Revit Shortcut Keys For Fast Work

Revit Shortcut Keys:

For all the work you do in Revit, there’s a keyboard shortcut that can help you do it faster.

In this post we have arranged most common and most used Revit shortcut keys. Lets 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.