Enlarging a part of a floor plan

[Anonymous]

I have a floor plan, and I'm trying to enlarge the bathroom, and add dimensions & details. How can I do that? Thank you for your help!

[Anonymous]

Thus is how I do it:

Open the view of the floor plan you want. Click the save current view button at the bottom of the navigator. In the dialog that opens, set the scale, and other settings as appropriate for your enlarged plan.

I would typically create a new layer combination called "enlarged plan", selecting what layers I want to see, turning off layers like the text used in the 1/4" plan and creating new layers, like "A-NOTES-PLAN-ENLARGED"

[Barry Kelly]

Some people use the detail or worksheet tools which work OK but are not true live views of the plan.
Personally I don't like that.
Here is a detailed explanation of the way I (and I think many others) do it.

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=34976

There is another method using a solid white fill that covers your floor plan with a hole in it that exposes the part of the floor plan you want to see enlarged.
Then you need new layers and layer combination for you large scale text and dimensioning (the white fill goes in one of these layers) and you have to juggle the display order to have everything it above or behind the fill depending on what you want to see.
I find the method I use easier.

Barry.