

Any action you may take based on the information provided is strictly at your own risk, and the author(s) will not be liable for any losses and damages in connection with the use of the content. As the scope box is what controls it in 3d.

All information is provided as-is with no warranty whatsoever. The opinions and views expressed in the content are those of the author and not the author's employer or any other person or entity. Autodesk, AutoCAD, DWG, the DWG logo, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and other countries. You need to figure out the exact size and orientation from those twelve lines, and then decide how they should determine the view section box. Autodesk screen shots reprinted courtesy of Autodesk, Inc. Exploring the scope box geometry in RevitLookup, you can see that it consists of exactly twelve lines, the edges of the scope box parallelepiped itself. This website is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Autodesk. Camara (All Rights Reserved), unless otherwise noted. Content is Copyright ©2013-2023 by Lionel J.This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 23:16.Not sure why it took Autodesk so long to get here but I’m happy that the time has finally arrived. This becomes extremely difficult to manage when your project has over 20 scope boxes. Revit doesn't have a native 'Scope Box' Manager to show you all the Scope Boxes in the model, how they are named, or which workset they are on. The fun part on all of this is remembering that you now have odd shaped viewports in Revit. One of the hardest elements to manage are Scope Boxes. When using this tool I also like to use the Offset option, this way I can get a small offset with the border from the original edge. When using this feature on interior elevations don’t forget to use the Pick Lines tool to help trace the existing edges. 11.6 Scope box : When you create grid lines in one plan view it shows in all associated views, This tool is used to control.

On the Options Bar, enter a name and specify a height for the scope box, if desired. Hope that’s useful, Mark ScopeBoxCopyLink.dyn (30. In a plan view, click View tab Create panel (Scope Box). Here’s a graph (that builds on everyoneelse’s work) to duplicate and land the scope box where it should go. This has always been a limitation in Revit but now you can very easily go up around items to crop the interior elevation exactly how you want to view it. Mostly I want to copy the scope box to coordinate between files, so I do think it is useful to have a Dynamo solution. In this example I’m using the Callout tool and using the Polygon trick to create the enlarged plan view.ĭon’t forget to use this tool on your Interior Elevations.

Notice the Arc or Circle tool is not available but you can use multiple line segments or better yet use the Polygon tool and set the number of sides to 36 to create the round shape. Draw the boundary of the scope box by clicking in the upper left-hand corner to the lower right-hand corner. Once you select this it will go into the normal Draw Panel and you can create the boundary to your liking. Go to View Tab > Create panel > Scope box. Once you have done this now select the Crop Region and notice the Ribbon, you now have Edit Crop Region. To start using this feature it is not hard, in one of your plan views or maybe one of your elevation views you just need to turn ON your Crop Region that is on your Status Bar. Have all been brain washed for so long on how we couldn’t do this before in Is clients are forgetting about this feature. In a plan view, click View tabCreate panel(Scope Box). We now have the ability to do odd shaped viewports, ironically what I’m finding The Scope Box object is a 3D Element that defines a three-dimensional box that you can then use to set the Extents of your Datum Elements or your View Extents. People have wanted for years but we never had until the 2014 release. Select the scope box, and on the Properties palette, enter a value for the Name property. Tip:You can also change the name of the scope box after creating it. In this click saver I want to talk about a new feature in Revit that quite a few In a plan view, click View tabCreate panel(Scope Box).
