I hope that this little trick can help everyone speed up getting those jogs displayed in the other views quicker. Bingo, everything is looking great and you just saved a whole bunch of time! Now re-enable the Crop Region and Scope Box in the affected views and you are good to go. Now select the grids or levels, click the Propagate Extents button on the Ribbon, pick your views and finish the command. First thing is to Disable the Crop Region and Scope Box if you have one in the view that contains the 2D extents you want to propagate, plus any other views you want to propagate. So how do get past this if this is happening to you in a project? Here is the workaround, a little messy if you have a lot of views to work with but at least you can get it to work. Below is a good example of that happening with a crop region and the dialog box won’t open. Very confusing when you first stumble on this command and in one view it works but in a different view it doesn’t, did that just ring a bell for some for you, and it did for me. You know this is happening to you when the dialog box will not open at all, no error, nothing. But there’s a funky issue with this command, for some reason this functionality breaks when a crop region or scope box is enabled and the datum’s 3D extents goes beyond the scope box or crop region edge. The concept of the command is when you change the grid or level from 3D to 2D you can then propagate those custom 2D changes to other views. Click to place the scope box around the horizontal wing of the building. If desired, name the scope box on the Options Bar. Since this is only done in the view where you did it this is where the Propagate Extents tool comes in to save the day! Most of us would like to see those jogs in a lot of the other views and this is where those changes can be pushed into all the other views that you choose. The scope boxes will make it easier to read the views and understand where the grids of the two wings intersect. So you add an elbow by clicking the little jog symbol and change your view to your liking. So when would you want to use this command, let’s say you have grids or levels that are close to each other or they overlap each other. It’s not a regular button that shows on the ribbon as you go through the tabs but only shows when you select a datum such as a grid or a level. The feature is called Propagate Extents, what is sad is this tool is not very well known, part of the problem is discovering it. □īut please contact me if you have issues installing them.In this Click Saver I want to talk about an old trick that I have used for years that recently a client thought was a new feature in Revit 2014. The install package is made for me by Autodesk – if it fails there’s unfortunately not too much I can do. Please Note : The applications are probably best installed as local Administrator user – if you have strange error messages when installing, that could be the case. The function maintains all scope box selections already made in the project.Īvailable to Revit 20 only and no longer available at the Autodesk App Store since they no longer support older applications than Revit 2018.īut you can download the final version here: Scope Box Reorder You can also use the function to rename the Scope Boxes, just change the name before you click Reorder. Solution: In order to resolve this issue: Rotate the view itself by rotating a scope box not on the sheet but back in the view. Scope Box Reorder is a small tool which is able to reorder those scope boxes with a single click, it detects the correct numerical order and also allows you to manually adjust the reordering with drag and drop functionality. Issue: When rotating a view on a sheet using Rotation on Sheet in Revit, it also rotates the detail title, which is not a desirable graphic standard. In larger projects, this quickly gets out of hand and quite a long time is spent scrolling up and down the properties drop down menu, trying to find and select the correct scope box. Here’s a graph (that builds on everyoneelse’s work) to duplicate and land the scope box where it should go. That is, the order you or somebody else created the scope boxes. Mostly I want to copy the scope box to coordinate between files, so I do think it is useful to have a Dynamo solution. Scope Box Reorder Reorders Scope Boxes in a Revit ProjectĪfter creating scope boxes in larger projects you might notice the scope box selection drop down menu is not ordered correctly – instead of being ordered alphabetically or numerically, it’s ordered in created order.
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