Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

Experiment with the above process until you have created a sort of forced orthographic view but revit thinks it is a floor plan. Rotating the viewport however by selecting one of these options will rotate the viewport as if it was just an image which might lead to wrong dimension orientations making the plans hard to read. Depending on what you need to show in your view use either the highest level or 1st floor plan and change the view range for either method set the height above the tallest point of the building and you view depth bottom to a level that shows what you need. Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other. When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region. Rotate plan view revit tip duration. You can see the dashed lines as your guide.

Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use. You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other views in your project.

Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane. Select the crop region. Click the first reference point. The crop region displays in the view.

This rotation only affects one particular view. How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial duration. Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. On the view control bar click show crop region.

In architecture school we referred to these as colliding grids this colliding of two grids occurs in many building plans and seems to be on the increase. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate. I use a point on the right side of the base point.