Project starting in True North

[mylogs]

Hello,

On all foruns and tutorials projects always seem to start on the prefered orientation for working on the building (project north), and only later, the site is brought in and the true north adjusted.

However, on many occasions, when you start a project, you don't have yet/ don't know what the building orientation if going to be, so you start designing in true north first.

My question is: What is the recommended workflow to start project in true north, later rotating for the project north?

Thanks,

[bbeck]

I'd say it is extremely rare that on any project we know True North until Civil/Survey data is available. Perhaps on a site that we have previously worked on. If you know True North, just set the view property to True North and go to work. In general, setting True North also implies that you have aquired coordinates from Civil/Survey. I think your concept of True North and Project North is backwards. We start designing in Project North. This is why the defaults in Revit template views are Project North.