Crop Region (XClip) for DWG (Link or Import)

[lionel.kai]

Clients working in CAD will often put a bunch of stuff in one file - wall elevations, for example. When we link in those backgrounds to live views, the extent that we want to show the DWG doesn't always match up with the Crop Region of the View it's in (if our section's wider than the client's, and they have their elevations close together, we'll start to see the next elevation). It would be nice to be able to clip the DWG independently of the view it's in (without having to manually edit the CAD file every time we get a new one).

This is (sort of) a repost of Preserving X_Clip of Imported DWG and somewhat related to Crop region for drafting views.

[dplumb_BWBR]

There are at least 3 or 4 Ideas already posted about this.

[opesch_]

Hi @dplumb_BWBR,

Sorry but I did use the search and did not find the 3 or 4 ideas regarding this besides the archived "Preserving X_Clip of Imported DWG" which is archived since 2017.  Feel free to merge or post here those 😉

I would like to emphasize that this idea is not (fully) related to cropping drafting views ! Even if this ability would certainly help in that case too and has been mentioned in its comments.

When I must link a subcontractor/partner DWG (C3D sections or profile views, C3D survey showing Togopoints & labels, 2D DWG fabrication details, suspended ceiling layout, manufacturer's face & section views...) in a planview, ceiling view or section as @lionel.kai wrote we are not able to clip/crop the linked data on what must be shown in our view.  

It is AGAINST BIM philosophy (and efficiency/accountability/legality) to modify someone's data... hence the linking procedure we all use since decades ! So the actual workflow which requires duplicating the source (and maintained) DWG to unclip, explode and chop its blocks (to remove remote objects/origins) then wblock in separate DWGs each "region" which should appear independently in our different views,... is NOT a valid BIM process. @olivierbayle4523 can confirm that this is certainly valid when dealing with infrastructure subcontractors.

What we do need is the ability to link a CAD (in current view only) and clip the instance (can be many instances of the same DWG-link put on the same view like Lionel explained in case of several details placed along each other in the source DWG which did not required real-world coords on the side of the originator). 

[LuisZJUN5]

This feature would save a LOT of work around work, sound simple to implement, {or maybe not}, have no idea...
once we insert an AutoCAD file, would be awesome to just window select the part of the view needed for the Drafting view. (View Clip).

[jeremy_peix]

Hello,

I think it would also be useful to be able to cut a dwg at different elevations (equivalent to the 3DDELIM command in Autocad).