Rotating a plan.

[formarch.70565]

I imported a cad site plan with "true north" toward the top of the page and generated a Revit topography and property lines. True North and Plan North are the same direction. The building fits on the site at some odd angle and I wish to draft it orthogonally and so it appears that the site plan needs to be rotated to orientate the building in a workable position. Unfortunately, when the site is rotated with the rotate command, the property lines will not because they have meets and bounds.

It appears that Revit wanted the building started in the orthogonal position and then the site added later so it could be rotated to true north not the site created first in the correct position and then the building rotated.

Is there a way to draft the building in the orthogonal position even if the site plan has all ready been created with True North and Plan North being is the same position?

Thanks

[jeff.95551]

The only recommendation I've got is to do a save-as, erase the site from one file and the building from the other. Then build the building by itself and link it into the other file, which is where you will build the construction documents. I've seen some very well done blogs and tutorials on this. We've started doing this in every project, even when everything seems very orthagonal, just for the ability to deal with the building as an object.

Good Luck

[blads]

Steve Stafford had a great answer in this thread (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=60059) perhaps adopting the same procedures will resolve your issues.

[formarch.70565]

Thanks, the blog reference was helpful.