Shortcuts/cheat-sheet?

[Brian Myers]

Is there a list of Revit shortcuts/keystrokes that can be printed off anywhere? I've been using Revit for a few hours each day now learning the program, yet new "finds" are coming up every day.

Example: I just figured out that Shift allows objects to be copied and mirrored more easily from one wall to another.

So, does anyone have a cheat-sheet or shutcut list they like to use?

[dhurtubise]

Try the keyboardshortcut.txt file in C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit Building 9\Program

[Brian Myers]

Try the keyboardshortcut.txt file in C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit Building 9\Program Ah, I will look at it in the morning!
:beer: Thanks!

[Dimitri Harvalias]

The keyboard shortcuts are simply the Revit commands out of the box that are accessible using two letter shortcuts. These can be customised any way you want. In additon to those always keep the two letter shortcuts for object snaps in mind. (visible under Settings/Snaps)
I think what Brian is after is other tricks. You'll find that Revit is pretty Windows compliant in terms of the way it works.

Just a brief list of more shortcuts

Ctrl-Tab Cycle through open windows
Shift-Ctrl_tab Reverse cycle through open windows
Shift-Click Add to selection set
Ctrl-Click Remove from selection set
Hover (pre-highlight) -Tab Select a chain of walls/objects or to cycle through available objects
Spacebar Rotate or flip oientation of walls/components while placing them
Hold Ctrl down while dragging a highighted object to copy it
Hold Middle mouse button+drag to Pan (2D and 3D views)
Hold Middle mouse button + Ctrl Dynamic Zoom
Hold middle mouse button + Shift Orbit (3D view)
Scroll wheel to zoom in/out
Right click in the horizontal/vertical scroll bars to reveal a context menu

The list goes on, but it's late :beer:

[Melarch]

Don't forget all of the MSWindow Window Key and Accelerator Key shortcuts at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449/en-us for releases prior to Windows 2000 or XP and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583/en-us for later releases

[aaronrumple]

Select/Ctrl/Drag does a copy.
Spacebar flips objects.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Thanks to Jim for another one I was not aware of.

You can use Alt+Enter to edit the Element properties of almost everything.

I found out today you can use Ctrl+Enter to toggle between Element and Type properties.

__________________
Jim Voight

[DaveP]

Shift-Click Add to selection set
Ctrl-Click Remove from selection set
Hover (pre-highlight) -Tab Select a chain of walls/objects or to cycle through available objects
Spacebar Rotate or flip oientation of walls/components while placing them

The list goes on, but it's late :beer:Nice list, Dimitri, et. al. Thanks

I've got one correction, and two additions.
A Shift-Click REMOVES something from a selection set, and
a Ctrl-click ADDs to the selection set.

Also, if you hold the Delete key down, you can delete items one-by-one by clicking on them. It's often faster (although slightly more dangerous) than Click-Delete,...Click-Delete...Click-Delete....

And finally, when placing an object, if you move it over an angled object, Spacebar will not only rotate the object 90 degrees, but will align it with the object.

Hey, Wes. I know you're listening. When this thread slows down, can you add it to Tips & Tricks? (Or is that Steve? Or Scott? Who moderates T&T, anyway?)

[Brian Myers]

Thanks guys for the help!

[todd.69291]

Here is what we use for our office.

[Brian Myers]

Here is what we use for our office.

Very nice Todd, I'll print this out Monday morning.
:)

[dhurtubise]

Cool work. Definitely cool
Thanks a lot

[Paul Andersen]

Haven't seen this one listed elsewhere so here it goes.

While moving, copying, mirroring or rotating something have you ever wanted to toggle the copy or constrain check box in option bar to the opposite of its default? You are probably working in the lower right hand corner of your screen and now need to travel all the way to the upper left to do so. Or you let it copy and delete the original (sometimes faster and probably less mouse travel / wrist movement).

Next time after invoking one of these commands try holding down the ctrl key to temporarily toggle the copy check box and / or the shift key to toggle the constrain box.

[Chirag Mistry]

Here's all the predefined shortcuts in Revit

[Simon.Whitbread]

Came up with this document for our users. Printed it double sided at A5 and had it laminated. With over 100 new users, its really helped everyone familiarise themselves with both the interface and shortcuts. There are additional ones we have added (in blue) which really aid 3D navigation.
I'm surprised Autodesk didn't do something like this

[Martin P]

In the project browser within Revit you can press numlock and asterix to expand all branches - and numlock and minus to collapse all branches. Useful when use use browser organisation and all the branches appear collapsed.

( these are windows explorer shortcuts that also works in revit project browser)

[carlosb.101393]

I saw this shortcut previously: Hold middle mouse button + Shift Orbit (3D view) but if you use it on a view with an object selected the rotation would be around the selected object.

[s.messing]

Hey guys. These shortcut lists are great! I was in the process of putting together a shortcut list for the users in my office and I think that what you have all done is so excellent that I will completely revise mine and add in all of your suggestions as well. I did want to point out one thing...



In the project browser within Revit you can press numlock and asterix to expand all branches - and numlock and minus to collapse all branches. Useful when use use browser organisation and all the branches appear collapsed.

