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

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Using the ribbon and the QAT

Using the ribbon and the QAT - Revit Architecture Tutorial

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Using the ribbon and the QAT

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- [Narrator] Most common way that you're going to access commands in the Revit interface is to use either the ribbon or the Quick Access Toolbar. Let's take a look at these two critical interface elements here in this video. In order to properly show you both of those interface elements, we really need to be in a project. It doesn't matter what project you open. You can open absolutely anything at all. In my case, I'm just going to click this Architectural Template link right here to create a new, empty project. I don't really care what the project is, because we're going to focus all of our attention on these interface elements at the top. At the very top of the screen, we hit the Quick Access Toolbar, or QAT as it's sometimes referred to. And then directly beneath that, we have this tabbed interface here that is the ribbon. The ribbon is the primary interface for accessing commands within the Revit software, and you've probably seen a Revit interface in other software as well. It…

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