3D View Manipulation Using Scope Boxes - Revit 2019

Something I do love about new releases of Revit, and even with new Service Pack updates, is that we often find new features which are not part of the official new features lists. Similar to the previous Revit Recess post: Revit 2019 Colorfill Legend Visual Style, we have another exciting new feature which allows us to crop a 3D view with a scope box.

Let's start this entry by looking at the various ways in which we can manipulate the extents of a 3D view:

Method 1: View Crop Region - Pretty much self-explanatory

Method 2: Section Box - A manual method of isolating a specific area of your model, manipulating the section box extents by pushing and pulling the section box sides. The biggest drawback to this method is that the size and position of the section box is not saved. In other words, if you meticulously position and size your section box, turn it off and turn it on again, the section box extents will be around your entire project.

Method 3: Selection Box - My go-to method for automatically sectioning a 3D view according to selected objects. A "Bread-and-Butter" command along with Trim and Align.

Method 4: Scope Box - Revit 2019 now allows us to apply a scope box to a 3D view. This is game changer, especially when working on very large and complex projects, where a lot of time has been spent setting up specific positions for scope boxes on plan views. Very nice feature.

Have a great weekend, folks! For the South African readers of Revit Recess, enjoy Heritage Day on Monday!

Revit 2019: Colorfill Legend Visual Style

Revit 2019 has provided us with 2 great Colorfill Legend functions called "Highlighter Width" and "Switch to contour fill at" for Piping.

From the image below, notice how the graphics for pipes looks. The default setting for "Highlighter Width" is 1.6, which controls the thickness of the colorfill lines. The default setting for "Switch to contour fill at" is 152.4, which means that any pipe with a size of more than 152.4 (In the example) would not have a border, but rather be filled with colour. 

When changing the "Switch to contour fill at" option from 1.6 to 0.5, the border lines for the piping are a lot thinner.

Similarly, changing the above option to 3, results in a much thicker border lines

Changing the "Switch to contour fill at" option to 50, will ensure that all pipes larger than 50mm will have a solid fill instead of border lines.  

And lastly, changing the above option to 10 will ensure all pipes larger than 10 will have a solid fill. 

These new functions could make isolating certain properties on piping a lot easier, without having to set up multiple filters to achieve a specific visual style. 

Have a good week, folks!