Crop Drafting View

[Anonymous]

Could you please point me in the right direction for cropping drafting views?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately you can't crop drafting views. 

What is it you are trying to do with the drafting view? There might be a better alternative.

[Anonymous]

alex,

part of the drafting view doesn't fit in the sheet, that's why I want to crop it..

[Ilic.Andrej]

Instead of cropping the drafting view, use the component called "Break Line". You will find that in the autodesk library (Detail Items/Div 01-General). I attached those. 

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

We don't have this feature for drafting views since there are no model elements. However, using masking regions and the breakline is the way to go for 'cropping' drafting views. 

Regards,

[barthbradley]

One of my very first (and LONG-LIVED) frustrations  with Revit: can't crop Drafting Views. Masking Regions are a workaround, but it doesn't solve for Viewport size when place on Sheet.  Arrgh! 

[ToanDN]

Copy paste the content to a plan or section then you can crop it.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why people want to crop a drafting view.  When we manually drafted our details we drew it for the space that we had available.  In CAD it was the same, it if was too large it went on another sheet where space was available or a new sheet.  Same thing applies in Revit.  This is why it is called a "drafting view".  So if you are drawing up something that needs to be cropped for multiple sheets, then duplicate and edit, or use a floor plan view for your drafting view so you can duplicate as a dependent and crop as many crop regions you want.

[loboarch]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I don't understand why people want to crop a drafting view.  When we manually drafted our details we drew it for the space that we had available.  In CAD it was the same, it if was too large it went on another sheet where space was available or a new sheet.  Same thing applies in Revit.  This is why it is called a "drafting view".  

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I have always kind of thought the same thing. I Would be interested in hearing exactly why this is needed?

[ToanDN]

When you use some large detail component families that need to be cropped. Using masking region to hide them can mask the adjacent views if they overlap.

[barthbradley]

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@loboarch wrote:
I have always kind of thought the same thing. I Would be interested in hearing exactly why this is needed?

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For us, it was only an issue when we were first transitioning from ACAD.  Bygone days.   

[Anonymous]

Then you don't use a detail item?  Or use a different scale?   They are great to a point, but if they don't fit in the box then they don't fit in the box.

A drafting view is like a wireframe view with the fill patterns ignore that fact.  That is why you can place a drafting view over a drafting view.

In order for your "crop region" to work...it cannot do the above.  This is why all my legends are  floor or reflected ceiling plans.  

@barthbradley....all my CAD details were placed directly into paperspace.  Didn't have viewports for them.

  Of course I stopped using Autocad before Annotative scale text was available.  So I got spoiled by Revit rather quickly.

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Then you don't use a detail item?  Or use a different scale?   They are great to a point, but if they don't fit in the box then they don't fit in the box.

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I have no problems adapting to any of the shortcomings one way or another.  Some people do and rightly so.

[Viveka_CD]

Looks like we lost the OP.

Hi @Anonymous

If you find posts have solved your problem, please click on 'Accept as solution' to help others with similar questions.

Thank you,

[DmetcalfGHY4B]

Hi all,

Why do we want to crop a drafting view if we have break lines to give appearance of foreshortening the drafting view?

An advantage to cropping drafting views it allows us to draft in full size and fully dimension it. Then bring it into sheets to crop and retain the drafted pieces as dimensioned. After all we cannot override dimension without getting creative in some manner.

[ToanDN]

You know you don't have to draft in drafting views.

[marcbartolucci]

A bit late for this discussion, but in my case for example, Ive got a drafting view that is very long, with equally long dimensions... as far as i know, I cant have fake dimensions, so I cant make the drawing smaller, otherwise the dimensions dont show the correct values..

[ToanDN]

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@marcbartolucci wrote:

A bit late for this discussion, but in my case for example, Ive got a drafting view that is very long, with equally long dimensions... as far as i know, I cant have fake dimensions, so I cant make the drawing smaller, otherwise the dimensions dont show the correct values..

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Of course you can have fake dimension, it can say 100 meter where the actual distance is 10 cm.

[Anonymous]

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@marcbartolucci wrote:

A bit late for this discussion, but in my case for example, Ive got a drafting view that is very long, with equally long dimensions... as far as i know, I cant have fake dimensions, so I cant make the drawing smaller, otherwise the dimensions dont show the correct values..

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Another trick is to create a dimension type that has the smallest possible text size that you can get and make the offset 0.  The dim will be as small as the dimension line.  Just place your wanted dimension as text above.

[sllana360]

I'll tell you: when i want to put a location plan that i have in a urban site plan in dwg and i need it in several scales and trimming each line each time is absurd. The more the tools, the better the program. Versatility.