I don’t know if anyone have ever found a way to make Revit’s matchlines works like those in Civil3D ?
For what I know, since 2004 nothing has changed regarding the use of matchlines in Revit.
- Create dependent views
- Draw a matchline where crop boxes overlaps
- Add View reference “tags” manually on both sides of the lines and choose the right ref in the list.
- Matchline will appear in all views, tags will only appear in views they do not reference
Seems quite simple but…
- I cannot snap and/or align onto the matchline when I place the “tag” (better for long sheet nr).
- I cannot snap and/or align onto the matchline when moving, rotating,… and the position/rotate origin is not on the origin defined by Refplanes in the family.
- I cannot load or transform the tag family into a linebased family to mimic/align the matchline onto a Refplane
- I cannot hatch the area beyond the matchlines to greyout “non-valid” data/area.
- Matchlines being only available while using dependent views so it's a problem for infrastructure drawings as we are then forced to have the same View Range for all the views…. Should be better to have both “as original” & "custom" choice like with Parts & their "Original" Elements.
- Matchlines drawn in plan do not display in elevations, and vice versa.
Off course we’ve tried to place those with Dynamo too but it seems that matchlines & viewreference tags are not available trough the API
Kind Regards,