Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

You can see the dashed lines as your guide.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region. If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation. You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view. Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

You may need to zoom out to see it. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. Select the crop region. 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.

Click the second reference point on your building plan. Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use. Click the first reference point. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other.

Rotate plan view revit tip duration. On the view control bar click show crop region. The crop region displays in the view. Experiment with the above process until you have created a sort of forced orthographic view but revit thinks it is a floor plan.

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. I use a point on the right side of the base point. How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial duration. 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.

Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other views in your project. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate.