Did I mess up project north?

[petervanko]

We have been investigating massing on a campus that is about 45 degrees +/- off of true north. I have been just allowing this geometry to be what it was, figuring I could establish a project north later. To make it harder, the campus is being linked (via shared coordinates) into the building project so we could try some different options. I have about 20 views in the building project, and now that we have chosen a scheme, how can I best establish project north although the views all are set to project north and painstakingly set into the hilly site? Am I coming in too late, and will have to manually rotate each view's crop region individually? Or, will I need to rotate the whole site plan in a view designated Project North (in VP)? But then it will want me to publish coordinates, right?!? Help :)

[sbrown]

Leave your site model alone, then create sep. projects for each building in the campus. Then those you will have set up orthagonal and do your detail drawings for each building in those files. Then you can link the building models back into your site model, place them, and share the coordinates back to each building model.

[petervanko]

I understand the file setup portion (dropping the campus buildings into the site), I just am a little uneasy about how to establish an orthogonal project north for each one of those buildings. Presently they are all drawn relative to true north...

Is it as simple as rotating their individual scope boxes a known angle?

[aaronrumple]

I understand the file setup portion (dropping the campus buildings into the site), I just am a little uneasy about how to establish an orthogonal project north for each one of those buildings. Presently they are all drawn relative to true north...

Is it as simple as rotating their individual scope boxes a known angle?
Unfortunatly Revit want's you to draw the building plan north first and then set up project north. And the file only supports one plan north per project. You'll have to rotate each view for the sheet.

[petervanko]

Thanks! I was afraid of that...

So how are you all doing campus planning, etc. with a shared coordinate campus topo?

[sbrown]

You make each building a sep file drawn orthagonally, then link that into the site plan(which is true north) then publish the coordinates back to the original Then your original file with automatically have the true north setting under view properties.

[petervanko]

Gotcha!!! Thanks!

[Wes Macaulay]

If you've drawn up all your plans oriented to true north, you could use scope boxes to rotate them all to orthagonal, or reverse-rotate the crop regions.

[modulor]

If you've drawn up all your plans oriented to true north, you could use scope boxes to rotate them all to orthagonal, or reverse-rotate the crop regions.
I never knew that you could rotate views before! Use the 'rotate' command, what a concept! I had been looking for something like "rotate UCS" this whole time, and cursing the ridiculous True/Project North tool.

Erik