The commonly used tabs in Revit are found in the far right section of the top ribbon menu. These tabs include Selection, Properties, Shapes, Models, Controls, Connectors, Baselines, Workplanes, and Family Editors, covering a total of nine essential functions.
1. Selection Palette
This palette enables selection mode, allowing you to select objects by hovering the cursor over graphic elements. It is visible across all tabs.
2. Attributes Palette
This palette contains tools for viewing and editing object properties. While editing families, it provides four fundamental attribute sections: “Attributes,” “Family Types,” “Family Categories and Parameters,” and “Type Attributes.” It appears in the “Common” and “Modify” tabs.
To access the “Family Category and Parameters” dialog, click Home > Properties > Family Category and Parameters on the ribbon. Here, you can specify the family category and parameters, which will adjust based on the selected family category.
To open the “Family Types” dialog, click Common > Properties > Family Types on the ribbon. This allows you to create multiple family types and differentiate them by setting various parameter values.
3. Shape Palette
This palette includes all tools needed to create 3D shapes. You can form solid or hollow shapes by using operations such as extrusion, blending, rotation, layout, and fusion.
4. Model Palette
It provides tools for creating and placing model lines, components, model text, and model groups. You can define a set of elements or insert them into the current view.
5. Control Palette
Use this palette to add controls to your view, including unidirectional or bidirectional vertical and horizontal flip arrows. Flip arrows allow you to change the orientation of a family in the project—for example, controlling the opening direction of a door.
6. Connectors Palette
This palette lets you add connectors to components, including electrical, plumbing, HVAC supply, and exhaust connections.
7. Benchmark Palette
Offers two types of reference elements: reference lines and reference planes.
8. Work Plane Palette
Allows you to specify a work plane for the current view or selected elements. You can toggle its visibility or enable the Work Plane Viewer to create a temporary view for editing selected elements.
9. Family Editor Palette
This palette is used to load families into open projects or family files. It supports all ribbon panels and will not be detailed further in this overview.
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