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How to Clip an AutoCAD file view inside Revit

roquealfonso
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How to Clip an AutoCAD file view inside Revit

roquealfonso
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How can I clip or crop view, only for the AutoCAD file I have imported? Similar to how you can do it in AutoCAD when you insert an Xref. 

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SteveKStafford
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A masking region with <Invisible Lines> for the boundary might suffice.


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hmunsell
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unfortunately not. Revit does not nave a XClip tool like Autocad does. there are some workarounds out there, but no tool in Revit i know of.

 

you can try making 2 Views, one with only a cropped DWG link and the other with the modeled content. place them both on the same sheet and line them up.

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Anonymous
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Nope. It shows the full file. You cannot Xref your drawing to a second Cad file where it is cropped because revit will ignore the cropped boundary and reveal the entire dwg.

cmyersDLKTU
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Do you know of anyway to clip or crop it? Above they mention a workaround but not what the workaround is.

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hmunsell
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Only work around I know is what I mentioned 😁 .

"...making 2 Views, one with only a cropped DWG link and the other with the modeled content. place them both on the same sheet and line them up."

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syman2000
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Revit don't have the ability to clip AutoCAD.  However it will clip portion of the DWG if you use export function. First you crop using floor plan crop view. 

 

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Then export that cropped plan as DWG. When you relink, the drawing will cropped.

 

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LuisZJUN5
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Revit Can't do it, I wBlock the portion and then import in to Revit.
a good way is to create a REVIT REPOSITORY FILE
and then import using "insert from file..."

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coliverPR9RA
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It's insane that Revit includes things like (for now) useless generative AI design optionality, yet won't implement this a basic functionality like clipping a linked file. It's not sexy but there are posts going back to 2012 and beyond wondering about this same feature. 

hmunsell
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Has this been logged in the Revit Ideas Forum? if not, might be a good place to start and get support and get Revit's attention on the issue. 

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/idb-p/302

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RSomppi
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@coliverPR9RA wrote:

yet won't implement this a basic functionality


It seems that it isn't possible. What seems basic/simple may not be even be possible in Revit.

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