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atema

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Heyyy reviters, I'm trying to make simple interior elevations that show only the inside boundary of the wall / floor / ceiling finish as a boundary for the elevation. when i snap my elevation crop boundaries to the interior finish edge, this also cuts the line in half, so it prints very thin. When i try to then outline over the elevation boundary with a wide line, it still crops half of my line! how the heck to i get my clean fat bounding lines?!?!?!

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atema

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Justin Young

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hi there,

I had the same issue in previous versions of revit, but also the frustration of a bug in elevation views that would not allow fixed extension lines on dimension, the work around was to do as yuo have mentioned.  Anyhow all fixed in 2008. 

Also, one of the advancements of 2008 that you no doubt would be well aware of is the mouse right click menu option to "override graphics in view".  I use this to select a heavier pen weight for the crop boundary, much easier & faster than masking.  The only hickup is that this setting does not save to the view template tool, therefore you must individually select the crop boundary & make the alteration in each individual view.

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lorne17

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We use 2008  and we are having the same problem as atema.  The work around was what you did with the masked region.  Only one thing with that: you don't need to snap the outside "invisible" border to the crop box.  Just use the same line type but draw it outside the crop box and you wont' see it.  We also hid our crop box in view so we can see exactly what it'll look like after print.  

This also really helps when we cut through cabinetry.  We just mask the outside edge of that so our boundary isn't a rectangle.  Does that make sense?  We found it's actually really easy to make that masked region and us the pick arrow tool.  THen when we trace the cut edge in our interior elevations, we draw a bigger rectangle outside the crop view perimeter and there's our interior border cut.   

HTH,

Lorne 

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