
If you want to know more, check out the most recent Have You Tried topic. You can create a keyboard shortcut for the Insert Part command to toggle insert or end to avoid clicking the command on the contextual ribbon tab. You can create keyboard shortcuts for frequently used contextual commands to be more productive with commonly used workflows.įor example, when you use the MEP Fabrication Parts palette to place fabrication parts, you may find it cumbersome to click the Insert Part command on the contextual ribbon tab each time you want a valve to break into a fabrication pipe, instead of the default end placement. Keyboard shortcuts for contextual commands

If you are looking to quickly apply a sense of depth to a view or enhance views that use linework to represent depth, you should take a look at the article here: Have You Tried – Depth Cueing. When combined with linework and silhouette edges Depth Cueing can really affect the way elevations and sections are presented.

Depth cueing is a graphic display option in Revit that allows you to create the effect of depth by having objects fade into the background color with increasing distance from the viewer. This can be a quick way to communicate a sense of depth in a view. This allows you to apply a faded value to elements at a distance in elevation and section views. As an alternative, maybe consider Depth Cueing. You can of course use the linework tool to change the lineweight, but it is a manual line by line process that can be quite time consuming. Depth Cueingĭo you ever feel like elevation and section views from Revit come off a little flat? By default, lines are either cut, or projected. I look across what’s new, what’s been around for a while, what maybe you didn’t already know, and find things that can make quality of life for working in Revit better, while making you more productive. If you have a question or something I should try, leave it in the comments. In this series Have You Tried, I profile a useful feature or workflow in Revit here on the Revit blog, and link to a more in-depth, step-by-step walkthrough of it on the Revit Product Help.

Hi, I’m Jeff Hanson, Senior Content Experience Designer at Autodesk.
