From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Navigating views (zoom, pan, and rotate)

Navigating views (zoom, pan, and rotate) - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Navigating views (zoom, pan, and rotate)

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- [Voiceover] View navigation is one of the most important skills you'll master when you're using a program like Revit. You have to be able to navigate around your view windows, and you have to be able to do it quickly and confidently. So, we're going to look at several different ways that we can do view navigation, both in a 3D view and in 2D views. So I'm currently in a 3D view, and we can use the wheel on our mouse to do most of the basic navigation. And, honestly, you're going to use the wheel on your mouse 90% of them time for view navigation. So if you don't have a wheel on your mouse, it's time to get one. The first is if you roll the wheel. If you roll the wheel down, it will zoom out. If you roll the wheel up, it will zoom in. Wherever the mouse pointer is will be the center of that action. So if I point my mouse in the vicinity of this curb, and I roll the wheel up, it zooms in on that curb. If I put it in the vicinity of this railing over here, and I roll the wheel, it…

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