( these are windows explorer shortcuts that also works in revit project browser)
In Revit in the project browser, you can hit the plus sign or minus sign to expand and contract views without the numlock asterisk. You can hit minus twice to "hide" all child views or hit plus plus to open the view and then the corresponding next subset or child.

Anyway, I would like to reiterate (I have said this before) that the way people share information and work together in this forum is truly amazing. I have received exceptionally well crafted insights and responses to my posts.
Thanks,
Stephen

[TroyGates]

Didn't see it mentioned..

Hold Shift while picking points for walls, lines, etc will constrain you to Ortho mode.

Hold Shift while moving something will also do Ortho for vertical/horizontal objects and will constrain to a perpendicular path for angular objects.

[John K.]

And finally, when placing an object, if you move it over an angled object, Spacebar will not only rotate the object 90 degrees, but will align it with the object.
Hot tip! Thanx! <<hits "add to karma" button...>>

jk

[Mike Hardy-Brown]

Have you had a look at digital building solutions (http://www.digitalbuildingsolutions.com/)
There is a Revit shortcut highway pgm. VERY COOL!!!

[Rols]

With an object selected:
-type VH to turn that category off (same as going to visibility graphics and turning it off)
-type HH to temporarily hide the object
-type HC to temporarily hide that object's category
-type HR to restore the tempory hide settings

[irwin]

Here are a few more. Some of them might be well known to most users, but there are always some users who haven't yet figured them out:

- Arrow keys nudge selected object; Shift Arrow nudges 10 times as much.
- When box selecting, if you drag left to right it selects only those elements entirely within the rectangle; if you drag right to left it selects elements that cross the rectangle as well.
- Tab before selecting cycles through selection candidates. Tab while sketching cycles through possible snaps. This can be used to disable snapping in a particular case. Shift Tab cycles backwards.
- SO disables all snaps for the next pick. Look in the snaps dialog box for other snap control keyboard tricks.
- Tab to select a chain of lines or walls when none of them is already selected. To select only part of a chain, select a line in the chain, then mouse over another line in the chain, Tab, pick, selects the part of the chain connecting those two lines.
- Esc key generally gets you out of the current command and back to the Modify tool (sometimes you need a few Escapes to get out several levels).
- CS when an element is selected invokes the Create Similar command; this puts you into the appropriate tool to create an element like the selected one, and it sets up the Type to be the same as the original.
- Typing a number while sketching a line finishes creating a line in the direction you were going with the specified length. Similar behavior for other commands such as Move -- the value typed goes into the "listening" temporary dimension (which is the one that is bold).
- When entering a number in feet and inches, type the feet then a space then the inches -- no need to put " and '. (I didn't know this one myself for the longest time :-( ).
- Any time you are entering a number (such as in a temporary dimension) you can put an equal sign and then type an expression. For example, to sketch a golden rectangle with one side 10, set the other side to =10*(sqrt(5)-1)/2. Revit will calculate the expression and use that value.
- If you are sketching many arcs or circles with the same radius, pick the Radius check box in the option bar and type the radius before sketching. This works even in the straight line tool for creating a rounded polyline.
- Drag the witness line control on a temporary dimension to a different reference to control a different distance.
- This one isn't keyboard related, but it's something that people often don't notice. If one or more elements are selected and you don't see any temporary dimensions, press Activate Dimensions from the option bar.

[dbaldacchino]

Those are great tips; CS remains to date my favorite shortcut, and I think the most productive command too. It's funny that YOU didn't know for a long time about the feet and inches input....must have been some other neaky programmer that slipped that in eh? :) I personally didn't know the one you mentioned about selecting one object and then hovering over another one and tabbing to select the chain connecting the two. I just tried it out and it's cool. If you have a closed chain, it'll go the direction of which node you place your mouse.

Regarding the last tip you mentioned.....if you have a bunch of objects and only one of them is dimensioned to some other reference, you can still move them all together by editing that dimension. Just select a bunch of objects, inluding the one that has a dimension to something else, then click the Activate Dimensions button and it'll turn blue. Type in a value and all the selected objects will move together with the dimensioned one.

[rjcrowther]

This is great stuff. I have summarized it and am going to keep it next to my keyboard shortcuts sheet. I don't know if others will find this useful but here it is anyway.

Some of the keyboards shortcuts are missing because I didn't want any doubling up of them. I use the shortcuts developed in this discussion http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=50716

[Kiteman48]

- When entering a number in feet and inches, type the feet then a space then the inches -- no need to put " and '. (I didn't know this one myself for the longest time ).

You can also go to fractions. 15' -3 1/2"
is 15 space 3 space 1/2 space.
But if they are simple fractions then decimal inches is even faster.
so 15 space 3.5 space is faster.
I guess 15'-3" is fastes at 15.25

[irwin]

- When entering a number in feet and inches, type the feet then a space then the inches -- no need to put " and '. (I didn't know this one myself for the longest time :-( ).


Even better, type the feet then a minus sign ('-') then inches. For example, for 3'-5" type 3-5. Why is that better than using Space? Because the '-' key is on the numeric keypad. For ages I've been thinking I need a space bar on my numeric keypad. Then, reading Steve Stafford's recent post on autodesk.revitbuilding jarred by memory and reminded me you could use the minus sign instead. Thanks Steve.

[david.kingham]

I don't think this was mentioned...Ctrl+Left Arrow is previous selection set