Control Visibility of Datums Using Scope Boxes

Use a scope box to specify the views in which the datum elements will display.

Video: Create and Use Scope Boxes

When you add datum elements (grids, levels, and reference lines) to a project, they can display in more views than desired. For example, when you add grid lines to a plan view, the grid lines display in all plan views of the model. However, you may want the grid lines to display in only certain views.

Scope boxes control the visibility of datum elements in views whose cutting plane intersects the scope box. Scope boxes are particularly useful to control the visibility of datums that are not parallel or orthogonal to a view.

Example

To use scope boxes to control datum elements

  1. Create one or more scope boxes.
  2. Apply a scope box to datum elements (grid lines, levels, or reference planes).
  3. (Optional) Apply a scope box to desired views.
  4. Note: You cannot use this feature on Multi-Segment grids as they do not have a Scope Box instance property.