
Why though? Well sit down, pour yourself a drink, grab some popcorn and let me tell you about a story of terrible coordination. Objects such as pits, lights, air terminals. Where they should never be used are things where the symbol is normally shown at actual object size, and is in fact a detail item, not an annotation symbol. Just tick the box! But they have a time and place usually for power and data outlets and the like. Need a power outlet on a wall, in a floor box or on the ceiling? No need for multiple families or content creation trickery! The brilliance of this option is that regardless of the rotation of your family, the symbol will display correctly. Just use the provided built in detail level controls in your families. Unfortunately there is no way to be nice or beat around the bush about this one. Take this example below, how will a contractor on site be able to tell what this even is once printed as a hard copy? If you have the symbol on, both the 3D and 2D content is visible all the time which in turn results in your graphical display on drawing to get a bit weird. Maybe the more frustrating thing about this particular example is that the 3D components of the family are not controlled at various detail levels either.
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This is painful for not only the the end user to work with, but could you imagine giving a model configured this way to an architect and then explaining to them if they need to coordinate on ceiling equipment they need to turn off a series of instance parameters to do so? Revit: Understanding Model and Annotation Crop Regions Generally at fine mode the symbol would be switched off, coarse and medium you should follow your company standards.Īs the detail level of the view changes, the visibility of the symbol follows suit. Okay, thanks.One of the doozies though always seems to be the use of nested annotations and for whatever reason, these weird and wonderful annotation solutions always seem to be in electrical families. Hi Dave, No, as you have deduced the Annotation Crops are purely rectangular- irrespective of the shape of the primary Model Crop region. Skip to content When you are creating your model views in Revit, there will many situations where you need to limit the extent of a particular view. No, as you have deduced the Annotation Crops are purely rectangular- irrespective of the shape of the primary Model Crop region. Are you able to make the annotation polygonal? There only seems to be the option for a rectangle annotation crop on an odd shaped crop or plan region. So by using a combination of the Model Crop Region and Annotation Crop Region we can tailor our views to show exactly what we need. The minimum size you can shrink it to is just slightly larger than the Model Annotation Crop Region.

The outer dashed boundary is the Annotation Crop Region. To do so, ensure that there are no elements selected in the open view- this will then display the properties of the view itself in the Properties Palette.Īs soon as I do this, I now see the boundary of a second Crop Region in my view…. If I now turn on the cropping effect of our Crop Region…. Note how the Tags themselves lie outside of the Crop Region boundary. I will turn off the Cropping effect, but leave the Crop Region visible- ie we can still see the boundary of the Crop Region, but it is not now currently cropping the view…. But did you known that that there are actually two different Crop Regions in Revit? But there is also another one called the Annotation Crop Region.

You simply use the control grips to resize the boundary to the area you need. They enable you to crop your view to just show that parts you are interested in….

When you are creating your model views in Revit, there will many situations where you need to limit the extent of a particular view.įor example, in a Floor Plan view, you may wish to just focus in on a single room.
