How To Select Floor In Revit

As soon as you hit the floor icon you will be presented with sub options architectural floor structural floor and floor.

How to select floor in revit.

See selecting elements using a filter. Use sketching tools to change the boundaries. Go to a view where you can easily see and select your floor. Several releases ago they added some new select options in revit.

Which is the easiest way to select a floor to edit it. Revit also allows you to initiate the command first then select the objects. This is one of the best way to be efficient. For now let s stick with floor.

This is very useful when trying to select floors or ceilings. In a plan view select the floor and click modify floors tabmode panel edit boundary. Prior to this select option you had to select the edge of the floor or ceiling which usually lines up with the wall and it was difficult to select. Watch the tooltip and the status bar to be sure you select the floor not another element.

Edit the floor boundary and use the align and trim tools to create a closed loop sketch. After creating a floor you can change its profile to modify its boundaries. When performing the procedures you may notice minor differences in. I ll be covering the 2nd and 3rd options in other tutorials.

This video was recorded using revit 2020. Revit 2021 imperial. You will see a dimension in blue. 5 use temporary dimensions.

In the example below we use this tool to quickly create walls. One of them was select element by face. To create a revit floor access the architecture menu the build panel and then select floor. You don t have to change to ribbon tab to modify first.

Add a floor by picking walls to create the boundary. Revit allows you to select object first then activate a modify command. This is called noun verb selection. In part 4 of the tutorial you create a mezzanine in the store room area of the building.

If desired you can use a filter to select the floor. Select it and click edit footprint on the ribbon now select the relevant view to modify it from the list that appears.