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thredge
2008-03-31, 10:14 PM
I am working on some details that were cut from the model. A few of these details, the model view has been rotated in the detail view from it's orginal orientation when the detail bubble was placed to cut the detail. When I try to copy text notes from one detail to another, it seems as though the rotated detail effects the default orientation of this text. Kind of like in AutoCAD if the UCS was turned a different way. When I copy the text it is, for instance right side up, and right justified. When i past it in, it turns to a 90 degree orientation so it is written from the bottom to top and readable from the right.

I looked a little, but wasn't able to find a setting for this default orientation as it were. With Revit being so 'intuitive' I thought that it would have typically just positioned text so it was the same orientation from one view to the next, regardless if you rotated the actual model.

As you can see, I'm still having some issues with the spacial environment and how these rotations etc...effect all items and how to change this.

Right now, I am just resulting to rotating al the text back right side up once I copy it into the view or just copying the contents of the text itself if I only have a note or two to bring over.

Any pointers would be appreciated, Thank you.

aggockel50321
2008-04-01, 12:56 PM
The text follows the view's orientation when pasted in, as would any detail lines, etc.

So you would have to manually rotate the text note back to horizontal.

thredge
2008-04-01, 01:52 PM
So, that was pretty much a No, there is no way to set a default orientation seperate from the orientation of the view?

Seems odd that if you went to the trouble to rotate the view that Revit doesn't realize you had selected an 'Up' direction. I mean you still get the choice to rotate the view when you place it on a sheet in the properties of the view on the sheet.

OK, just thought I would check, smarter way to work would have saved me some time. Thanks.