Rotating A Floor Plan In Revit Video

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.

Rotating a floor plan in revit video.

Now you can see the floor plan is rotated. On the view control bar click show crop region. Select the crop region. Click modify tabmodify panel rotate.

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. This rotation only affects one particular view. Rotate the floor plan away from the horizontal plane.

Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other. Click the first reference point. Selecting a viewport on a sheet revit offers 3 options for rotating the viewport. Click the second reference point on your building plan.

I use a point on the right side of the base point. Start the rotate command in the section or elevation view. The crop region displays in the 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. Here is a short video of how to rotate a revit plan view without messing up the other views in your project. 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. Experiment with the above process until you have created a sort of forced orthographic view but revit thinks it is a floor plan.

How to jazz up floor plan graphics in revit tutorial duration. Rotate plan view revit tip duration. You may need to zoom out to see it.