Graphic Overrides for interior elevation crop regions

[Sahay_R]

It's on the Ideas Forum, also on the Dynamo Forums. Has anyone devised a hack for this that we don't know about yet? Please?

[barthbradley]

@Sahay_R: What do you mean? Change the lineweight of the crop boundary (e.g. Select, Right-Click, Override...)? 

[Sahay_R]

A better alternative to that, @barthbradley. Something that doesn't involve API or Dynamo, which do not give enough control....

[barthbradley]

Sorry @Sahay_R, but I'm still not understanding. What is it that Dynamo does that cannot be done otherwise? 

[Sahay_R]

Curiosity, @barthbradley. Something that can be done prior to the masses getting educated.

[Anonymous]

I think it has to do with Dynamo being able to override the crop regions to all specified internal elevations at once in seconds. The manual way is to select them one by one to override.

I don't know of another way to do this on mass.
@Sahay_R, how come you prefer not use Dynamo? Once the script is written, all you have to do is use the dynamo player. Is there some other control you are looking for?

[Sahay_R]

@Anonymous for me on my own - yes, Dynamo works. For the organization - it's gonna be a struggle....

[FAIR59 · Accepted solution]

Without using API or Dynamo, the best solution would be to use a SelectionSet for the crop regions of the interior elevations.

You'd have to add the crop regions manually to the selectionset ( not foolproof ), then you can use a filter / view template to override the lines.

[kaylinnn]

Hi there! 

A little late to this convo, but I also was looking for a better solution to Dynamo and I think I found a workaround. In Revit 2023 you can right-click on the crop region and "Select all instances in entire project". Then you can right-click again and override graphics in view to the line weight/style you want. 

I think this would still require a little cleanup if you want the line weights to show in one view type but not others. For example, we show crop region line weights in elevation but hide crop regions on enlarged plans. This could be solved by turning the crop regions off in the enlarged plan view templates though. Hope that helps! 

[amartinCMDVK]

Also late, but this one has been a problem for over a decade.  Why do we have to override or use add-ins?  Crop lines should be in the annotation graphics dialogue or part of object styles.  Currently we add a filled region "frame" to every single  interior elevation and drag all four edges of each elevation just to get a clean borderline.

[diasSUMWQ]

This would be a perfect solution, but it's not working for me. I can select all the interior crop regions but when I override the lines it only changes the first one I selected. 😞

I tried saving the selection and it still doesn't work. I guess I'll have to figure it out in Dynamo...