We’ve started rolling out Revit 2013 and among the new features is one called selection sets.¹ There are already many different ways to aggregate objects in Revit which means it is often unclear which one to use. Regardless, I welcome the new addition - perhaps this one will work where all the others have come up short.

The topic of selection in Revit reminded me of a simple tip that, in my experience, is mostly unknown but beloved by those who do know it. The tip is that Ctrl + Left Arrow reselects the previous selection. If you have ever spent considerable effort control-selecting a large number of objects only to somehow accidentally deselected them, you can breathe a sigh of relief.