Plan too big for one sheet - Matchline??

[tsbykatherine60220]

I've got a plan that needs to be split onto 2 sheets per level. I've searched the Revit forums and found that it seems to be a pain. You've got to duplicate the view and adjust the crop area each time you want to plot. When you need to work on the plan again you delete the copied views and redo them when it's time to plot again.

Yuck! Has anyone found a better alternative to this? What has worked for you?

Thanks in advance,

Rick McElvain
Arnold and O'Sheridan

[aaronrumple]

No. No. No. That's not how you do it at all...

You have the full plan at whatever scale fits on your sheet. You then duplicate that twice. You set copy 1 and copy 2 each to a larger scale and crop as needed.

Each of these can go on a separate sheet - there is no need to ever adjust the crop regions of the views. All the model information will automatically update as the project develops. If you want the detail information from one view in another view, just copy/paste to view. If you want the information to remain the same between two views - group the detail information. Then copy/paste it from one view to the other. When you edit the group in one view - the other view is automatically updated.

[tsbykatherine60220]

No. No. No. That's not how you do it at all...
Well now my heart rate is back to normal! Thanks a million for fielding this one Aaron. I was hoping there would be a better route.

Rick

[Terry Jordan]

Am I missing something or can you just use callouts to break the sheets up?

I just started breaking the plans up yesterday on our pilot project. I have the overall plan set at 1/16"=1'-0" and the callouts set at 1/8"=1'-0". I then do a "Hide Annotation in View" to hide the callout annotation. Everything seems to look correct. I guess maybe I'm doing the same thing, just going about it a little differently.

I haven't tried to tackle the matchline yet.

(Sorry for the poor quality of the jpegs)