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Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:29:23 GMT

Is there a way for you to make Matchlines react to cropped dependent views? we are having issues getting them to cooperate across multiple views due to this not working.

We are having to "notch" out our crop regions in some views for legends and such and the annotation crop is not mimicking our cropped view causing the Matchlines to continue to show up through the Annotation crop region and hence show up through our legends etc.

Thank you for any assistance.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

joe_keogh — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:07:58 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I would expect to see a matchline parallel to the crop, as opposed to perpendicular?

As in "FOR CONTINUATION OF PLAN, REFER TO A01.02", What is your Matchline referencing?

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

ToanDN — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:21:37 GMT

Matchlines extend to the View's annotation crop. So adjust the annotation crop if needs be.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:20:31 GMT

this is just an example, we have a VERY large building, so we have matchlines going horizontally and vertically.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:22:40 GMT

we do that as well, the problem is that we cannot adjust just parts of an annotation crop. we need it to be where it is in other places.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Martijn.Pater — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:43:39 GMT

...I guess use several matchlines (or have the sketch follow the crop boundary)?

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Martijn.Pater — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:13:46 GMT

...or maybe edit the matchline and remove part of the line where its extending the cropregion?

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

ToanDN — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:30:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

we do that as well, the problem is that we cannot adjust just parts of an annotation crop. we need it to be where it is in other places.

Then you need to create multiple match lines, terminate them where you want to break, and manually hide in dependent views.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Martijn.Pater — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:01:27 GMT

hmm I was thinking something more like this... but then again I may have misunderstood the screenshot. edit: I guess the above makes more sense actually^^

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:01:59 GMT

Yeah, i know about this already, i was trying to find an easier less time consuming fix that doesn't add elements to a project that is already bogged down because of how large it is.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

ToanDN — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:14:04 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, i know about this already, i was trying to find an easier less time consuming fix that doesn't add elements to a project that is already bogged down because of how large it is.

Would have been nice if you could tell us you knew about that already so we needed not to bother you with a redundant workaround.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:18:06 GMT

Sorry

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

RDAOU — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:44:07 GMT

who is complaining about redundancy 🙂 this whole forum is full of it ... one extra redundant reply won't really matter

@Anonymous

Talking about redundancy, I'm sad to tell you that there isn't really any easier way/workaround for this ... you will have to suffer the extra clicks or if your clients are not really that picky just live with it as it is until Autodesk modifies the annotation vs view's crop behavior. There was an idea posted on the Idea forum but wasn't popular to get enough votes.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:52:16 GMT

yeah, that seems to be the case. I found a temporary workaround using a mask that is less cumbersome but still not ideal.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

ToanDN — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:03:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

yeah, that seems to be the case. I found a temporary workaround using a mask that is less cumbersome but still not ideal.

A mask? How? I thought masking regions couldn't cover annotation objects including match lines.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Martijn.Pater — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:47:12 GMT

@ToanDN (almost white) text? (...as in, I don't know what he means aswell)

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:47:23 GMT

I found it in another forum. its called an Uber mask by them, i changed the name for my own filing purposes. But i attached it.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:49:58 GMT

this one can cover annotations and the like as well. its slightly cumbersome to use, but it works for my purposes and doesn't require the tedious work of have a ton of matchlines and shortening and lengthening and hiding etc.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

ToanDN — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:43:59 GMT

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Views Not Cropping Matchlines in dependent views

Martijn.Pater — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:56:48 GMT

Annotation masking region! close enough guess I suppose^^ Quite a nice method though. You should mark your own answer as solution to this particular question...