Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

Modifying Project and
System Settings
In this tutorial, you learn how to modify your Autodesk Revit Structure 2009 working environment. In the first lesson,
you modify the system environment, which is independent of the project settings. In the second lesson, you modify
project settings to control the appearance of the components and subcomponents within that project. Finally, you create
an office template, and set it as your default template.
Modifying System Settings
In this lesson, you learn how to control the system settings within Revit Structure. System settings are local
to each computer and applied to all projects; they are not saved to project or template files.
Modifying General System Options
In this exercise, you modify the settings that control your local Revit Structure working environment. These
settings control the graphics, selection default options, notification preferences, journal cleanup options,
and your username when using worksets.
Set graphics settings
1 Open Revit Structure.
2 Click File menu ➤ Close to close all open projects.
3 Click Settings menu ➤ Options.
4 In the Options dialog, click the Graphics tab.
5 Under Colors, select Invert background color, and click OK.
6 Click File menu ➤ New ➤ Project to open a new Revit Structure project.
7 In the New Project dialog, under Template file, click Browse.
8 In the left pane of the Choose Template dialog, click Training Files, and open
Metric\m_Tutorial_Default.rte.
9 In the New Project dialog, click OK.
Notice that the drawing area is black.
10 Click Settings menu ➤ Options.
11 In the Options dialog, click the Graphics tab.
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