5 Useful Revit Tricks Every Electrical Engineer Should Know

This is a guest post by electrical engineer and Revit expert Dillon Mitchell. As you’ll see, Dillon has a lot of experience with Revit and has learned a bunch of tricks that help him work smarter and faster. In this post, he shares five of his best tips. Take it away Dillon!


When I first started using Revit, I found the software to be overwhelming. First, there are all those buttons and options. Second, everything was wide open. It seemed that with Revit, if you can imagine it, you can create it. It’s a powerful tool but it can also be intimidating.

Getting started took some effort and I tried to learn just one piece of the software at a time. In a way, I found Revit to be a lot like Excel – there are deeper and deeper levels to it. Yet I made progress learning the software by starting on the surface and mastering the basics.

Over time, I learned some tricks that made modeling electrical systems MUCH easier. Here are my top 5 tips every electrical engineer should know to get…

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