Making sense of Revit 2010 Interface

To those who are used to the old interface of Revit 2009 and below, it is a hassle to look for all the commands which have been staying in the same place for past couple of years. Until Revit 2010 comes along that is. So to make sense of where is where, I am comparing the interface between the old and new Revit, hopefully pointing the way for those who are completely lost (like me).

The old Revit have both pull down menus and design bar menus to choose the commands from. The new Revit no longer had that luxury. It had only one way to access the command and that is via the ribbon interface which Autodesk claims to have re-written so that the Revit can be better prepared for future improvement and more stable blah blah blah.

This provides a road map to map the old design bar to the new ribbon tab.

Basic Bar	Home Tab
Wall, Door, Window	Build Panel
Component	Build Panel->Component Drop Down>Place a Component
Room	Room & Area Panel>Room Drop Down>Room
Roof>Roof by Footprint; Roof by Extrusion; Roof by Face; Roof Soffit	Build Panel>Roof Drop Down
Floor	Build Panel>Floor Drop Down>Floor
Grid	Datum Panel>Grid
Lines	Model Panel>Model Line
Ref Plane	Work Plane Panel>Ref Plane Drop Down>Draw Reference Plane
Dimension	Annotate Tab>Dimension Panel
Section	View Tab>Create Panel>Section
Level	Datum Panel>Level
Text	Annotate Tab>Text Panel>Text