Adjust Scope Boxes
BIM Suite · ProjX New Model Setup · 3m
This lesson teaches you how to adjust scope boxes in Revit to control the crop regions of your views efficiently. By aligning the scope box with architectural elements, you can ensure that your mechanical floor plans are accurately framed, saving time during project setup.
Learn to modify existing scope boxes, understand their impact on dependent views, and streamline your workflow for larger projects with multiple areas. This lesson emphasizes practical techniques for effective BIM management.
Transcript
Okay. Now a few other things I can do here quickly. I can adjust my scope box. So I'll show what this scope box is doing. The scope boxes control the the crop region of views that are set to it.
So if I go to my mechanical floor plan sheet or view rather, floor plan o one, I'm gonna double click on that, and you can see that it is this the crop region here is being cut off in exactly the to the exact dimensions of this crop scope box. So you can note that the scope box is named overall building. And if I come here to my mechanical floor plan o one, its scope box here is set to overall building. And so I'm going to adjust this now to match the architects approximately. It doesn't need to be perfect.
K. And now if I go back to my mechanical floor plan, that crop region is nicely centered on the building, And it is the crop region. The crop region for all of the views that are set to overall building have been adjusted, saving you lots of time on the setup. Okay. So I don't need to see that anymore. I've got that crop region. We have a few other scope boxes. The areas a through f, these are really for sort of campus scale projects that have different wings, and we won't need those on this project. I will just point out that they are what is controlling the crop regions for these area plans, so we have these already set up in the template. This is what I was talking about before, the dependent view.
So this is the parent view, and these are the dependent views on this parent. Each of these are set to each of these different scope boxes. So if you had, let's say, a high school campus or elementary school campus or something like that, you you would move these scope boxes to the appropriate locations. And all of these views that are already set up in the template, their crop regions would be already set. So you just need to move these scope boxes, and you don't need to fiddle with all of the views for all the disciplines.
So it's a time saving feature. However, we won't need that for this project, so we can delete those scope boxes. Now that won't delete the views. We're gonna take care of those in a second. Before we do that, we need to address the levels.