3D Room Section

One of the things that I liked about ArchiCAD was the ability to quickly create a 3d room section.

To achieve this in Revit:

• I create a Callout (View tab; Create panel; Callout).
• Open a default 3D view.
• Right-click on the View Cube. 
• Select Orient to View; Floor Plans, and choose the Callout view you just made. Your 3D view will automatically have a Section Box that matches the Crop Region of the Callout! 

This works really well unless you have a large number of views that you have to scroll through to find the one that you just created.

Another way - is the free COINS Auto-Section Box add-in available on Autodesk Exchange. Install the add-in, restart Revit, select a few objects then click the button. It will create a section box around those objects in the selected 3D view - very easy!

Download at:

Autodesk Exchange Apps