Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view.

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 views in your project. Experiment with the above process until you have created a sort of forced orthographic view but revit thinks it is a floor plan. Click the second reference point on your building plan. 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.

This rotation only affects one particular view. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other. When you rotate a view using the crop region the model rotates in the opposite direction of the crop region. You can see the dashed lines as your guide.

I use a point on the right side of the base point. Click the first reference point. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane.

You can make one by duplicating any floor plan view. Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use. 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. You may need to zoom out to see it.

Select the crop region. 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. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate.

Now you can see the floor plan is rotated. On the view control bar click show crop region. If the rotate tool is not available in the properties palette for the view set orientation.