Revit Shortcut Keys For Fast Work

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Revit Shortcut Keys

For all the work you do in Revit, there’s a keyboard shortcut that can help you do it faster. There are some best professional revit modeling services you can also use for better work. In this post, we have arranged the most common and most used Revit shortcut keys. Let’s have a look.

1. Application menu

Ctrl+N – New
Ctrl+O – Open
Ctrl+S – Save
Ctrl+P – Print

2. Function Keys

F1 – Displays revit help
F7 – Spelling
F8 – Navigation wheel
F10 – Keytips

Spacebar – Flip 90 degrees selected elements

Tab – Cycles through snaps or chain of elements

3. Architecture build

WA – Wall
DR – DOOR
WN – Window
CM – Place a component
CL – Column

4. Architecture Model

GP – Create Group
LI – Model Line

5. Architecture Room and Area

RM – Room
RT – Room Tag/Tag Room

6. Architecture Datum

LL – Level
GR – Grid

7. Architecture work plane

RP -Reference plane

8. Annotate Dimension

DI – Aligned dimension
EL -Spot elevation

9. Annotate Detail

DL – Detail line

10. Annotate text

TX – Text
FR – Find/Replace
TG – Tag by category

11. Collaborate Synchronize

RL/RW – Reload latest
ER – Editing requests

12. View Graphics

VG/VV – Visibility graphics
TL – Thin line
RR – Render
RD – Render in Cloud
RG – Render Gallery

13. View Windows

WC – Cascade windows
WT – Tile windows
PP – Properties
KS – Keyboard shortcuts

14. Settings

UN – Project unit
SU – Sun and shadow settings

16. Modify

AL – Align
AR – Array
CO/CC – Copy
CS – Create similar
DE – Delete
DM – Mirror- Draw axis
MM – Mirror- Pick axis
MV – Move
OF – Offset
PN – Pin
RE – Scale
RO – Rotate
SL – Split element
TR – Trim/Extend to corner
UP – Unpin

17. Modify View

EH – Hide in view: Hide elements
EOD – Override graphics in view
LW – Linework
VH – Hide in view: Hide category

18. Zoom

ZA – Zoom all to fit
ZE – Zoom to fit
ZO/ZV – Zoom out
ZP/ZC – Previous pan/zoom
ZS – Previous pan/zoom
ZR/ZZ – Zoom in region

19. Snaps

PC – Snap to point clouds
SC -Centres
SE – Endpoints
SL – Intersections
SM – Midpoints
SN – Nearest
SO – Snap off
SP – Perpendicular
SQ – Quadrants
SR – Snap to remote objects
ST – Tangents
SW – Work plane grid
SX – Points
SZ – Close

20. View control bar

CX – Reveal constraints
GD – Graphic display options
HL – Hidden line
RY – Ray trace
SD – Shaded
WF – Wireframe

Create Your Own Revit Shortcuts

You can easily program your own Revit keyboard shortcuts. To do so, go to View > User Interface > Keyboard Shortcuts or type “KS”.

This will open the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.

All of the default keyboard shortcuts are listed. Any shortcut listed in gray is a system shortcut and cannot be changed. To add a shortcut, find the command in the “Command” column or enter the command name in the “Search” field.

Once you’ve selected the command, enter the shortcut combination in the “Press new keys” text box, then click the “Assign” button.

You have a lot of flexibility in assigning shortcuts. A single command can have multiple shortcuts. Likewise, a single shortcut can be used on multiple commands.

In this case, you use the arrow keys to cycle through the commands as displayed in the status bar. Once you have the command you want, press the space bar to execute the command.