Assuming you have an understanding of the basics of drafting, the View Range Dailog is how you control where the knife cuts the model to see the view and how much of the view it allows you to see. The Help available on this feature is pretty thorough, try there also for more information. Someone please correct me if I'm not explaining this right... I haven't actually bothered to check the manual to make sure this is correct. The first thing you do , is make sure you are actually using a reflected ceilling plan view. This should show up under the 'Ceiling Plans' branch in the project explorer. If you are not in a Ceiling Plan view, you will not be able to look up... to my knowledge. To create a new Ceilling Plan view, use View > Ceiling Plan The easiest parameter, Cut, is essentially how far above the floor level that the view is on, does the knife cut the model. Using RCP examples, if you want to see the header of the doors in the view, you will want your cut to be lower than the door height. Normally you would select the level (in this case 'Second Level' or whatever you named it) but with RCP views, the cut plane level is not selectable. An offset of 6'-0" should be fine. This means that the knife cuts, 6'-0" above the second level reference. Basically, you can see anything between the Top and Bottom clip planes. The view depth option gives you additional view beyond the top or bottom clip planes (depending on the view. I highly recommend pulling out the ol' 'F1' user's manual and reading up on this as it is a great source on the topic. HTH
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