topic Re: Crop a Drafting View in Revit Architecture Forum

Crop a Drafting View

zeulrick — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:21:44 GMT

Anyone know how to crop a Drafting View.

I've got an Image that I want as a drafting view so that it can be referenced. I want to crop the image. Should I just crop it in separate software?

Re: Crop a Drafting View

_Vijay — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:28:33 GMT

wich version of Revit you are using?

Re: Crop a Drafting View

_Vijay — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:37:59 GMT

you cannot crop inside Revit but you can resize. hope it will help you.

Re: Crop a Drafting View

zeulrick — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:30:10 GMT

2021

Re: Crop a Drafting View

ToanDN — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:00:02 GMT

Place it in a non drafting view then ypu can crop it.

Re: Crop a Drafting View

barthbradley — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:56:02 GMT

How about cropping it on the sheet using a Masking Region. Yes, an MR can be placed on a sheet. It's done via an old and simple gypsy trick. No eye of newt needed. Want me to reveal how?

Re: Crop a Drafting View

zeulrick — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:27:10 GMT

The point is to have it in a drafting view so that it can be referenced, and automatically titled, numbered. I can mask it in the Drafting View but than the extents of the view are too big when placing on the sheet. I will just crop it in the most advanced piece of software ever. Paint

Re: Crop a Drafting View

ToanDN — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 13:21:30 GMT

You can reference a non-drafting view.

Re: Crop a Drafting View

barthbradley — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:53:52 GMT

@zeulrick wrote:
The point is to have it in a drafting view so that it can be referenced, and automatically titled, numbered. I can mask it in the Drafting View but than the extents of the view are too big when placing on the sheet. I will just crop it in the most advanced piece of software ever. Paint

Understood. You'll need to resize it outside of Revit then.

P.S. Funny comment: "most advanced piece of software ever. Paint." No kidding.

Re: Crop a Drafting View

ToanDN — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:56:25 GMT

In case you are not clear what a non drafting view is, create a floor plan, set model display to none, place tge image, crop.

Re: Crop a Drafting View

Kisha_Arch22 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:02:48 GMT

but.... if the image, is a section but you've placed it on a floor plan, then you can't reference it. is there a work around?

Re: Crop a Drafting View

raffyinfra — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:12:37 GMT

YES PLEASEEEEE

Re: Crop a Drafting View

Mike_Sanderson — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:18:04 GMT

It seems you can crop a drafting view. It may be a bug more than a feature, but it works.

I only just stumbled across it, so have not put it to actual use.

Activate drafting view.
Use the keyboard shortcut for "Show (Hide) Crop Region" Set up as "CV" for me.
Deactivate the view.
Now click on the view and there is a "Size Crop" button in the ribbon.
The crop size is first set to the extents of whatever is in the view. The annotation crop settings don't appear to do anything.
When you resize the crop boundary, it resizes from the center. There is no visible boundary, you can only find it by drawing a line that extends beyond the boundary.
Detail items get cropped but text does not.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Drafting-Views-placed-on-Revit-sheets-have-large-crop-boundaries.html