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sfountain

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using RAC 2014

ran across this today - needed to export a sheet to CAD. the sheet has multiple views - one of which is an interior elevation

where i edited the crop so it follows the crown and base board profiles. That view would only export the annotative elements, but not the

model elements. I tried to export just the view itself and got the same result. Thats when I noticed it was the only view on the sheet

with an edited crop. After resetting the crop to a rectangle, the export worked fine. 

Did a quick search of the site on the topic, but couldnt find anything - has anyone experienced this before?

Edited on: Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:05:54 PM

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Elevation views don't have an editable crop other than width and height - they are just rectangular so please explain what you are doing.

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sfountain

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maybe I dont have my terminology correct, however,please see attached.

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Oops - when I checked to see if this was something new, I was in an earlier version.  I knew they added this for callouts but did not realize they did it for elevations.......  Thanks for pointing it out.

Now - to answer your question - since this is a new feature in 2014, I would think your problem is a bug that you need to report to autodesk.

May I ask - why?  This is really timeconsuming to do with very little benefit.  We have no problems with just the rectangular callout in areas like this.

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sfountain

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no problem!

Its more of an old school thing i guess? - an interior elevation should only show the wall being elevated. the boundary of the interior

elevation should stop at the intersection of a perpindicular wall (typcially) - otherwise, you're showing something in section - generally a no-no for interior elevations

In this example, it is certainly a bit tedious to do with the complexity of the crown, however, thats not always the case - like a kitchen, for instance, I will typically only show the outline of cabinetry perpindicular to the wall being elevated, or sometimes theres a ceiling furrdownat the wall perpindicular to the wall being elevated.

Before this handy little feature was added, I would get the same result by using masking regions - IMO the crop edit is a much

better way to go. I dont typically need to provide interior elevations to someone in CAD format, so it hasnt come up until now.

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Ah .... but masking regions can be copied view to view and can be mirrored.  << Better yet....

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true - but you can do the same thing when in edit mode for the crop boundary..or at least you can mirror, i dont know about copying

from one view to the next.

Id be interested to see if anyone can duplicate the problem - edit a crop boundary, export to cad, and see what you get.

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Was there any good solution to this.  I am working with an interior designer that does not use Revit.

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Is there such a thing as an edited view crop region in CAD, I don't remember any? 

My initial response is "let them eat cake".....   They are the ones using CAD and may need to fix it.

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