From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Touring the user interface

Touring the user interface

- [Instructor] So, if you're used to a typical CAD interface such as AutoCAD or even MicroStation, the Revit interface is going to seem a little bit alien to you. In Revit, there's really not a lot of customization and what you see is definitely what you're going to get. It's this way for a reason. Revit MEP is a program that deals specifically with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing for buildings. While a traditional CAD program needs to work for anything you would ever want to model, be it a building or machine screw. Before we get started, I just want you to know that you're going to get used to it. I promise. The objective of this video is to look at the ribbon, the project browser, datum, and properties. So let's jump into Revit. If you remember, under Projects, we can start a new project or we can just click on one of these templates but you may also notice that our last model we had open is right here. I'm just going to click on this. Now that will bring us into the Revit…

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