RevitCat: New in Revit 2019

One of the new features in Revit 2019 is the ability to see Levels in 3D views.

Personally I don’t like this enhancement!  Yes, I know that occasionally someone might have valid reasons to see a level in 3D, but I don’t think it is worth the pain it will inevitably cause around the world over the next few years!
I can foresee levels being accidentally moved, copied and having their model extents inadvertently changed on a regular basis.

Reasons why I don’t like it:

Cropping View Extents vs Model Extents

  • The grip handles for levels in a 3D view are typically model grip handles (a circle), not view grip handles (a dot).  It is not possible to adjust just the 2D view extents when levels are  uncropped in the view – so any changes you make to the levels will affect the model extents and therefore many other views. 
  • When I say ‘uncropped levels’ in a 3D view, I don’t mean uncropped by the ‘View Crop Region’ because that has no particular relevance to levels in 3D – they just…

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