Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane.

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. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other views in your project. Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use. Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

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. Click the first reference point. Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. Click the second reference point on your building plan.

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. The crop region displays in the view. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate.

This rotation only affects one particular view. How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial duration. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view.

Select the crop region. I use a point on the right side of the base point. You may need to zoom out to see it. Experiment with the above process until you have created a sort of forced orthographic view but revit thinks it is a floor plan.

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. You can see the dashed lines as your guide. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other.