Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC, User Manual

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■ Section views are not available for in-place families.
■ If the section symbol appears without a head, you need to load the section head. See Changing the
Section Head on page 97.
Creating a Section View
1 Open a plan, section, elevation, or detail view.
2 Click View menu
➤
New
➤
Section, or on the View tab of the Design Bar, click Section.
3 In the Type Selector, select Wall Section, Building Section, or Detail.
4 On the Options Bar, select the view scale.
5 Place the cursor at the starting point of the section, and drag through the model or family.
NOTE You can snap a section line parallel or perpendicular to a non-orthogonal datum or wall.
Snapping to a wall is available in plan views.
6 Click when you reach the end point of the section.
The section line and the crop region appear and are selected, as the following image shows.
7 If desired, resize the crop region by dragging the blue controls. The depth of the section view
changes accordingly.
8 Click Modify or press ESC to exit the Section command.
9 To open the section view, double-click the section header, or select the section view from the
Sections leaf of the Project Browser.
The section view changes when the design changes or the section line is moved.
Section Tag Visibility
The section tag is visible in plan, elevation, and other section views, provided its crop region intersects the
view range. For example, if you resize the crop region of the section view so that it no longer intersects the
plan view’s view range, the section symbol does not appear in the plan view.
TIP The section instance parameter Hide at Scales Coarser Than establishes a scale at which sections are either
shown or hidden in other views. For example, a section tag can be hidden at scales coarser than 1/4”=1’0”.
Section symbols can appear in elevation views even if their crop boundary is turned off. The section appears
in elevation if the section line intersects the elevation clip plane. To view and modify the position of the
elevation clip plane, select the arrowhead of an elevation symbol in a plan view, and the clip plane appears
with drag controls on it. If you resize the clip plane such that it no longer intersects the section line, the
section does not appear in the elevation view.
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