Revit - Often Forgotten Tools - Starting View

 To speed up the opening of your Revit project, you should create a drafting or legend view. The "Starting View" button allows you to specify which view in your project will be the opening view.



Speaking of starting views, you can do a lot of things with starting views, from adding basic project information to conveying information to the project team. More on this later though...

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