Creating A Plan Region; Controlling Visibility Of Plan Regions - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

Creating a Plan Region

1 Open a plan view.
2 Click View menu
3 Sketch a closed loop using lines, rectangles, or polygons.
4 On the Design Bar, click Region Properties.
5 In the Element Properties dialog, for View Range, click Edit.
6 In the View Range dialog, specify the primary range and view depth.
7 Click Finish Sketch.
You do not have to enter sketch mode to edit the shape of a plan region. Each boundary line of the plan
region is a shape handle, as shown in the following image. Select the shape handle and drag it to modify
the size.

Controlling Visibility of Plan Regions

1 Click View menu
2 In the Visibility/Graphics dialog, click the Annotation Categories tab.
3 Scroll to the Plan Region category.
4 Select or clear the check box to show or hide the plan region.
5 Click in the Project/Surface Lines column, and click Override to make changes to the line weight,
6 Click OK.
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If the value for Cut Plane is specified as Parent View s Level, then the level used to define all the
clip planes (Top, Bottom, Cut, and View Depth) is the same as for the entire plan view.
NOTE Values for offsets need to make sense with respect to one another. For example, the top offset
cannot be lower than the cut plane offset, and the cut plane offset cannot be lower than the bottom
offset.
For more details about view range options, see
Visibility/Graphics, or type the shortcut key combination VG.
line color, and line pattern of the plan region.
Plan Region, or on the View tab of the Design Bar, click Plan Region.
Sketching on page 251.
View Range on page 198.