Why do elevation views snap or lock or align horizontally but not vertically?

[cscott12ZX5LX]

When you are placing multiple elevations on a sheet, you can hover an elevation horizontally next to another one and it will snap into the same alignment. This doesn't occur when you try to align vertically. Why is that?

[gnarkill283]

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[ToanDN]

Elevations view do align vertically on sheet, for example of two views has grid 1, they can align so the grid 1 locations match.

[gnarkill283]

I've opened a brand new project in both 2022 and 2025 and neither snaps vertically. I have a project with gridlines and same scope box in 2025 and it doesn't snap either. These 2 elevations below won't snap.

[azad.Nanva]

this is two side of building,how you want these be aligned, on Grid A or what, This is not logical.
you should find and use your way to fix it , for example you can use the extra grids. You can say in IDEA to add the align to the views not just from same side or same grid line.

[gnarkill283]

Ok so its not possible to snap a west elevation to an east elevation even though they always share a mid point. Good to know thanks.

[mhiserZFHXS]

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@gnarkill283 wrote:

Ok so its not possible to snap a west elevation to an east elevation even though they always share a mid point. Good to know thanks.

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They share an infinite number of points that could be aligned... but only one of those points can be aligned at a time. How would Revit know what point you are trying to align?

[gnarkill283]

Currently when you hover an elevation horizontally next to another one, a dashed blue line appears that you can snap to, which seems to be located in the middle of your building not to a level. Why not provide the same thing vertically?

[mhiserZFHXS]

The blue line is arbitrary. Its simply a graphical representation that two items are aligned. It doesn't matter where its located in two views that are oriented the same way. More importantly, there could be multiple blue lines and when one is aligned, they are all aligned. That is the distinction here. If you have two elevations looking from opposite directions, and you have two arbitrarily placed planes, you can never align them both. Only one.

So when you try to align opposite elevations/sections, Revit has no idea which line to align to. Even a "mid-line" is arbitrary. Mid-line of what? Does it include the topography? Just the building? What if there are multiple phases? And you may think you have answers to all of that, but how does Revit know? And then why is that information even relevant?

[Mike.FORM · Accepted solution]

You can draw a ref plane in plan or elevation where you want the alignment to happen (midpoint of building, midpoint of grids, etc.). Then on your sheet you can align you views with that ref plane using move. Your mouse will snap to the ref planes when you are outside the view on your sheet.