Chapter 3

The Basics of the Revit Toolbox

The road to mastery will always include reinforcement of fundamental skills. Just as an accomplished musician will always practice her scales, we will review the fundamental selection and editing tools throughout the Revit Architecture program. There are many tools in Revit that can assist you in refining your models and project designs. Some are simple geometry editing functions whereas others possess more powerful capabilities. In this chapter, we'll review these tools and provide some exercises for you to remain productive.

In this chapter, you'll learn to:

• Select, modify, and replace elements
• Edit elements interactively
• Use other editing tools