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Not sure why but Revit doesn't have crop regions for drafting views.
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I keep running into problems with this. Really wish revit would update the new version to do this.
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? ? ? This doesn't make sense. You are talking about a drafting view. What is there to crop? There is no model elements. ...... oh - did you mean you drew something too far (don't do that) ....or you have an imported detail element that you don't want to show all of. That's what masking regions and the breakline masking region is used for.
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I agree with the first 2 posts. WWHub is correct to point out that masking regions can be used to "mask" unwanted portions of detail components in drafting views. However, this has the undesirable side-effect of creating a drafting view with a over-sized (potentially vastly over-sized) pick box - ie the area that becomes highlighted when you roll over the view on a sheet. This becomes annoying while trying to select the correct view. Not to mention the messiness that comes along with excessive masking regions in a view. It's definitely not un-workable, but seems to me a crop region tool for drafting views would be quite beneficial.
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carlos, Was there a purpose to your post?
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I'm sorry I don't know what happened to the text in previous post. I think the logical solution would be the crop view. The hide option didn't work for me because it didn't conceal the text and I had to make a second version of same detail after erasing what was not needed. Since this is a standard detail probably used in various projects, I wouldn't want to have several versions of the same detail
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Another reason that crop region for drafting views is that importing CAD files can create strange pick regions, as bavery99 pointed out. Really its a legitimate wishlist item.
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You really should not import large DWG's and mask (or crop region them if it was available). That would just overload the model. Just clean up the CAD - better yet, revitize it, especially legacy details that you might use again.
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Not a large DWG. I've converted everything to Revit lines, and Revit text styles, and the view is still quite large. Again, a crop region would be helpful. This is a wishlist forum.
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Again, there is no need for a crop region.
For those folks that have not figured this out, use a model view, it has a crop region. If you then insist on having this as a drafting detail, use your "Freeze Drawing" add-in under the extensions manager. That will crate a DWG of the cropped view and will import it into a new drafting view. Now just delete your full import and model view. DONE!
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The crop feature in drafting view is on my wishlist because I use detail components to help create my drafting views. Without a crop view, the length of the compnent from the detail library dictates the size of my drawing. This makes things like door jamb details larger than they really need to be unless I go back and re-draw everything on the screen with detail lines and regions. A crop feature would be a timesaver for me.
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Did you read my post just above yours? There are two solutions there.
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I read it.
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...and another reason for crop region for a drafting view - detail components.
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