Applying view breaks - Revit Tutorial

- [Instructor] In this video, I want to talk about using View Breaks. Now View Breaks can be used for a couple reasons. What they are is a means to take the crop region around a view and actually break it into multiple sections. So if we Select the crop region, we've seen these controls at the edges which just allow you to reshape the crop region, but there's also these other controls in-between the corners and those control handles at the middle that allow you to create View Breaks. Now we can do that either horizontally or vertically. Once you've established a View Break, you can create more than one, but they all have to go in the same direction, so it's either horizontal or vertical, but not both. What this allows me to do is to either remove repetitive areas in a detail that we don't want to show, or otherwise reduce the size of that detail so that it'll maybe fit better on a sheet, things like that. So, let's start by opening up a Sheet where this View is going to go, so I'm going to Expand the Sheets branch, and then double-click A8 Wall Sections, and then I'll scroll back up here and take my Typical Wall Section and drag and drop it onto this Sheet and I'll go ahead and place it right here, and, as you can see, it doesn't quite fit. So the easiest solution to this problem is to add some View Breaks. Now, you can go back to your Typical Wall Section view here, or you can stay right in the Sheet and activate the view, and I think in this case that'll be the better way to do it because then we'll be able to see the Title Block in the background as we work and we'll know whether or not we're fitting better. So, to activate the View, you can either double-click right in the Viewport, or you can Select it and right click, there's even a button here, so there's lots of ways to get there. I'll just simply double-click into that Viewport. So now I'm back in my Typical Wall Section View but you could see the title block ghosted in in the background there. Now, as I said, we're going to select the crop region here and then just simply use these little View Break icons here, on the edges, to crop out that middle chunk of the detail. You'll see that initially, it leaves a very large gap in the middle, but now you have Control handles on each all sides of each broken area. What I'm going to do is just stretch this down until it shows me the ceiling, and that's going to be the upper portion of my detail, and then, this one, I'm going to stretch it up until it goes just above the floor slab, here. What I'm doing is cropping out, let me zoon in here, I'm cropping out this window, because if this is going to be a Typical Wall Section detail, then I don't want to show the window because not every part of the wall contains a window, so we can do a separate detail for the window somewhere else, so in this particular case, cropping out the window is appropriate because I'm only interested in the typical wall construction. Once I've removed that window area in that sort of redundant part of the detail, then you'll notice there's another control in the middle of each region that is a little arrow, and that allows you to actually drag the entire region. So you can use this to move these things closer together, and thereby crop out the piece that you've eliminated. You can see that I'm really close now, I just about fit on the sheet, so if I want to remove some more of the redundant area of this foundation wall, I can simply add another View Break. And so once again, make adjustments to the height of each area, to show the part that I want to see, and then just slide them a little bit closer together. So now if I zoom back out, you can see that this detail fits better on the sheet and I now have these three broken areas here. Now if you ever need to remove this, and put it back together, it's as simple as taking the grips here and snapping them to one another, that will actually remove the View break and kind of merge it back together. Let me Undo that with Control Z, or you can do the same thing by using this little arrow and putting them back together that way. You'll get the same message and the same thing will occur, and again I'll do Control Z to undo that. So I'm just going to click anywhere to dismiss that warning. So it's real easy to not only create the View Breaks but to remove them if necessary. So the final finishing touch that I want to do here now, in this View, is add some break lines. So the boundary line here around the crop region, typically want that hidden, so if I come down here to the bottom of the screen, I can do Hide Crop Region. You can also get there on the Properties palette by unchecking Crop Region Visible. You could leave it like that, if that appeals to you, to have it shown that way, but sometimes it's nice to have a little break line symbol there. We've seen that previously, that's just a simple 2D detail component, so on the Annotate tab, I'll go to the drop down here for Components, choose Detail Component, come over to the Properties palette, open the Type Selector, and then in the Search field, I'll just start searching for the word break, I'll find my Break Line Component, bring that in and you need to place it kind of within the view, so I'm going to place it so it's just inside of the View there, and the Mask is going to go in one direction or the other, so I'm just going to place two of these here and then I'll take this one and just tap the Space bar a couple times to rotate that around so that the Mask is pointing in to the broken area. Then, to complete this, I just simply Zoom back out and use the Control Handles here to stretch this out the full width of the View, and I'll do that for both of these Break symbols. And then I will repeat that to add two Break lines here. And then when you're finished, it should look something like this, and as a final step just right-click anywhere, and choose Deactivate View and that completes the View Breaks and makes sure that your detail will now fit comfortably on the Sheet.