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Understanding view extents and crop regions

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Understanding view extents and crop regions

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- In this video I want to talk about Crop Regions. Crop Regions are a way of controlling what's in a view more geographically. What I mean by that is, you define an actual physical boundary and only the elements that fall within that boundary will be displayed. Now the most common reason to consider Crop Regions, is to compose views to fit comfortably on standard title block sheets, but there are other reasons that you might adjust the Crop Regions as well. So I'm here at a Level One floor plan, and what I'm going to do is do zoom to fit, z + f, and then Ill type z + o, to zoom out a little bit further. This particular view is currently not set to crop. So what that means is, we could draw geometry anywhere out here and it would display in this view just fine. So let me demonstrate by drawing a wall, and I'll just kind of draw it out here in this location. So notice that even though it's significantly far away from the building, it doesn't matter, it still displays just like any of…

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