Revit Views with Scope boxes location locked on Sheet????

[jveron]

Hi all,

Quick question, can Views using scope boxes be locked to a sheet location?

Meaning if I have 1 scope box that moves or I am switching between multiple Scope boxes, is there a way for the view and scope box to stay on the sheet (within the title block).
Eg. I have a huge building with multiple zones, I have created one zone with Scope box A, I then duplicate sheet with views and create a new view. If I then select that view and change to Scope box B, it now is off the sheet and either needs to be re-positioned or re-inserted. Is their any way to fix the geometric centre or any part of the view the a sheet?
It would make drawing creation super fast with the use of scope boxes.
Also if scope boxes move and you don't manually check all you plans you may have drawings with view outside of your title block.
Thanks in advance.

[RSomppi]

Quick answer:

No. Automatic viewport alignment is not a thing, yet.

[jveron]

Was hoping someone had a work around for it. As I am using this for Revit templates....
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[SteveKStafford]

Are you familiar with sheet's Guide Grids? You can use them to mark specific locations on a sheet that can be used to place views consistently. If you have four partial plans create four scope boxes and four guide grid types. Then on the sheet for Part A turn on Part A's guide grid. I reduce the scope of the guide grid so it has large squares (like 4-6 inches) and reduce the extent so I can see just one intersection of the grid. Either move the plan view to align with the guide grid intersection or vice versa and move them together so they fit on the sheet the way you require. Repeat for the other partial views and guide grids. Now any additional partial view sheets can be assigned to the same guide grid and views can be aligned to the guide grid intersection. It doesn't automatically keep views inside the sheet but it helps getting views where you want them and helps ensure you can tell if they've shifted.

[jveron]

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply. Yeah I use this no problem when aligning my sheets. But if you change your scope box that is relating to that view then it scoots off the page. I may be in dreamland hoping the view could be like an open window similar to AutoCAD viewports, where you can change the viewport to a saved view and it doesn't effect the paperspace drawing layout.
Maybe it is as simple as being able to lock the revit view to the grid guide.

[Sleepingfish_Kuo]

I'm confusing that why Revit's default setting of crop region, anno crop and scope box is cutting the annotations outside, not inside.

I can't easily setting the region of viewports by crop box or putting the titles of viewports all at the same place of sheet.

[RSomppi]

Nothing simple like that available. It's a manual process. 

[Kaveh_Eslami1]

Hello, 

Scope Box extents - better control
Please, please can we have better control over scope box extents? Once created a scope box has no edit sketch ability and won't respond to the align command. Basically you have nothing but very inaccurate dragging of control points with NO snapping.

We really need much better control. Even just being able to use align the top, bottom & sides of a scope box would give us the control we need.
Is it really not possible to align two Scope Boxes together?

Thanks.

[RSomppi]

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@Kaveh_Eslami1 wrote:

Is it really not possible to align two Scope Boxes together?

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I prefer to have some overlap between adjacent scope boxes but no, it is n ot possible.

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@Kaveh_Eslami1 wrote:

Please, please can we have better control over scope box extents?

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Are you aware of the Ideas forum? That's a place where Autodesk looks for new feature requests.

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