How to Crop and Uncrop Views in Revit

Learn how to crop and uncrop your views in Revit, including using annotation crops!

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Video Transcript

Hey, I hope you're having a great day!

If this is your first time here, I'm Chelsea from TheStudentArchitect.com and today we're going to talk about how to crop and uncrop views in Revit.

If you're looking for a more structured way to learn Revit, you can always check out my Foundations of Revit class at TheStudentArchitect.com/classes.

So right now we're looking at a floor plan here and you can see that this view is cropped.

So let's say that I wanted to make modifications to another part of this building that you can't see, but I don't necessarily want to move the crop area around because I have it cropped exactly where I want it to be.

So all I have to do is go over to the Properties Panel and under "extents" you can see that there are options here for cropping.

You can see that we can toggle crop view on and off.

So right now it's off so that I can access other elements of this building or this drawing without having to alter where this crop region is.

You can also turn off the region visibility by unchecking that there, and then you won't have that as a distraction while you're working.

Another thing that you can do is an "annotation crop"

So let's make the crop region visible, so if I hover over that crop region, you'll see this dashed line here and that is the annotation crop.

So let's say, if I want to drag this annotation over here, outside of this crop region, and then turn the crop view on, you'll see that that annotation then goes away because it's outside of that annotation crop.

But you can see, if I drag this crop region over, then this becomes visible, while still hiding the model elements.

Again if I drag this back over, then it will disappear and if I turn off the annotation crop, then you'll see it come back.

If I want to bring back that text note or other type of annotation without having to modify the annotation crop, all I need to do is check it off, and then it will bring that annotation back again while still cropping the modeled elements.

So I hope that you found this quick tip helpful!

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I hope you have a great day, and I'll see you next Sunday! P.S. Don't forget to check out my Foundations of Revit course if you're looking to improve your Revit skills!

Happy modeling!

♥ Chelsea

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