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section view top and bottom level constraints

section view top and bottom level constraints

When creating a new section in a 50 storey building, it takes way to much time to crop the view properly. during the initial creation of a section view users should be able to create the section based on the levels they want to see

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Anonymous
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It will be nice if section view show by default only the level that this section has been taken at ,

and then we have the option to enlarge the section as needed  

for instance section take in level 2 show by default level 2 not all levels.

Anonymous
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It would be nice if this option was a default setting for each Section Type that is in the project.  That way, if you're drawing a "Building Section" or a "Wall Section" section type, the view would default to the regular, show-all-levels section.  But if you wanted to draw a "Detail" section type or something, it would default to only show the level where it's taken from.

Based on the view range would be sensible, building sections would be taken off a site plan, internal sections from a floor plan, details would need to be custom cropped down anyway.

Anonymous
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Thanks Nick
samuelsanf
Advisor

Why not to use Scope Boxes?

 

With Scope Box you can control both, top and bottom extends and left and right "crop region" extends... Is more practical asing a Scope Box to 50 views than modify two constraints in 50 views.

cbrown28PKUD4
Contributor

In a project dealing with dozens of section views and each one being slightly different (1st floor to 3rd floor, or 5th floor to 11th floor) it is not worth it to create new scope boxes for every single instance of a section view. 

samuelsanf
Advisor

@cbrown28PKUD4, you don't need a Scope Boxes per section. Scope Box are different to Crop Region.

 

In a case that you a 11 story bulding, you can create two Scope Box, one named Lower Floors (croping the model from fisrt floor to 6th) and Upper Floors (for floors 7th to 11th).

 

For every Lower section view you assign in the view property the Lower Floor Scope Box; and similar for the upper sections, with Upper Floor Scope Box.

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Another think is to create Large Sections in order to only anotate one large section, the larger section is not placed on sheets, but you create two "Duplicate as Dependant" views that limit they Crop Region with the Scope Box as mentiones above. Also use Matchline and View Reference.

 

 

In case you need to edit the limits for sections, you only need to modify few scope boxes instead of dozens of views.

dzanta
Mentor

I would like to have the following functionality:

When you create a Bldg, Wall, or Detail section, you can specify the top and bottom-level limits within the contextual ribbon, options toolbar, or properties palette during the annotation creation. Alternately, if the section is already created, you should be able to select the crop region or annotation symbol and specify the top and bottom-level limits.

 

This prevents a section from showing all the data of the model.  For example, on a ten-story building, I only want to make a section from ground to level 3 instead of using the entire model as a default.

LijeeshBAHHG
Explorer

Whenever we are creating new section, we have to drag the level manually every time. If we have an option to control the level while creating a new section which could be ease for working.

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