Revit Angles with sneaky decimal places

[michelleo]

Does anyone know if there is a way to lock angles or automatically round them to the nearest whole number when drawing them? We've had some issues with our buildings where we think the angle of the building is 30 degrees and then we find out when we're at 75% completion that its actually at 30.42 or 90.00025. It messes up the building alignment and gives us warnings.

[sbrown]

Sounds like you started with a cad file???? I've had that issue in cad. Revit you should NEVER have your dims set to rounding. You can hold down shift when you draw and that will keep things "ortho" But typically revit snaps to the increments you have set, so set all your angle snaps and that should not happen unless you have a cad underlay and are tracing it, which is a huge no,no.

[Brian Myers]

Not really. This sounds more like a process issue than a Revit one. In other words, instead of "eye balling" the angle, if it was actually typed in then it should be exact.

Also, if appropriate, setting your Project North at the proper angle (if the entire building is shifted that degree angle) may help with this as well.

http://www.revitzone.com/revit-fundamentals/114-project-north-versus-true-north