Rotating Project North

[mibzim]

There is a nice and easy "rotate true north", but what happens if i want to rotate the project north to get my views to look different on the sheet? Where is the tool to do that? Surely its a reasonable thing to want to do?

Ok, so there are a couple of ways to do this, but man, its just too difficult for my liking!

Firstly, i could rotate the entire building, every section, callout, imported cad file and detail items from every view. Then i would need to go back and rotate true north coz it would now be wrong. Easy for a small building, but a nightmare half way through a 12 story office building!

Other option is to rotate each view by reverse-rotating its crop region, but i really dont like doing this because if i get it even slightly wrong i end up with all sorts of "walls not aligned" errors and such like. On a 12 story building i would have to do it 12 times... and remember to do it for new views. Probably the easy option, but i still dont like it.

Am i the only one with this problem? Does anybody else have any fresh ideas? Is there a tool i've missed? Or could somebody who has some authority PLEASE get this fixed up for us? Please?

[JPTrehen]

Hi,

Specially when you have multiple building on the same site I think that Linked Project could be a method that you could try. you will manage places and coordinates for each one and the north for the global project only.
In that process you could create sheets very easy for each one and create global sheets for all the project without alerts.

Regards.

[mibzim]

Yup, i know about that one, but this is a stand alone building.

So... no ideas anyone?

[sbrown]

I'm not sure why you have a problem rotating the crop region. thats the way I do it and besides it being backwards it should have no bearing on your wall alignment, its just a view port. If you have angled wings of your building make sure you set up a couple ref. planes to use for alignment at the same angle as you building wing and a scope box helps too. I also then turn on my blue workplane grid and rotate it so when I draw revit snaps to it.

[Chirag Mistry]

Yup, i know about that one, but this is a stand alone building.

So... no ideas anyone?Mibzim, please check your PM

[patricks]

Rotating crop regions is the correct way to do it so that you retain correct project and true north orientations. And it's not really "reverse" rotating if you think for a minute about what happens when you rotate the crop region.