Sections and Detail Views
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| Advanced Concepts |
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WARNING: The Mirror command (with "Copy" checked) makes a copy of the selection mirrored about an axis. If you uncheck "Copy", it simply deletes the original afterward. This can cause problems with references and constraints. To flip a Section, you should use the flip arrow NOT the Mirror command.
Live Views vs Drafting Views
TODO: put this in Drafting Views also
disadvantages
- annotations (Dimensions and Tags) can disappear without warning
- if something moves, other annotation (like leader arrows) might not line up properly
- easy to fake (n.t.s.)
advantages
- you can tag
- always reflects latest design condition (if modeled properly)
- hard to fake (always t.s.)
If you move a section cut in plan, line-based Detail Items, Repeating Details, Detail Groups, and Detail Lines will move with the cut, but Text and regular Detail Items (and overridden 2D Level ends, etc.) will not.
Filled Regions?
TODO: example illustrations
| behavior when | ||
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| moving a section cut in plan | rotating a section cut in plan | |
| line-based Detail Components | moves with cut | |
| Detail Groups | ||
| Repeating Details | "stay"? (moves with cut?) | |
| Detail Lines | ||
| Detail Components | doesn't move (maintains position relative to model?) | move [out] (& get rotated onto a flat plane) |
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| Annotation Symbols | ||
| Tags | ||
split segment messes up the cut in other views (not shown when it should be)
workaround: if need to split segment, hide instead, then place section cut (ref other view) and split segment on that
alternate workaround: enlarge the Crop Region to show where the HEAD is (but still shows the mark at the proper cut plane) - probably related to some kind of bounding box issue like stairs/railings and Plan Regions. see also Eric Zhang's 7/6/18 Screencast
2018-07-02 4:15pm HST: Submitted Case ID: 14384466. https://autode.sk/2tYzAnd
NOTE: The jog is still limited by the Clip Depth of the view it's referring to. TODO: WISH: no limits
TIPs
- Section Cut Size & Locking Size to Symbol - no easy way to "reset" view extents and section symbol to be exactly the same. There is a WORKAROUND (but it's better to just eyeball it). The workaround should make it exact, but still not linked.
- Aligning Heads and Tails is possible, but the snap point is nowhere near where you'd expect [TODO: Idea: fix], so much so that some people are not even aware that it's possible: AUGI - 2003-10-09 - Section Head/Tail Alignment? (or maybe it wasn't possible back then?), but that thread suggests aligning to Ref. Planes [TODO: check]; would it be good to have the ends align-locked like Grids (as suggested in thread)? not sure...
Ideas
- Faster Drawing [Creation] of Sections with View Templates applied - WORKAROUND: copy section
- copying a Section should keep the Template setting
- Align sections[1]
- View reference labels as instance parameters
- Moveable viewnamep-label in section heads
- Rotatable Section Heads (that don't flip upside down) - a re-post of:
- Rotatable Section Heads [IMPLEMENTED] - R2021 (but not usable if you have more than one Label in the Section Head)
- IDEA:Plan Region should affect visibility of Sections / Details / Callouts by lionel.kai -
- Pre-2017 BUG: Revit "Purge Unused" command deletes callout and section views
- there must be an idea corresponding to Developed Elevation [TODO: find or create]
- Ability to flip a section globally or Propagate Sections - Propagate Extents for Sections/Details
- View Breaks - Turning off the Crop Region removes all View Breaks
- IDEA:annotation symbols by Yien_Chao - "have different visibilty based on the detail level... [especially] grids head, section head and elevation marks"
Notes
- ↑ pre-2018-03-14 was composing reply (need to check?): @SeanWitheFSL It's probably just using the "CG" of the symbol (which includes an arrow, for most people - maybe what's throwing it off). But it would definitely be nice if it would consider the midpoint (or even one of the ends) as the center of rotation (the way it uses a Group's origin, not its "CG", though the origin starts there). At least you can snap the center of rotation to one of the section endpoints!