Overriding The Cut Plane - Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD MEP 2010 User Manual

7 Under General, for Display controlled by, select the level at which you want your changes
8 Under General, for Display component, select a display component from the list.
9 Click
The following example shows the current display component details on the Display tab for the selected pipe
object.
RELATED See
Help for more information.

Overriding the Cut Plane

To display all the architectural and business system objects correctly, some designs require different cut
planes and display ranges for AutoCAD MEP objects as opposed to AutoCAD Architecture objects.
RELATED See Object-Specific Cut Planes in the AutoCAD Architecture Help for more information.
To apply cut plane overrides on the Display tab
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2 Select
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NOTE Instead of selecting an object, you can click
click the display component in the drawing for the same result.
applied.
Only the elevation-based display components that pertain to the selected object are listed.
(on the General title bar) to apply changes to other display representations at the same
level indicated by the Display controlled by property. Make changes to the Apply Display
Component Properties to Other Display Representations worksheet.
TIP A display component must be selected for this button to appear. The corresponding worksheet
will only reflect display representations for the selected component.
Using the Properties Palette to Change Display Properties
Switch to the desired workspace.
Enable Display by Elevation
at the bottom of the Display tab, and then
on page 149 in the AutoCAD Architecture
in the Options dialog.