crop region shape

[woethesinner]

Just a quick question, does the crop region for a view have to be square or can I edit the shape? If I can edit the shape, how do I edit it?

Thanx

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Only square at the present time. R8 maybe?

[Kroke]

No, I've asked for this since version 3.

[gbrowne]

Has anybody noticed now when you do a crop on a perspective it only occupies a small zone on the screen, and when you do z-x, to zoom all, nothing happens?

[Dimitri Harvalias]

The crop region on a perspective only affects the size of the viewport relative to the active window and when you do a Z-X it just fills the active window with the viewport. In order to zoom the perspective itself you need to relocate the camera.

[neels]

we demand to be able to change the crop region's shape

[gbrowne]

HCSL, I know that, I am saying when trying to do a z-x on the cropped region, it wasn't filling the active window.

[PeterJ]

Try a rectangular crop region and lose the stuff you don't require with a white filled region with invisible lines for its outline. Stick the view on a sheet and move the title to a location that suits you.

[papurajx]

I tried this method earlier. The white filled region covers only the model elements and the annotation elements like grid lines, text etc are not concealed by this filled regeon.

[Rols]

You've got to be kidding me!!! So, the only way to achieve this is to actually do 2 seperate callouts, hide one of them and then hide the view title on one of them on the sheet.

You folks at the factory sure do make it a challenge for us out here trying to convert Acad users to Revit! Perhaps we need a little more focus on the basic functions that we've had in Acad for years now (irregular shaped viewports, a real text editor, some way of importing Word & Excel documents, etc...)