Solving the Tiling Mystery

For the longest time I was completely frustrated how windows would tile.  I’d move them around to where I think they should be, then hit “WT” and it would scramble them.  It didn’t seem to make any sense to me.  With a tip from a colleague and some playing around, I’m able to control how my windows tile perfectly everytime.  Click through to see various layouts up to 7 tiles and how you can control what order they sort by.

I had two views open and a colleague mentioned, if you make a window active by selecting it and then tile your windows (WT), the active window always moves to the left.  In the case of my example below, it will move to the #1 position.

2 Views Tiled

That’s great I thought.  A few days later it occured to me, I rarely just have two windows open.  So what happens when you have more than 2?  With some fumbling around I managed to figure out the views are laid out based on which order you pick them.

To get the right order you have to work backwards, so if you have 5 panes, you start with picking for the 5th position and work backwards – 4, 3, 2, then 1.  However, Revit places the panes in ascending order – meaning the views get placed starting at 1 and goes to 5.  That means I can change the window order of 1-3 without having to pick views 4 and 5.

Below are layouts up to 7 panes for reference.

3 Views Tiled

4 Views Tiled

5 Views Tiled

6 Views Tiled

7 Views Tiled