Touring Revit Tabs 2

If you install Revit with one of the Autodesk Building Design suites, you will have access to the tools for all three design disciplines, and you can control the visibility of these tabs from the Options dialog box (accessed from the Application menu). These tabs contain tools you will use to create or place content specific to each design discipline.

Contextual Tabs Contextual tabs are revealed when specific elements are selected or element creation commands are launched. As an example, the Modify | Walls contextual tab is displayed when
a wall is selected. These unique tabs are usually colored green to help you distinguish them from other static tabs in the ribbon.

Placing Panels

Within each tab in the ribbon are groups of tools and commands referred to as panels. If you want to make any panel consistently available, you can pull it out of its tab and arrange it anywhere on your computer screen. To relocate a panel, drag the panel out of the ribbon using your mouse pointer on the panel title bar.

The panels will snap together if you hover over a previously placed panel. To return a panel
to the ribbon, hover the mouse pointer over a floating panel and the panel’s border will appear. Click the arrow in the upper portion of the gray bar at the right of the floating panel.

On some panels, you will find special features that can be accessed from the panel’s title bar.

An example of these features can be seen in the Annotate tab of the ribbon. the small arrow on the Text panel is known as a dialog launcher and will open the Type Properties dialog box for Text. Clicking the down arrow on the Tag panel exposes an expanded panel that displays the Loaded Tags and Keynoting Settings commands.