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62 | ChAPter 2 Applying the principles of the User interfAce And project orgAnizAtion

Finally, the extents of 3D views (even walkthroughs) may be customized with the use of
section boxes. You can find the Section Box option in the Properties palette for a 3D view. This
will allow you to control how much of the project is shown (Figure 2.60) and is helpful for
creating cutaway visualizations in real time or in renderings.

Figure 2.60
section box applied
to a 3d view

Once a section box is enabled in a 3D view, you can select it in order to stretch or rotate it
according to your needs. The section box is not considered a crop region, and therefore it is not
affected when you use the Crop Region Visible command. If you want to hide a crop region,
select it and then select Hide Elements from the View panel in the ribbon.

highlighting Project Management
Project management involves all the project settings that control (and therefore restrict) the
graphic information previously described in this chapter as relationships, repetition, and
representations. Returning to the organization chart in Figure 2.22, you’ll see that a Revit
project is managed with settings such as line styles, phasing, and view templates.

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