Crop a Drafting View

[zeulrick]

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?

[_Vijay]

wich version of Revit you are using?

[_Vijay]

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

[zeulrick]

2021

[ToanDN]

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

[barthbradley]

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?  

[zeulrick]

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

[ToanDN]

You can reference a non-drafting view.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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@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

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

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

[ToanDN]

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.

[Kisha_Arch22]

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?

[raffyinfra]

YES PLEASEEEEE

[Mike_Sanderson]

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.

1. Activate drafting view.
2. Use the keyboard shortcut for "Show (Hide) Crop Region" Set up as "CV" for me.
3. Deactivate the view.
4. Now click on the view and there is a "Size Crop" button in the ribbon.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Detail items get cropped but text does not.

 

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