Creating and modifying a crop view

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We're looking at the level one floor plan view for an apartment block.

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We need to create a plan view showing each of the individual apartments.

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And to do this, we'll go to the view ribbon tab

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and from the create panel,

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we'll choose the duplicate view drop down

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and then pick duplicate with data in.

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And that will now give us a copy of the view,

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which will also keep the room tags as they are part of the detail in

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looking at the project browser. We can see we have the copied view here. So

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let's right, click over it and we'll choose rename

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and then we'll rename this to be apartment one.

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So apartment one will be the apartment at the top of the plan just here

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and we'll need to crop this view to show just this apartment.

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So going down to the view control bar here,

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we can see we have the toggle to crop the view.

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So I'll click on this.

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Now, looking at the properties palette,

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we can also see we have the crop view parameter here and that has now been enabled

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beneath this. I'll select the crop region visible

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and now on the view control bar, we can see that we have that toggle enabled as well.

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And in the view,

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we can now see the edge of the crop region. So let's zoom out a little bit.

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So we can see it all.

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And with it selected, we can see we now have these drag controls to adjust its size.

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So as we drag this up over the model,

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we can see the area outside of the crop region is no longer visible.

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And we can just use the other drag controls here to

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pull this in closer to the apartment that we need.

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So it's getting closer. Let's pull it in a little bit further.

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So it crops off more of the model here.

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And now we've done this,

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we can see that the room tags remain visible outside of the crop region.

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So going back to the properties panel here,

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we can see we have an option here for annotation crop

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and we select this

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and straight away, we can see that two of those tags have disappeared.

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And if I pick onto the crop region, now we can see we have an extra boundary

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which is the extent of the annotation crop.

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It means that any annotation that's outside of this will also be hidden.

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So to show this, if I drank this a little bit bigger

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at the bottom here and on the side,

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we can see those tags come back

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and now I'll drag it in a much closer.

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And now we can see all of those tanks have been hidden.

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And now looking at the view of the apartment,

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we can see it's quite vertical in its orientation and it

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would fit on our drawing sheet better if it was horizontal.

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So to do this, we'll rotate the crop region.

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So first we'll pick the crop region

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and then from the modify floor plan ribbon,

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we'll choose the rotate tool.

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And now we can see we have that center of

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rotation in the center of the crop region here.

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So we'll click to start rotating

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and I'll turn this clockwise and then enter 90 degrees.

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And then once we enter that,

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we can see that actually the view rotates

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anticlockwise by 90 degrees

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and the crop region stays in its same orientation.

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So now that we have that view rotated,

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we need to adjust the crop region to suit the apartment again.

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So let's use the drag controls here to crop this closer.

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I'll adjust the annotation crop once more just to

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turn off this room tag that's outside the view.

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Now, looking at the view here,

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we can see it also includes some of the stairs and also the elevator.

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And we'd like these to be cropped out of the view as well.

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So it just shows the apartment.

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So to do this, I'll pick on the crop region.

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And now from the modify floor plan ribbon here, we'll click to edit the crop.

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This now takes us into the edit profile mode for the crop region

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and we can see the boundary lines of the crop here.

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And on the ribbon, we have the draw tools.

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So I'll click pick lines

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and now we can pick on the outside edges

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of the walls around the boundary of the apartment

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to create new boundary lines for the crop region.

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And once we have all of those picked,

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we'll go to the modify ribbon tab here and choose trim

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extend to corner.

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And now we can just create the enclosed boundary that we

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need with the new lines and also the existing crop lines

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and

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that will leave us with one line at the end here, which we'd need to delete. So

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I'll pick it. And then from the modify ribbon here, we'll click the delete tool

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and then that finishes creating that crop

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boundary that we need around the apartment.

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So

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I'll click finish edit mode.

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And now we can see that view is cropped tightly around the shape of the apartment.

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So it's a little area here at the bottom.

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So we can still use the drag controls to drag

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it a little bit closer and crop out everything.

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And now we can still see the crop region.

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So let's go to the properties palette here

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and we'll deselect the crop region visible option

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so that it's no longer visible in the view.

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And then finally, we have a section marker. So I'll select this

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and then from the right click menu here, we'll choose hiding view category

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for that to be hidden in this particular view.