For clarity, all model elements are set to halftone. To make adjustments, a 'Scope Boxes' view has been set up where you can move & stretch or delete them as needed. The new tool is also quite handy when used in combination with a Scope Box. It just requires us to select something and it will open the default 3D view and turn on the Section Box to match the extents of the selected element (s). Apply a Scope Box to Datums To control the visibility of datum elements in a scope box, you must associate each datum element with the scope box. I keep forgetting about the new Selection Box tool. After a scope box is created, you can change its size and position in a 3D view. The choice to use 4 areas was based on our typical project size, but if fewer are needed, they can easily be deleted. Revit 2016 - Selection Box and Scope Box. Some of the scope boxes currently set up are Overall for 1/16" views, and areas A, B, C & D for 1/8" views. Consultants will appreciate this as well since our scope boxes would otherwise show up in their model & views as well. In Revit 2021, you can directly assign the desired scope box to a view in the. You can even reorder them if not already done. Note The Scope Box tool is activated only in the plan view and it is view. The app is fast, very fast and within 2 seconds the job can be done. Version 1.0 needed a little tweak, I admit (not-loaded Revit Links were the issue). They could even be added to their own workset that’s invisible in all views. No need to open any linked Revit model to review them Scope Boxes, just use the app and you're all done. Often, they are one of the first things to get deleted from a project because “I didn’t want to see those red boxes.” As a result, we have now turned off scope boxes in all our view templates. It’s not always easy to get people to use scope boxes. Changing the size of a scope box will change the size of all views accordingly. A scope box can control the size of several views at once and makes sure they all match each other in size. Our template already has a lot of views created, which makes it easy at the beginning of a project, but a lot of work to adjust the crop boxes of all these views… if it weren't for scope boxes.