Click in Empty Space to Reset

Using the Align tool, if you pick the wrong reference element just click away from everything. Revit resets the selection sequence, Align tool stays active.

Same is true for Trim/Extend to Corner, Trim/Extend to Element, Trim/Extend Multiple, Cut and Uncut Geometry, Join and Unjoin Geometry, Dimensioning and some others that don't come to mind.

The split tool is a bit quirky. I find that if I use a tool like copy or trim and then click on Split to use it instead, but then miss an element when I click Revit returns to the previous command. Try it, select Copy and then click on Split, click in empty space and you should see it return to Copy.

Dept. of Reviteristics - "Then Click in Empty Space"

This department deals with the oddities or characteristics that are uniquely Revit.

First up is the notion of "clicking in empty space". This is required to finish a dimensioning task or when you are done using the text tool. This simple task yields a considerable bit of confusion for a lot of new users. Once mastered we easily move on but it seems to be a very foreign concept and I get all kinds of looks when I begin to explain this technique.

All Revit is asking us to do is click somewhere, anywhere...as long as nothing is under the point of our cursor. Revit interprets this as "I'm done thanks!". It really isn't an unreasonable request, Revit just wants us to avoid picking another element so we can finish up.

This technique is also used to reset the Match, Trim/Extend, Align and other tools. We need to master it and it is easy...but it is definitely a Reviteristic.