ViewSheet BoundingBox

ViewSheet BoundingBox

aaron_rumple
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ViewSheet BoundingBox

aaron_rumple
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All sheet views seem to have the same bounding box - regardless of titlebloc, etc.

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I've got one renegade sheet view that somehow has a different BoundingBox min-max. And as such - a zoom extents zooms to the bounding box not the titlebock on the sheet. I've tried to set the BoundingBox to new values - back to the defaults with no luck.

 

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If you duplicate the sheet view, the duplicate has the "bad" bounding box. If you make a new sheet - it works as expected. The file has been audited. (Yes, it can be "fixed" by deleting the sheet and replacing with new. But wonder what is going on under the hood.

 

 

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RPTHOMAS108
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A 3D BoundingBox is an illogical thing to have for a 2D view but it is inherited from element (a ReadOnly property).

 

I tested with a <None> template in Revit 2023 by creating new sheet and yes the bounding box always seems to have Z values of -0.1 and -1000 ft. So I'm guessing it is created that way by the application and the ones that don't conform were probably created by a different version of the application or have come to be altered some other way (insertion of cad links perhaps).

 

The 'zoom extents' issue is usually related to having tiny geometry far away. The extents are 100ft in the XY directions so why doesn't it zoom extents that making your title block a tiny dot on a 'standard' sheet (could only be the centre not the scale perhaps)? I've noticed some views placed on a sheet affect the title block print alignment due to their crops etc. even though there are no objects in that seemingly randomly extended area. It is probably a case of lack of update.

 

 

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aaron_rumple
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Indeed, "Why does the zoom extents act differently with this sheet than others?" That is the crux of my question.

 

I agree that this is all probably set by the application, but how did this one view get set differently? And how to prevent it in the future?

 

There are no views or other elements in the sheet. It doesn't matter what titleblock is placed in the view.  Even deleting the titleblock itself has no effect on the zoom extents. That's all been inspected in detail. The zoom extents is clearly using the bounds of the min max values set by the sheets bounding box. That can be verified by the underlying data.

 

Other views always zoom to whatever titleblock is placed in the sheet view. Regardless of the sheet placement relative to ,0. (as expected)

 

As noted, if the sheet is duplicated. The problem is duplicated.

 

Here's a screen shot with the titlebloc moved away zoom 0,0 and a zoom extent.

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