topic Re: Cannot modify crop region in Revit Architecture Forum

Cannot modify crop region

Angayo — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:51:12 GMT

Here is a view of which I would like to modify the crop region :

I could give a list of help articles that don’t work, but there is clearly something wrong with the view : the crop handles are missing and the ‘Do Not Crop View’ button is greyed out.

How can I make it so that the crop region is modifiable ?

Re: Cannot modify crop region

ToanDN — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:57:51 GMT

The View is associated with a Scope Box.

You can either change the Scope Box to None, or open an overall floor plan where you see the Scope Box and resize it.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

Angayo — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:19:15 GMT

OK, thank you. That appears to be it : Scope Box needs to be set to none.

I a follow-up question : Why does the Help not mention that ? All those help articles don’t even mention scope boxes.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

dc — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:53:19 GMT

The crop region can also be frozen by being pinned.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:37:50 GMT

And what do you do when for some reason you can't unpin it? This is the nightmare of Revit- there is almost no 'simple' issue which does not lead to going down some endless rabbit hole of permutations. It's as if the developers have no experience actually working in day-to-day architecture practice.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

chrismjr — Fri, 14 May 2021 23:24:42 GMT

I was struggling to figure out why the viewports were cropped as well. I work very far downstream from the main Revit modelers and browsing Help & Tutorials didn't manage to touch on the scope box part, at all. Which can be quite difficult in a complicated and complete model. Also the performance of Revit makes it very bad for experimentation, because each click of a command takes ages to complete.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

juri.pelkonen — Fri, 21 May 2021 15:14:39 GMT

Unfortunately this tip was useless. The "Scope Box" option is greyed out, so not editable. And it's set to "None"

Re: Cannot modify crop region

dc — Fri, 21 May 2021 15:26:42 GMT

Another possible block is working in a Design Option. You have to be in Model space to affect formatting.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

ddesouzaDYVWD — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:31:25 GMT

You cannot disable a crop view once it is on a sheet.

If you remove from the sheet and go to the view, then you can disable it.

You have to have a crop view once the view is placed on a sheet.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

ToanDN — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:33:28 GMT

@ddesouzaDYVWD wrote:

You cannot edit a crop view once it is on a sheet.

If you remove from the sheet and go to the view, then you can edit it.

You have to have a crop view once the view is placed on a sheet.

No you don't have to remove a view from the sheet in order to resize its crop region. I did not response to @Angayo because I had no appetite to his way of questioning.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

donaDQ6RQ — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 19:05:03 GMT

When design options are used, I have discovered that a view cannot be cropped unless you are in the Main Model option.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

trevoraG7RTB — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:21:03 GMT

Easy fix if you know where to go... Click on the house '3D View' and you can edit the scope box from there.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

shwang5Q36V — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:31:52 GMT

thanks it works

Re: Cannot modify crop region

anupallavi_rp — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:37:34 GMT

Thanks so much @ToanDN !

Re: Cannot modify crop region

serhii_k — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:17:58 GMT

I used Reset Crop and it helped

Re: Cannot modify crop region

enbmp — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:10:04 GMT

@ Autodesk - consider adding to the following Support article, including DC's commentary on design options.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Crop-View-greyed-out-in-Revit.html

@dc - thanks for the comment, this saved me a lot of time troubleshooting.

Re: Cannot modify crop region

ezymberiYTT5Z — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:36:58 GMT

this helped - tried everything no scope box, no design option was applied
Thank you 🙂

Re: Cannot modify crop region

TParkinsonD3XDM — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:49:25 GMT

Still don't know what a scope box is