From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)

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View range

View range

- [Instructor] We've looked at a lot of different ways to control Visibility in our Views and in the Project in general, but actually really one of the places you should start is a consideration of View Range. So what View Range does, it's a setting of Floor Plans that controls the vertical slice that that Floor Plan represents. So a Floor Plan is like a horizontal slice through a building, where you're looking down into the space and we can control the heights of where that slice occurs and how much of the building it includes. So I'm up here on a Level 2 Floor Plan, but you're not seeing any of the geometry from Level 1. So that kind of right there shows you that something is preventing us from seeing all of that geometry down below, and that is the View Range feature that's doing that. So Visibility Graphics in all of the other display settings are important but they really don't come into play if the object that you want to display is outside of the View Range or outside of the…

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