Callouts

[slovenc0417]

A colleague in our office has a situation in which he is going to have an enlarged plan showing domestic water piping. He created a callout of the area and then a view showing the subsequent enlarged plan.

The question is, how do go about hiding all of the piping within the callout without hiding the other piping on the rest of the plan?

[tfullerpipes]

You could try:
1. plan regions
2. slicing the pipe and hiding items
3. workset filters
4. accept that Revit doesn't behave like AutoCAD and past drafting practices (good luck convincing the establishment to change).

We leave the pipe visible but do not annotate anything in that area except in the enlarged plan.

[CADastrophe]

There is no perfect way to accomplish this, really, unless the area is a single room in which case a Masking Region would work (unless the View is set to Wireframe). Otherwise, here are two possible methods.

View Filter
Create a View Filter that will hide the desired elements, either by hiding elements with something like "ENLARGED" in the Comments field, or by having those elements on a separate Workset.

Plan Region
You can try creating Plan Region within the Callout area and adjust its View Range so that the Top and Bottom are 1/2" or so above and below the Cut Plane, and ensure that they "miss" the piping. This should hide the Piping but retain the Walls.

Neither of the above would deal with a segment of pipe that runs into the region, and tactical use of Masking Regions would be needed to "cut off" the segment of Pipe that crosses into the area.

[slovenc0417]

Thank you both for the suggestions. Right now we are going the masking route, but we are looking into filtering with comments.

[neightyeight]

Here's the solution we use. It's all automatic with no need for filters, labeling pipes, etc.

First, create a masking region to hide everything inside the callout area. Next, create another view that shows only the architecture, and is cropped to the area of the callout (maybe just a few inches extra just to be safe). On the sheet, place your plumbing view. On top of that place your architecture only view and line it up. Now you can model away and everything MEP inside your callout will be hidden but architecture will appear when printed! If for some reason you changed your plumbing view to wireframe you would see through the masking region and thus not hide your MEP content...

One more note, I usually create the architecture only view so that the crop region bottom left corner is an understandable offset and shift (2-1/2" vs. 2-123/256") from the bottom left corner of the crop region of the plumbing view. This helps to be able to line the view up on the sheet exactly instead of eye-balling it. In doing this you have to translate the scale: 2-1/2" * 96 (for 1/8" scale) = 240" in 'model space'.