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Zoom to Selection

Zooming to a selected object would aid in the efficiency of coordinating. I've read the rebuttal of using Manage/Select By ID...but this is not a useful work flow it's a work for not having Zoom-To-Selection in Revit it is a work around. Manage/Select By ID is awesome across workflows from Navis back to Revit etc.. WTBS when you select an object in a heavily coordinated model and then choose the Section Box Command...GOD MODE happens and you see everything and nothing at the same time. This work flow requires you to the manually zoom into your selection. Why? It's such a waste of time to constantly be zooming in to your selection, when you're neck deep in coordinating and modeling...Zoom Selected is IN Navisworks Manage. It works as it should...Revit needs this functionality.Zoom_to_Select_3_001.png

 

 

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Advisor
Advisor

I'm with you that it should be a built in function.

But in the meantime: There's an app for that.

Thread discussiing it here on RFO

https://www.revitforum.org/third-party-add-ins-api-r-d/33523-zoom-awesome-returns.html

 

 

Advocate
Advocate

Hi!

Giving this a bump... simple thing to implement, but effective! I miss it, too!

Btw., "Zoom to awesome" does not work in Revit 2018 and 2019.

Please, thanks!

 

Explorer
Explorer

Hi Guys,

I just created one add-in for Revit 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 called Zoom to Selection which should do the job. 


@mwilliams wrote:

Zooming to a selected object would aid in the efficiency of coordinating. I've read the rebuttal of using Manage/Select By ID...but this is not a useful work flow it's a work for not having Zoom-To-Selection in Revit it is a work around. Manage/Select By ID is awesome across workflows from Navis back to Revit etc.. WTBS when you select an object in a heavily coordinated model and then choose the Section Box Command...GOD MODE happens and you see everything and nothing at the same time. This work flow requires you to the manually zoom into your selection. Why? It's such a waste of time to constantly be zooming in to your selection, when you're neck deep in coordinating and modeling...Zoom Selected is IN Navisworks Manage. It works as it should...Revit needs this functionality.Zoom_to_Select_3_001.png

 

 



@mwilliams wrote:

Zooming to a selected object would aid in the efficiency of coordinating. I've read the rebuttal of using Manage/Select By ID...but this is not a useful work flow it's a work for not having Zoom-To-Selection in Revit it is a work around. Manage/Select By ID is awesome across workflows from Navis back to Revit etc.. WTBS when you select an object in a heavily coordinated model and then choose the Section Box Command...GOD MODE happens and you see everything and nothing at the same time. This work flow requires you to the manually zoom into your selection. Why? It's such a waste of time to constantly be zooming in to your selection, when you're neck deep in coordinating and modeling...Zoom Selected is IN Navisworks Manage. It works as it should...Revit needs this functionality.Zoom_to_Select_3_001.png

 

 


 

Anonymous

Yes please. Seconding this one with both hands.

Anonymous

Ditto x 1000000. Such a simple feature that makes workflows so much more efficient. While I appreciate the work of kind strangers who have developed add-ins, that route doesn't really work when, for instance in my case, it's a large firm and to download add-ins requires you to submit a work ticket... 

Contributor
Contributor

Revit has "zoom region" and "zoom to fit"; why doesn't it have "zoom to selection"? This would make many workflows in Revit much more efficient. Please add this functionality soon!

Anonymous
yeah what the hell revit

Yet another feature that should have been standard upon release and is yet to even be tought of even 4 years after being suggested.

Collaborator
Collaborator

Zoom to selection does exist: select something and click on the cube.

It works, but there is no keyboard shortcut and it may change the view orientation.

 

It does exist also in the APIs: UIDocument.ShowElements().

Making it an out-of-the-box command would be very easy.

 

I made my own command on my own add-in, and I can easily define a shortcut for it, but this is such a basic feature that should be part of the out-of-the-box toolset.

 

Upvoting this idea.

Contributor
Contributor
 
 do you mind sharing the Code? I'm stuck in the writing of such command... so far, not so good...