Breaking Section Lines; Controlling The Line Style Of Broken Section Lines; Controlling Section View Width And Depth - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

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Breaking Section Lines

Breaking section lines is useful when you want to create a section view, but you don t want the section line
to appear across the drawing. Breaking a section line has no effect on what appears in the section view.
You can break section lines by clicking the break control (
segments. The section break is in the middle of the section line. The following images show the same section,
whole and broken.
To rejoin the section line, click the break control again.
NOTE A break in a section line is view-specific. It affects the display of the section only in the view where the break
was made.

Controlling the Line Style of Broken Section Lines

1 Click Settings menu
2 Change the value of the Broken Section Display Style property to Continuous or Gapped.

Controlling Section View Width and Depth

When you create a section view, Revit Architecture sets a default view depth and width. By selecting a section
and resizing its crop region, you can more closely control what displays in the section view.
The following image shows a section and its crop region.
View Tags
Gapped is the default. If you select Continuous, the section line displays according to the Broken
Section Line style defined in the Object Styles dialog. For more information on the Object Styles
dialog, see Object Styles
on page 1254
Section Tags.
on page 484.
) and adjusting the length of the section line
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