Sunday, September 16, 2012

Shortcut Keys

I think I have come to accept that I am a horrible blogger. I seem to blog a few entries each year. I have had a lot of interest in this blog and perhaps it is time to start posting useful information more often as I have previously promised. Revit is a fantastic program, and I would love to see more firms and individuals leverage this software more and more.

I think I will go through some of the helpful tips as I would teaching a new employee at our office. Let's start with Shortcuts.

Revit uses a pair of two key commands for all of it's shortcuts. The defaults are very intuitive and many custom shortcuts can be setup. For example WA for wall, DR for door, TL for thin lines, TR for trim etc. If you don't know the shortcut key, don't worry about having to research to find it, just find the button, hover the mouse over, and it will tell you what the shortcut keys are.

If you create additional shortcuts and the key commands start to get used up, Revit allows you to go to three or more keys, for example, if you want to use MA for both Masking Region and Mass, you can instead setup the shortcuts to be MASK and MASS. Easy enough to remember right?

Don't feel limited to only two keys if you're like me and want a shortcut for everything. I've been using Revit so long, I don't know where half the buttons are in the Ribbon because I'm so used to using the shortcut keys for almost everything.