Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

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. 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. Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. On the view control bar click show crop region.

Click the first reference point. Click the second reference point on your building plan. I use a point on the right side of the base point. If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation.

Rotate plan view revit tip duration. You can see the dashed lines as your guide. Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate.

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. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other. This rotation only affects one particular view. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport.

When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region. 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 views in your project. How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial duration.

The crop region displays in the view. You may need to zoom out to see it. You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view.