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rastamanCP

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Hi all,

Anyone know of a way to change the line weight of a crop region? We are printing with crop regions visible on lots of sheets, and would love to be able to maniputlate the stantard lineweight. The goal is to make them thicker, since by default they are more or less thin-lines.

Thanks!

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mhans

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Automatically, no. Manually, yes. Go to you sheet, select the viewport and override graphics in view, select element and adjust projection line weight. I am using RAC2010

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thetabest

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only way i know also.  know you cant in view template, match type, even as a selecte group, this is from memory, but i think you have to select each one.  i had a workaround though, which was lots faster. i created a detail component which acted as a its own crop box...  .  you create view, over extend its crop region, then insert crop detail component into view, size as desired then also if you really want to constrain to say walls of an enlarged plan, you can lock the different edges to components within the view.  an example of where i used this were the some 100 or so interior elevations we created for one project..

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rastamanCP

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Thanks guys, good advice all around, although I do tend to think that dropping-in and resizing a detail component in each view would be equallly as time consuming as just overriding each crop regions graphics. FYI, we're doing a massive number of interior elevations and are trying to find a simple, automatic way to show the heavy lineweight around each view. In a perfect world, perhaps we would be able to create a new subcatagory in the project object styles, select the desired lineweight and assign all the crop regions to that subcatagory. Or, if the crop regions were editable in the Visibility/Graphics Overrides we could modify the lineweights there and create a view tempelate from that. Maybe furture imporovements to the software?

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thetabest

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Part of the reason that we used a detail component was because of my Architect's style, he prefers the "Frame" to include anything we are slicing through, thus we had the need for casework to show up.  And yes, it does seem tedious, but once you get into the swing of it, you can copy/paste and real quickly get them out there.  Less than ideal yes, but a work around never the less.  If all you need for the shape is a box, then overriding each one will be the quickest option, I recommend changing the color too... Just so that it is obvious that it has been done, this way you can see in revit if a viewport has been overriden or not. 

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rastamanCP

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Great advice, thanks for the feedback!

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raja15

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Just wondering if there's been any progress on this issue in current revit versions ?

I'm using Revit 2015 & would also like to be able to change the lineweight of crop regions in internal elevations.

I've looked in VG and Object Styles but can't find anything thus far.

Thanks in advance

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rastamanCP

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Still no fix to this that I'm aware of. You can place the view on a sheet and control the crop region lineweight by manual override, which is a good solution for interior elevations. However, being able to control crop region lineweight by view template is still not possible 

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raja15

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That's what I was afraid to hear.

Thanks for your feedback

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Schiette

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I've come across this issue today. Looks like there's still no way to preset it as of 2018.

There's a revit idea on it here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/crop-region-line-styles/idi-p/6330724

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