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Section Box Visualization - More Detail

Section Box Visualization - More Detail

In any 3D axon or perspective view, editing the section box is a bit blind - how can I tell where along my building the section box face I'm editing is going to land?  Yes, I know one answer is, "go to an elevation or plan view and adjust the box to land where I want."  But I don't want to have to switch from one view to another.  I'm lazy like that.  Instead:

 

1_ in the 3D view, show some sort of a live view of where all of the various objects are going to be cut as I'm moving a face around.  sort of like when you see an object getting laser scanned, y'know?

2_ allow Align to work with this feature - I'd love to be able to Align-to-Center of a window and slice that bad boy right where I always want it.  You know you want it too.

3_ in plan, when I'm drawing my selection box before doing the BX shortcut, it would be great for the boundary of the box to be visible before I have to wait for the 3D view to get built.  Maybe something like PS's marching ants line?

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yavork
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I do the section box thing on daily basis to show managers and colleagues sections of the building - Revit (and Navisworks) is really lagging behind other software that do real time cutting for decades now - comes to mind sketchup and tekla...

I usually just export it to one of those (or  Lumion) and do walk and fly through as in revit is very frustrating.

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