Mask match lines

[Anonymous]

Hello Community!

Is there any way to mask certain area of a match line?

Please have a look at the image attached.

We would like to place a legend on a sheet but the match line override the legend and there is no way, that we know, to mask this area?

We tried using masking regions on the view and on the sheet, not even modifying the crop region of the view, the match line carry on???

Any ideas???

[chrisplyler]

I'm not entirely sure that's a matchline. And crop regions do mask matchlines. What they don't mask some other annotations, unless you turn on the Annotation crop parameter of the view.

[Anonymous]

Hi, thanks for your answer but I do not understand what you mean...

Can you please explain how we can manage to mask the matchlines?

thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi, thanks for your answer but I do not understand what you mean...

Can you please explain how we can manage to mask the matchline?

thanks

[chrisplyler]

#1. I do not think that is a true Revit matchline as created with the matchline tool. A true Revit matchline IS cropped by a view's crop region, just like all other model elements. Because a true Revit matchline is an element, not an annotation.

#2. I think what you have there is an annotation. I think somebody used a detail line to create a matchline. I think somebody drew a detail line to represent a matchline because perhaps he didn't know that Revit has a matchline tool.

#3. If you want your detail line to be cropped, turn on the view parameter called Annotation Crop, as I circled in yellow in the picture.

#4. If instead you want an actual Revit matchline, that will crop correctly, delete that detail line and use Revit's matchline tool to replace it.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, but I think you do not understand the issue, annotation crop does
not work for our problem, we would need to hide the matchline and use
detail línes instead but it is not a good solution is it???
I think it is definitely a bug and it should be revise by Autodesk.
Thanks anyway

[chrisplyler]

So you're saying that it is a real Revit matchline? What parameters are in the Properties window for it?

If it really is one, then normal behavior that I observe is that they DO get cropped right along with the model elements by a view's Crop Region. So you do indeed have a bug.

[zthomasWA7JA]

Anonymous, not really sure what Chrisplyler is talking about because I'm using the actual matchline tool from the view tab and I'm seeing the matchline extent past the crop region but stops at annotation crop which doesn't help me when I have to edit the crop view. It would be nice if the annotation crop would edit with the crop view. Have you found a solution or a way to mask the extended portions of the matchlines I dont want to see?