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Element selection

Element selection - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Learning Revit 2024

Element selection

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to discuss a very fundamental skill and that is object selection. Before you can modify really anything in a project you need to be able to select it and being able to quickly select elements that you want to modify while excluding elements that you don't want to modify is a very important skill that you'll want to master. So in this video we're going to begin the process of doing that. Now we could work in any view that we like. Object selection works in any view, 2D views, 3D views, plans, sections, elevations. But for this example, I'm going to work in a level four floor plan. So I'm going to double click L4 here to open up that floor plan view. Now I'm going to zoom in on the lower right hand corner of the plan right here. There's a live work unit, 407 and 409 here. And I want to focus on those two apartments for this example. So let's first talk about pre-selection. Pre-selection is what happens before you click your mouse. So if you move…

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