Autodesk Revit: Selecting and Filtering Elements

In this Autodesk Revit tutorial I am going to show you how to Select and Filter elements. These are skills that you will need many times in your daily use of Revit. You may wish the video version of this tutorial first…..

 

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We will start this tutorial with Selection techniques and then move onto “Filtering” later. There are 3 main reasons why you will need to select elements: To Move them, to Edit them or to Delete them. If you need to select just a single element, the quickest way is (usually) just click directly on it. More often that not you need to select more than one element at a time. This is where Selection Fences come into play. There are two sorts of Selection Fence- “Enclosed” and “Crossing”- I am going to show you how to create both and the differences between them. Let’s start with an “Enclosed” selection fence. You can see in the image below that I have 3 elements in my model- 2 Walls…

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