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2. Place the Scope Box#

Place Scope Box names the venue, then starts Revit's scope box tool.

Using the tool#

  1. Open a plan view in which scope boxes are visible. The command runs only in a plan view, and reports when scope boxes are hidden in the view or its view template.
  2. Click Place Scope Box in the Geometry panel.
  3. Enter a name for the venue and click Draw.
  4. Revit's scope box tool starts. Draw the box in plan around the room.
  5. Switch to a section or elevation and set the top and bottom.

The box drawn is given the venue name.

Placing a scope box

Sizing the box#

Size the box to the acoustic space plus a small margin. A box drawn too tightly clips surfaces; a box drawn much larger than the room increases capture time.

Extend the box above the acoustic volume

Take the top of the box above the acoustic volume of a venue, not to a suspended ceiling. Where the box stops at or below the ceiling, the ceiling is not captured and the room is left open at the top.

Changing the box#

A scope box is an ordinary Revit element. Resize it in any view and capture again.

The venue is tied to the box by position, not by name: the box belongs to the venue whose origin it contains. Renaming the box does not affect the venue.