From the course: Revit 2024: Essential Training for Architecture

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Adding levels

Adding levels

- [Instructor] Early in project setup, one of the first things you want to typically do is establish your levels. Now, levels in Revit are literally representing the floor levels of the building, and to manipulate them, you need to be working in either an elevation or a section view. So I'm going to use this section view that's here in my file, and to open it, I'm simply going to select it, right click and choose Go to View. Alternatively, you will see it here on the project browser. It's beneath the Sections (Working Section) branch. You can expand that and double click Section 1 to open it. You can see that it's bold, indicating that it is currently the active view. These two dash lines here and here are the levels and levels are always parallel to the ground and you want to think of them as a plane. So what you're really seeing is the edge of that plane there. Now, one way that you can visualize that is to open up the…

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