From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Using cutaway views

Using cutaway views - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Using cutaway views

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- [Narrator] One of my favorite ways to view and edit the model is in cutaway 3D views. So up until now we've been doing all of our work in 3D in this simple axin and metric view and if I scroll down in the browser it's got the name curly bracket 3D curly bracket and I often refer to that as curly bracket 3D, or the official name of that is the default 3D view. Now that default 3D view comes into being when you click the little default 3D view icon here, or the birdhouse. So the way that that tool works is, if that view exists then it simply opens it and if it doesn't exist then it creates it. So we're going to see examples of that right now. But what I want to do here is show you how we can take this or any 3D view and customize what we're seeing, specifically we can enable a section box that allows us to crop out parts of the model. So it works just like a crop box except think of it as a three dimensional crop box. So…

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