Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

This rotation only affects one particular view. How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial 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. Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use.

I use a point on the right side of the base point. You can see the dashed lines as your guide. 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 make one by duplicating any floor plan view.

Click the second reference point on your building plan. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. On the view control bar click show crop region. Click the first reference point.

Click modify tabmodify panel rotate. The crop region displays in the view. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other views in your project. Rotate plan view revit tip duration.

When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region. You may need to zoom out to see it. Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane. 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.

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. Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation.