Splitting a detail callout into pieces and compressing the detail.

[TheMattatonAP]

Is it possible to split a detail callout/view into its most relevant parts, apply break lines, and compress it into a smaller drawing? I'm relatively new to Revit. I think you can do this with wall sections by splitting the crop region, but I can't figure out how to do it with detail views.

I have a long L-shaped area that I want to callout, but I don't need to show every inch of it, just the ends and the corner. For now I have just drawn it in 2D, but I'd like to do it the "right way."

The OP on this post is doing what I want to do, I just can't figure out how he did that:

https://www.revitforum.org/architecture-general-revit-questions/2700-callout-how-move-split-crop-reg...

Thanks!

Matt

[ToanDN]

You can split a plan/section/elevation called out view by click on the break symbol of the view, then stretch the boundaries and move them closer.

You can edit the callout shape.

[TheMattatonAP]

But you can't split it into parts, nor do I want to. I want one large callout on the plan and to split the detail into pieces and move the pieces together so it doesn't take up space needlessly.

I added this to my original post, but this guy is doing it, I just don't know how. https://www.revitforum.org/architecture-general-revit-questions/2700-callout-how-move-split-crop-reg...

[TheMattatonAP]

Basic example. I want the callout to look like the first image, but I only want to show the circled areas in the second image and then move those portions together. Seems like a pretty basic thing we've done on architectural drawings for 100 years. If Revit doesn't have this ability...well...

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You can split a view in one direction, not two.  So, you can two of the three as one view splitted, the third one needs to be a separate view.  You can still place all three on one sheet, arrange them, and use one title.

See screencast in a few minutes  for splitting a large view into two smaller parts:

[TheMattatonAP]

Thanks, ToanDN. That's a good point about not being able to split it in two directions. Hadn't thought of that.

Soooo...is that a new 2019 feature? I am using 2018 and I cannot split a crop region of a detail view/callout, only a floor plan callout. I don't get the "zigzag" icons on the crop region.

[TheMattatonAP · Accepted solution]

Nevermind. My problem was I was using a sketched callout and not a rectangle. The rectangle lets me split the crop region just fine.

I'll have to do a rectangle callout, hide it in the view, and then do a sketched callout that references the rectangle callout. 😄

Thanks!