Mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012

Editing Viewport Types

In the previous exercises, you might have noticed that the 3D views placed on the sheet displayed the default view title; however, we don't need the titles in this example. Revit stores options and properties related to the display of views on sheets as viewport types. Although the name conjures up memories of model space and paper space in AutoCAD, it is actually quite different. The viewport in Revit does not determine the scale or anything else about the view itself; rather, it simply sets the parameters for how a view sits on a sheet.

Let's examine how to customize viewport types by completing an exercise that continues the previous example of placing 3D views on a sheet:

1. Using the sheet with the two stacked 3D plan ...