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Understanding View Range Settings

The document discusses view range settings in Autodesk Revit. It explains that there are 4 settings that control the visible range: Top, Cut Plane, Bottom, and Depth. Objects will only be visible between the Cut Plane and Depth Plane. The Top Plane and area between the Top and Cut Plane act as a "blind spot" where objects won't be visible, except generic models and casework. The document provides examples of how different view range settings display objects at various levels in the model.

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Understanding View Range Settings

The document discusses view range settings in Autodesk Revit. It explains that there are 4 settings that control the visible range: Top, Cut Plane, Bottom, and Depth. Objects will only be visible between the Cut Plane and Depth Plane. The Top Plane and area between the Top and Cut Plane act as a "blind spot" where objects won't be visible, except generic models and casework. The document provides examples of how different view range settings display objects at various levels in the model.

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View Range

View Range setting can be found in properties panel, if


it is greyed out (locked), it can be accessed in the view
templates

There are 4 settings in View Range Setting Dialog box

Top - Controls the Top most range that we want to


show up in plan

Cut Plane - Plane where the view is cut and only the
objects below this plane are shown in plane

Bottom & View Depth – These 2 properties have a


difference in view depth control but the one thing in
common is they control the range below. After their
plane, objects are not shown or shown differently
In View Range, Out of the 4 setting only the cut
plane and depth plane are important.

The only range where objects show up on plan are


between the Cut Plane and Depth Plane.

The objects above Top Plane and below Depth Plan


doesn’t show on plan.

Also, the objects between Top Plane and Cut Plane


(Blue Shade) also doesn’t show up on plan unless
the objects are Generic Model or Casework.
This is a typical condition where Top and Cut plane
are set above the level and Bottom and Depth plane are
set at level

Here we can see the Mezzanine floor, railing and


window. Typical plan view.
Objects in
Depth plane

This is condition which most people don’t use or not


aware of. This condition is widely used when the
building has mezzanine level, where one has to show
lower level too but has to differentiate them from the
rest. This is where Depth Plane can be used. Till the
Bottom Plane the Line Style and Line Weight of
objects are based on Object Category and Visibility
Setting. But whatever is between the Bottom Plane and
Depth Plane, the line style changes to Beyond. So this
can be changed in Line Style and can be used to
differentiate from current level.
This is a different condition where Top Plane is above
the Cut Plane.

Since the Cut plane is below Top Plane, Objects


(Window) between the planes are not shown (Blue
Shade) except Generic Model or Case work which
can be seen even if they are above the cut plane.

The region between Top Plane and Cut Plane is kind of


Blind Spot. Only Generic Model and Casework from
region show up on plan. This condition can be used
when you don’t want to show some objects.
But there are some exceptions in View Range,

• Unconnected walls below the height of 2m


always show as projection lines rather than
cut lines.
• Here we can see the Cut plane through both
walls but wall on the left shows up as if it is
not cut as it is less than 2m.
Another exception is,

• Floors, Ramps shows up on plan even if they


are 1.2m below the bottom plane.

• Even though the slab is below bottom plane


and depth plane but since it is at distance of
1.2m, it shows in plan

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