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Ok, I have my "floor plan" split into two parts for two different sheets. (The building entirely was too large for the desired scale.) However, I still wish to show an overall dimension. I realize that doing such is not quite ideal because on each sheet you'll see only apx. half of the dimension line. Aparently revit designers forsaw this and made it imposible to have dimension lines that extend beyond crop regions show up. Is there some kind of work-around or do I really need to "line draw" the dimension line. I would hope not to do this because doing such seems to be a mockery of revits true nature and capabilities. Any help would be appreciated!
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You used to be able to do this prior to version 6.0 and i wish they'd bring that functionality back. Only method now would be to dimension whole, then use a filled region to block the unwanted section of the drawing... So the crop region would be set to show the whole building.
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Are these still the only two solutions for this issue, or has Revit addressed it in v.2010?
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i can select the dimmension and choose the "replace text with" and put in a typed dim. it will not let you use numbers to start the text. so you need to place a period first then you can put your dim text in the space. It is work around and the only reason i use a period is because it is the smallest designator i can find. So it usaually just looks like a ink spot left by the printer. i know not a very good practice but sometimes you ahve to fudge it a little.
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Oh, yeah - I know Revit won't allow a dimension-only override (unless you use the . method or this character: ” ). I was actually referring to parleyburnett's question about "split" floor plan views. My building is too large to fit on one sheet at 1/8" scale, so I had to split it across two sheets. The overall dimensions are outside the crop and annotation regions for both views, and therefore disappears. Other than detail lines or crop regions hiding half the building, is there any way to view a "partial dimension"?
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I sometimes use a detail line - Dimension to that and start my dimension over-ride with OVERALL BUILDING xxx'-xx". Any text at the beginning will work. If you are not doing dependent views, you can split the plan and use the split to hide all but the end line you dimension to...then maybe the invisible line tool on that?
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i see what your saying now. have had projects like that as well, what we did was have view with a scale large enough to fit on one sheet that had all of our overall and some larger intermittent dims and the had the as a "parent view " for other view dependent views which were set to 1/8" at a lager scale and used a matchline to split them. so our view view which i think was at 1/16th was just for overall dims like a "course view" and them broke them out in more detail in the dependent view. So to answer your question i would say no since i have not been able to it that way. the rest of my typing was for your reading plaesure and maybe some other ideas of ways to handle your situtation.
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hub, i like your way also, i will have to write that down. might be able to use that sometime.
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Thanks for the ideas, WWhub & Bimman. Guess we'll have to stick with work-arounds until Autodesk picks up this feature!
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