Rotate Project North Woes

[davidcobi]

We have a site model with a building linked into it. The building is at a slight angle to true north and project north was already defined. The problem is that the building has rotated 2.5 degrees which means we have to rotate project north 2.5 degrees so the building is orthogonal to our project north views again. Everytime I try I get 240 errors and Revit asks to delete dimensions.

Also, it appears that the Rotate Project North command rotates all model objects and annotations. Does it rotate relative to the origin? The reason I ask is because the building appears to get displaced in the process.

We could just rotate the crop region 2.5 degrees in all our views, but it would be preferable to actually rotate project north without my building getting displaced on the site. Any input would be great! Thanks.

[wmullett]

I hope you are not rotating the model....no reason to.

[davidcobi]

I'm trying to use the Rotate Project North command and I'm just having some difficulty with it. I never intended to rotate the model objects manually.

[nancy.mcclure]

Hmm, we advocate creating the site model in True North, creating the building models in Project North, link in and rotate as needed, so perhaps I'm imaging a different scenario, but if you have a (assuming True North oriented) site file with the building linked into it, you only need to rotate the linked building model, then save the new location?

[davidcobi]

Hmm, we advocate creating the site model in True North, creating the building models in Project North, link in and rotate as needed, so perhaps I'm imaging a different scenario, but if you have a (assuming True North oriented) site file with the building linked into it, you only need to rotate the linked building model, then save the new location?

We do all that. The problem is that we have a main building that has a project north several degrees off of true north and we have views setup in the site model that are oriented project north for the benefit of this one main building. When we try to Rotate Project North for the benefit of this one building we get a lot of errors, mentioned above.

[nancy.mcclure]

So, you are rotating in the site file, and the errors are associated to dims placed for site documentation. Yes, I've seen that when the rotation isn't a clean 90*. I think this may be from dims created as 'linear' rather than 'aligned', perhaps because they want to hold orientation on the view, rather than rotate with the element? You might need to resort to rotating the viewports, to minimize loss of your annotations, at this point.

[patricks]

How about this: rotate the building link AND the site by 2.5 degrees, then adjust true north in the site model by the same amount?

Just throwing that out there, not sure if that would work without testing.