**Example**: A user is reviewing scan data around a building entrance. The full point cloud also contains the street, parked vehicles, neighboring facade areas, and scan points behind the entrance zone. Before checking the entrance geometry against the model, the user creates a clipping section around the entrance. The view becomes easier to read because only the relevant scan points remain visible, while the surrounding context can still be restored later by returning to All Points in the clipping manager.
A clipping section is created by drawing shapes on the active view. You choose a clipping tool, draw a region on screen, and Qbitec projects that region through the visible point cloud. The resulting section is applied to the point cloud display. By default, points inside the drawn region remain visible and points outside it are hidden. If the operation is inverted, the drawn region becomes the part that is removed instead. [](https://qbitec.com/kb/uploads/images/gallery/2026-08/image.png) Clipping tools inside the Qbitec ribbon of Qbitec for Autodesk Revit Clipping is not limited to a single operation. You can create several sections one after another to refine the result. Consecutive clipping operations narrow the visible set, which is useful when a region must be isolated from more than one view direction. Existing Revit view restrictions, such as a section box or view range, are respected and become part of the effective clipping definition. Saved clipping regions are stored in the Revit project so they can be reused later. # Creating Clipping Regions Qbitec provides three drawing tools for creating clipping sections: Fence, Window, and Circle. The best choice depends on the shape of the area you want to keep or remove.During creation, view navigation such as zoom, pan, and orbit is temporarily disabled until the clipping operation is completed. This keeps the drawn screen geometry consistent with the view direction used for the projection.
| Button | Function | Purpose |
|  | Draw fence | Creates a polygonal clipping section from three or more points |
|  | Draw window | Creates a rectangular clipping section from two opposite corners. |
|  | Draw circle | Creates a circular clipping section from two diameter points. |
**Example**: To isolate an irregular main building footprint, the user first sets up a suitable top or 3D view and chooses Fence. They click around the visible outline of the building, remove a misplaced vertex with **BACKSPACE**, and confirm the polygon with **ENTER**. From another view direction, they add a Window section to remove scan points above the relevant floor range. Later, a circular area around a column can be kept with Circle, or removed by holding **SHIFT** on the first diameter point when the column scan should be excluded from the result.
# Managing, Saving & Combining Regions The Qbitec tab contains the following button to manage clipped regions and combine them: [](https://qbitec.com/kb/uploads/images/gallery/2026-08/SjTimage.png) This dialog is the central place for switching between saved regions, restoring the full point cloud, saving the current clipping result, combining regions, and deleting regions that are no longer needed. #### Dialog elements The dialog consists of the following parts: [](https://qbitec.com/kb/uploads/images/gallery/2026-08/zr2image.png)| Number | Name | Purpose |
| 1 | Header row | Toggle sort direction by clicking a header row |
| 2 | Show all points | Deactivate all clipped regions and show all points |
| 3 | Index | Stable index ordered by the time point of creation |
| 4 | Region names | Names of the regions. Double-click the name to edit |
| 5 | Delete region | Removes a region from the list and the project |
| 6 | Multi-select | Switch the dialog to a multi-select state to combine regions |
| 7 | Save | Saves the current regions to a new list entry |
Clear names are important when several team members work with the same Revit project or when a project accumulates many focused regions over time.
To save a region, first create the clipping result you want. This can be a single Window, Fence, or Circle section, or it can be a refined result built from several consecutive operations. Then open the manager and save the current view as a new region. The saved region is stored in the Revit project and remains available across sessions. [](https://qbitec.com/kb/uploads/images/gallery/2026-08/LOaimage.png) #### Combining regions Regions can also be combined. When **Multi-select** is enabled, multiple saved regions can be active at the same time. In that mode, selected saved regions are combined with an OR relation: points are visible if they are inside any selected region. This is useful for showing several separate areas together, such as a main building and an outbuilding, without merging them into one manually drawn boundary. [](https://qbitec.com/kb/uploads/images/gallery/2026-08/gGMimage.png) Delete removes a saved clipping region from the project. The delete button is available for regular saved regions, but not for All Points. Deleting a region does not delete point cloud data; it only removes the stored clipping definition. Before deleting shared project regions, make sure the region is no longer needed by other workflows or team members.**Example**: A user isolates the main building with several Fence operations and saves the result as "Main Building". They then select All Points to restore the full cloud, isolate the bike shed as a separate area, and save that result as "Bike Shed". Later, when both areas must be shown together, the user enables **Multi-select**, selects both saved regions, and saves the combination as "Main Building with Bike Shed". If an older temporary region is no longer useful, they delete it from the manager; the point cloud data itself remains unchanged.