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Wouldn't this be a typical use case for this tool? I think I understand what you're saying in terms of knowing which crop regions match. Now you'll have a set of plans for each area (dimension plans, furniture & equipment, etc.) and you want to keep gridline extents coordinated between each area. Say you have a building and you split in in 4 areas. So if programmers assumed that using this tool on cropped views would be an exception, it really should be more of a rule I think. In my limited experience, I've always found that most plan views are cropped, even overall plans.
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I think it’s time to dedicate some manpower to get it fixed. To me this seemingly trivial tool is so good that it’s a shame it doesn’t work properly. Re-enable the crop regions in the affected views.Select the datums, click the Propagate Extents button on the Ribbon, pick your views and finish the command.Disable the Crop Region in the view that contains the 2D extents you want to propagate, and also in the views you want to propagate to.There is a workaround for this problem and it’s annoying if you have a lot of views to work with: Since this is a view-specific edit, the use of the Propagate Extents tool will then help you push these changes to all the other views you pick. In this case you add an elbow by clicking the little in-canvas symbol and make necessary adjustments to your view, perhaps even shifting the datum’s end point. Let’s say you have grids or levels close to each other and the text overlaps. But there’s a catch: for some reason this functionality is broken when it comes to views that have a crop region enabled and when the datum’s 3D extents go beyond this crop region. The idea is that when you change the extents from 3D to 2D, you can then propagate these custom 2D extents to other views. It’s not a button that is always there, but one that appears when you select a datum, such as a grid or a level. This tool is not widely known, possibly due to discoverability. How long do bugs take to be resolved? Well, sadly in some cases the answer is “more than 5 years”.