Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

Click the second reference point on your building plan. You can see the dashed lines as your guide. If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation. This rotation only affects one particular view.

Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use. Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane. 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.

Select the crop region. Experiment with the above process until you have created a sort of forced orthographic view but revit thinks it is a floor plan. You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view. 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.

The crop region displays in the view. When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region. I use a point on the right side of the base point. Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

Rotate plan view revit tip duration. 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 the first reference point. 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. You may need to zoom out to see it. 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.