can't sketch on elevation

[DoTheBIM]

Somewhere along the lines I lost the ability to sketch detail lines in elevation and some sections. Doing an audit hasn't helped. Is there a view property setting that I'm missing. If I go to try to set a workplane it says not associated, which is correct according to other projects. If I show workplane it shows the blue dashed lines as if the workplane is set parallel to the view which should be correct. according to other projects we have. If I create a new view, workplane is set to none and I get a prompt to create on if I try to show it... which I assume that's all for model lines anyway. When I go to sketch detail lines on a problem view I get "Can't draw because Work Plane is at a very sharp angle in this view. Go to another view or redefine the Work Plane." My work around is to sketch on the floor plan and paste to elevation.... but I can't edit anything with what I've pasted then either

[Wes Macaulay]

When views go south -- badly -- I recreate the view and copy over annotations to the new view...

[saeborne]

I've had this problem before... The cause was the following sequence of events:

Long time ago, I created the South Elevation view.

At some point, more recently, team decided to orient the plans in a different direction... Either with the True North / Project North setting, or perhaps rotating the crop window, I don't recall.

The plan rotation essentially broke all of my elevation views. Each elevation "thinks" it rotated as well, but in fact, the actual view plane is still oriented in the old direction. So revit freaks out because it can't draw on the skinny end of a view plane.

So yes, the solution is exactly what Wes said. Select / Copy the annotation, create a new elevation view, past-aligned, Delete the old elevation view.

Hope this helps.

[DoTheBIM]

I've had this problem before... The cause was the following sequence of events:

Long time ago, I created the South Elevation view.

At some point, more recently, team decided to orient the plans in a different direction... Either with the True North / Project North setting, or perhaps rotating the crop window, I don't recall.

The plan rotation essentially broke all of my elevation views. Each elevation "thinks" it rotated as well, but in fact, the actual view plane is still oriented in the old direction. So revit freaks out because it can't draw on the skinny end of a view plane.

So yes, the solution is exactly what Wes said. Select / Copy the annotation, create a new elevation view, past-aligned, Delete the old elevation view.

Hope this helps.You hit the nail on the head. This is for my template file, so I just rotated the views 90 deg and magically I can sketch again. I could of recreated but I really wanted to know what happened. And I remember going and setting the north at some point in all my views be consistant and I'm sure that's what happened. But yes if there where much annotation on the views it would be just as easy to recreate new ones, and copy paste as needed, reapply view templates. Thanks for the help

[Wes Macaulay]

Huh -- thanks for the clue as to why this could happen, and the fix for it!