From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)

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Navigating views: Zoom, pan, and rotate

Navigating views: Zoom, pan, and rotate - Revit Architecture Tutorial

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Navigating views: Zoom, pan, and rotate

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In this video we're going to talk about view navigation, things like zooming and panning, and being able to successfully navigate your views is an important skill for any graphics program, and Revit is certainly no exception. So the most popular way to perform view navigation is to just simply use the wheel on your mouse. Now if you don't have on your mouse, it's time to get one. Now to zoom with the wheel, all you need to do is roll the wheel, if you roll up, it zooms in. And if you roll down, it zooms out. Now, you also want to pay attention to where your mouse pointer actually is. If my mouse pointer is nearby something, that's going to be the center of the zoom, so you don't actually have to select anything, don't click it, but just put your mouse in the general vicinity. So near this railing, for example, notice that when I zoom in, it keeps that railing focused in the center of the screen. I'm going to zoom back out. If I put my mouse near this dormer, and I roll in, then I'm…

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