to all local models. This view is opened when the central or any local model is opened, and
when any team member uses the Open dialog to detach from the central or create a local model.

Best practices for starting views

 You can reduce the amount of time required to open a model by choosing a simple view as the
starting view.
 You might create a special view that contains important project information and notices that you
want to share with team members. Use this view as the starting view so that team members
always see this information when they open the project.
To specify a starting view

1. Open the model.

2. Click Manage tab Manage Project panel    Starting View.

3. In the Starting View dialog, specify the starting view, and click OK.
When Revit loads this model, the specified view is opened.