Save 3D-View Camera Position and Zoom

[leonard.moelders]

Hey guys, 

I have following Problem:

When I save a 3D-View and reopen the project, Revit opens the view with the right camera position/orientation, but the model is zoomed to its extends and does not keep the old zoomfactor. Is there a way to save the zoom factor or tell Revit to not zooming to the models extends?

[ToanDN]

Turn on view crop and crop the 3d view.

[leonard.moelders]

Thanks, that works, but seems more like a work-around. Is there no other way? Like stopping Revit to zoom to extend automatically?

[mhiserZFHXS]

If you're calling that solution a workaround, it seems like you are going to call just about anything a workaround...

Why is that not acceptable?

[leonard.moelders]

@mhiserZFHXS : I'm not commenting on your first sentence, as it's just rude.

The reason why it's not acceptable is, that when view crop is active I can not zoom out to the extends of the model again. I would need to deactivate the view crop again or right-click and set the view crop to model extends. Furthermore panning by clicking the mouse wheel moves the cropped view and not the model. To pan the model in the cropped view I need to use the pan-tool which is not handy. 

[mhiserZFHXS]

I'm just stating facts. Seems pretty ridiculous to write off the solution to something because you think its a "workaround".

Is this a working view, or a set view? If its a working view, why does it matter if its zoomed or not when you open it? If its a set view (for a sheet or rendering), why are you moving it around so much that this becomes inconvenient?

[jpmottes]

In many parametric modeling programs the user is given the ability to save a "home" or "default" position of the model.  I work for a commercial/industrial Electrical contractor.  In our position we use the 3D view to constantly pan and zoom to different angles and positions of a linked coordination model to design various elements within the revit file.  We are not the only ones who do this and as it typically happens with a well designed software/product/tool/etc... the user base will use the software beyond the originally designed intent.  It is up to the developers to continually research user experience, troubleshoot and solve common issues.  Then create development goals and plans to implement them into future versions of the software.  When a solution does not yet exist, the product support team may offer another solution that isn't really the solution that the user was asking for.  The slang term for that is a "work-around".

Just curious, has a "Solution" been developed?  Or are we still on the work-around listed above?

[kostremEEC7J]

This isn't acceptable for me because I'm publishing my model to ACC - Build. So when field staff switches between published views, it zooms out on the model every time. It'd be nice to have an isometric 3D view zoomed in on specific model elements so then if the field staff wants to rotate and look at the model from that position so be it.

[brandon4DVVP]

It might be a 'solution'  however, it is also a work-around because it's still something that happens without having to research how to make it not do that.  Which is a huge reason revit is full of work-arounds.   They are solutions, but they are things you have to do that are not apart of the actual function.  So it makes it a work-around.  It also wastes time.

With that said.  I swear mine used to save my 3d veiws just fine.  But now it does not, and for whatever reason it chose to use a position that I'm upside-down and zoomed into a wall, so it's terribly annoying.  Revit seems to save every single other type of veiw it's style and zoom and location.  

All we can do is hope the devs can fix it instead of cropping the veiw, but then having to uncrop it when we want to use it.  Then remembering to crop it again before we close revit to save that veiw so we don't waste those 15 seconds waiting for revit to crop/uncrop.  Time adds up over time.