Callout vs Duplicate Plan

[PhilvK]

I need to enlarge a section of plan from 1/8” to ¼” scale. Is it better to use a callout, or to just make a duplicate plan copy, or does it really make a difference? I like having the callout reference on the smaller scale plan, but other than that, I don’t see a difference.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@PhilvK

I would go for callouts...They are more or less the same except for the fact that Callouts are neater and look sexier on the floor plans or section 🙂

[PhilvK]

Agree!!

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Call out is more official workflow. Duplicate can bring some annotations
and visibility settings over. But you need to manually add a callout in the
parent view and reference it to the other view. If you resize the crop
region of the child view, the callout needs to be manually resized to
match. I use both.

[PhilvK]

Is it correct that column grid line settings do not carry over to callout or dependent views? I have changed a bunch of column grids to 2D and then changed their position in the master and dependent views. I probably shouldn’t have changed them, and then made my callouts. But…in any case, should these settings carry over, or once I make the duplicate view, any changes I make to column grids are then independent in each view? I am still confused on this behavior.

[RDAOU]

@PhilvK

What do you mean by "changed a bunch of grids to 2D"? You replaced it with a 2D line or just switched the extents of the grid from 3D to 2D?! (The latter can still propagate to other views, the first not it is just a 2D element of the view it is placed on)

can you you take a screenshot?

[PhilvK]

I change the setting circled below from 3D to 2D so I can drag the column bubble where I want it. The dependent view doesn’t change the same. I’m always having to adjust these so I figure I am doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

The difference between duplicate view and callout.

The callout boundary will set the crop region, and allow you to create other callouts that can reference the same view.

Duplicate views will need to be cropped manually. You can then add a callout to reference the duplicate view.

With regards to the '2D' vs 3D this is controlled by view therefore any changes to 2D grids are not reflected across views.

[RDAOU]

@PhilvK

In that case no the bubble on other views will not shift along when you adjust the 2D view specific grip (thats the blue small dot at the end of the grid line where it intersects the bubble . That is the purpose of the 2D vs 3D extents...

However, from the same view where the grind is 2D, you can still shift the bubble on other views by sliding that small circle behind the bubble (thats the Grid#s 3D Model End) that will align all the grid bubbles on other views with ur current one...Not sure if this is what you are looking for