From the course: Learning Revit 2021
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Opening a project
- [Instructor] When you first launch Revit, you'll be greeted with the home screen. It welcomes you to the product and gives you some options to either open an existing or create new files. Now, I'm going to focus on opening a file here in this video. Let's look at the left hand side of the home screen where we have two headings, Models and Families. This shows us that there are two kinds of Revit files available to us. Now for this course, we're going to focus mostly on models. Models are your project files and they contain all of your building geometry and data. And they're where you're going to spend most of your time when you're working on projects. Now a family is more like an individual component or an item that you would place inside a model, like a piece of furniture or equipment, or even a door or window. And while it's actually possible to open one of these files and work on those items directly, we won't be doing that here. So, I want to open an existing model, therefore…
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