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

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View extents and crop regions

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

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View extents and crop regions

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- [Narrator] In this video we're going to look at cropping views. Now views can either be cropped or uncropped. So if you leave a view uncropped, it will show out to infinity essentially any geometry that you draw will appear in the view and if you want to focus in on a particular area, you can crop the view down. Now, the most common reason to crop a view down would be to allow it to fit on a particular size sheet of paper when it comes time to create a document set later. But let's go ahead and look at the cropping behavior in a couple of different examples here. So this particular floor plan at the moment is not cropped, and what that simply means is if I were to zoom out, so let me do zoom out two times I could draw some geometry way over here, and it would display just fine. In fact, if I zoom out even further, I could continue drawing geometry out as far away from the building as I want and it would continue to…

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