Viewport boundary is too large

[micah]

Hello,

I am working on Revit and I have 2 cropped views on one sheet placed besides each other. But somehow the viewport of both the views are too large. Whenever I try to select the left view, the viewport of right overlaps and makes it hard to select and work. 

Can someone please help solve this issue? 

Please refer to the attached image for better understanding. 

[barthbradley]

It's no biggie, really. But if it's bugging you, then resize it. That's no biggie too. 

[ennujozlagam]

@micah hello, do you have any  link cad in the views, it could be the reason? try to remove and see if helps. thanks

[chrisplyler]

When you place a view onto a sheet, the viewport size will default to enclose everything in that view.

I like to crop each view just to what I want to see before I ever place them onto sheets, but of course you can change a view's crop boundary size after the fact if you want to.

[micah · Accepted solution]

Hi guys,

Thank you so much for the solutions you all gave but the problem was the grids. The grids were extended to the other side of the plan. So I reduced the length of the grids which were not important and brought it closer to the cropped area and the viewport size got smaller. 

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi guys,

Thank you so much for the solutions you all gave but the problem was the grids. The grids were extended to the other side of the plan. So I reduced the length of the grids which were not important and brought it closer to the cropped area and the viewport size got smaller. 

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Did you change them to 2D before you changed the length?

[Anonymous]

I am having the same problem?

My crop region is in tight around my section but the viewport is enormous by comparison. It makes it hard to place the views and align them as the view disappears when dragging the viewport around the sheet.

See attached screen shot.

[andrea_kohl]

I have found that in Revit 2019, if I use structural steel parametric cuts, it adds those into the viewport area, even if they are not within the view's crop region. I have a workset just for structural connections, when I toggled off that workset, the viewport area returned to the crop region size.

[curtisridenour]

I ran into this issue today and it was a linked reference plane. When I turned off reference planes in VG the size of the viewport matched the crop region again. Seems to be that datum elements can create havoc on the viewport extents.

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot ,What led Structural Connections ? 

[ConstantinBudui]

IT WAS THE STRUCTURAL CONNECTIONS FROM A LINKED FILE IN MY CASE. HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHAT CAUSES THIS PROBLEM FOR YEARS, THANKS A LOT!

[tjuneau]

In my case it was the view scale that was causing the hang up. My view was initially set at 1" = 1'-0". I changed it to 1/2" = 1'-0" and all worked.

I was trying to get a whole project view which was spanning about 600 feet by 500 feet in size. 

[curtisridenour]

Today it was the center point of a curved wall 1000 feet away from the building.

[daniel.uribeSYNPT]

This worked for me, a reference plane in my linked Architectural model. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

From the properties, go to extents. Then check the crop view box and the view crop region box. This will allow you to resize the crop region around your view hence resizing your view port.

[curtisridenour]

Today it was the circuit of the light fixtures. Not the light fixtures themselves. The circuit of the light fixtures.

[jenfrick3]

This worked for me - Thank you!!

[dbroad]

I've recently determined that it is probably caused by the "Section Cycle Selection Tail" symbol, which is usually off unless selected.  When I turn off the display of sections in a view, the viewport size is correct.  This likely indicates a long term undiscovered Revit bug.  There are similar features in Revit that put similar temporary symbology too far from the object being worked with (such as lock symbols, when locking dimensions or alignment locks) that should also be addressed. 

If Autodesk wanted to fix this, they could easily move the cycle and lock symbols closer to the visible parts of the objects (such as section line ends).  As it is, I'm stuck with moving the titles on sheets to overlap the viewport boundaries, which is a messy, time consuming process.

[PeterKnight]

I have just made the same discovery. There's no reason for the Viewport to expand to include something that can never be printed - let alone something that only modifies something - like if the wall flip arrows were accounted for in the viewport. It might not be a bug, but it's a big oversight. Having this issue in Revit 2023, but checked 2024 and still an issue.

[curtisridenour]

Today it was a switch system. I found that you can create a view filter to turn off switch systems despite there not being a model/annotation/analytical category for these elements. You can also schedule them and put them on a hidden workset if you so desire.