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Warchitect

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I have a image drawing underlayed for an office plan tracing, and I want to use a selection window on a small column so I can move it, but when I try to draw a section window, it just grabs the jpeg underlay...How can I get Revit to ignore the image and just make selections in the plan view.

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WWHub

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Try using a crossing and then your filter.

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Warchitect

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thats just it. the initial click to start a window just selects the scanned plan image first...cant even begin a selection window.

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itsmyalterego

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Image underlays are a serious pain in the curse.  It's always the first selection.  Whenever I work with an underlay, there's a lot of hiding/unhiding going on.

It'd work a lot better if an image could only be selected by the border.

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Warchitect

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or made to be "unselectable" in view whils still being visible..

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jlights

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Try putting the image on its own workset and move the image to Design Option 1. That's what we do with our links. This makes them unselectabe- you have to uncheck "exclude options" next to the design options drop-down on the bottom to select it. I'm not sure if that will work for an image file, but it's worth a try.

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