# Creating a Revit Section from a Rectangle or Plane

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Tags:** windows, rhinoinsiderevit\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005 "2022-05-24T23:48:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![christopher.pires](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/christopher.pires/32/499346_2.png) [@christopher.pires](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/christopher.pires)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/1 "2022-05-24T23:48:45Z")

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Is it possible to be able to create sections with RhinoInsideRevit from a Plane or Rectangle?

The Plane Z direction will be the direction of the section to be Cut.

The Rectangle to be set for the zone of the section to be Cut.

Then maybe to be able to change the section depth (Far Clip Offset) & Section Name.  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/2/b/b/2bb33b514d38233fb982451f4d711d7158677a8e.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/3/9/b/39b0695865958fa328b1677e9b061e0e8403249e.png)

Project Example you might have 100+ Columns that would need a section cut onto the column face or you might have a concrete core wall of a tower that would need wall sections of each face.

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**Author:** ![Japhy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/japhy/32/487647_2.png) [@Japhy](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Japhy)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/2 "2022-05-25T02:45:28Z")

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Hi Christopher,

These are the extent of the view components at the moment.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/2/8/d/28de19c0c0d3f3a69766a26af7650117e04c8a70.png)

Creating a section view with a python or c# is possible. RevitApi create section is looking for a bounding box for creation, like so.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/3/f/3/3f39081b2c86915e5aa73aa4f1ca12f6925ecde2.png)  
[CreateSection.gh](https://discourse.mcneel.com/uploads/short-url/oQxHS7DnRD1Fqc7G7xTJ9yUfCCr.gh) (8.8 KB)

Orienting correctly programmatically is a little more complex.

> **[Create Section View Parallel to Wall](https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/create-section-view-parallel-to-wall.html)**
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> Here is a nice case that just came up and helped me heal my latent view manipulation phobia. Before getting to that, a short pointer to a non-API issue: The Shanghai Tower is currently being built to become one of the tallest and greenest buildings...

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**Author:** ![christopher.pires](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/christopher.pires/32/499346_2.png) [@christopher.pires](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/christopher.pires)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/3 "2022-05-25T03:32:27Z")

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Nice thanks @Japhy.

Noticed if I change the Plane of the Boundary Box to the Element that I would like to create a section of would change the direction of the section.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/6/1/2/612e0c5610e9ce271b69448c494a3663fcba90b1.png)

This process will now work to generate all sections in the correct direct if the plane of the bounding box is set correct.

This script only creates a new section & wont update a section :(. So once created you cant change it in the script.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Ma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jack_ma/32/687037_2.png) [@Jack\_Ma](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Jack_Ma)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/4 "2024-05-07T10:05:50Z")

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How can I generate a plan view? Because I want to see the elevation tags, and I can’t filter out these indexed section views in the plan view.

 ![273a21e63eb7119f772f0d6b0ff88e1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/9/b/e/9be7e8259879d8a250598277ebd8b5e90b8830e0.png)  
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**Author:** ![Japhy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/japhy/32/487647_2.png) [@Japhy](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Japhy)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/5 "2024-05-07T19:37:27Z")

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You can hide those per view by creating a View Filter in the Callouts Category.

Create a View Family and Type or a custom parameter to turn off those specific Callouts.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/a/5/b/a5b2448e5c0af705fb9a4797beeb88dd570efcca.png)

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Ma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jack_ma/32/687037_2.png) [@Jack\_Ma](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Jack_Ma)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/6 "2024-05-08T02:37:58Z")

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Thank you. The second issue is resolved, but I still can’t place or see existing elevation tags in the generated section view. Also, the positioning of this view seems to be problematic.

 ![8ff58213aedd794b7ea637e2e15b3e9](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/6/e/1/6e1fc79cec83fd036a1607b2a67f2f96717db726.png)

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**Author:** ![Japhy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/japhy/32/487647_2.png) [@Japhy](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Japhy)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-a-revit-section-from-a-rectangle-or-plane/143005/7 "2024-05-10T13:05:11Z")

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Here is my guess.

> [@The elevation mark cannot be seen in Detail views](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/the-elevation-mark-cannot-be-seen-in-detail-views/181806/2):
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> What scale are the elevations set to be hidden at? I’m guessing its #14