Revit is a design and documentation platform that supports the design, drawings, and schedules required for building information modeling (BIM), and allows for coordination among all team members.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll be able to:  

* Know about Revit and BIM technology.

* Starting the software and recognize user interface.

* Control the saving reminder, assign default view discipline, apply color theme, customize the keyboard shortcuts, control the working of double-click mouse, and place the location of ready-made templates and library files.

* The safe and easy way to open the standalone file.

* Assign a starting view.

* Recognize project user interface.

* Let’s start Revit software.

Starting with user interface, on the left, Project section within the recent projects list.

Use Open when you can’t find the desired project in the recent projects list.

* In Revit,

you can control the saving reminder alert, assign default view discipline to display, and select discipline tool to display in the ribbon

* It’s too risky to click the Revit file to open,

probably the project will be crashed.

The safe and easy way to open the standalone file is using Open command. 

* When you open a recent file in Revit,

the last saved view will be displayed.

You can specify which view will be opened.

* To access commands in Revit easily,

use Quick Access Toolbar.

Quick Access Toolbar is located on the left side of the title bar.