Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

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.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use. 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. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other. Rotate plan view revit tip duration.

Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. The crop region displays in the view. Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane.

While working on a residence in revit i wondered what is the best way to handle a portion of the plan where the walls are all rotated 30 degrees from the main part of the house. On the view control bar click show crop region. Click the second reference point on your building plan. Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate. 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. You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view.

You can see the dashed lines as your guide. I use a point on the right side of the base point. Select the crop region. When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region.

Click the first reference point. How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial duration. You may need to zoom out to see it.