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Skeeps

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angle of drawings
« on: October 06, 2008, 06:34:36 AM »
Forgive me I have a cold. So my heads a snotty mess.
but here's my problem, I've got two drawings they look at the same angle. Then I've created a third drawing and I xref my first two drawings in as I want this as my co-ordination drawing, they all line up correctly but are now at a different angle. I know that this is because how they appear in reality but I want to be able to edit them so I want the grid lines to be horizontal/vert as per the first two orignal drawings. Do I insert the xrefs and change the rotation as I insert them?

Or change the UCS?
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Alan Cullen

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Re: angle of drawings
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2008, 06:59:05 AM »
As you are well aware, Skeeps......I hate x-refs. But I'll try to help.

Have you tried going to the xref drawing (as a drawing) and rotating it to the same alignment as the main drawing? Then when you bring it in as an xref it should align correctly.
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Re: angle of drawings
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2008, 07:17:04 AM »
you hate xrefs?
oh, I'm not going to start you off on that one then Al.
The two xrefs are Ground Floor lighting layout and Ground floor Ventilation layout and if I look at the ceiling grid its horizontal and vertical. Perfect to work with. However when I xref them into my new drawing they both end up at an angle. Nacht Gut.

although your way would work, I'm using the ones I've xrefed as drawings themselves, so that would make them out.

I'm think I'm just going to rotate them as I insert them
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Re: angle of drawings
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2008, 10:09:37 AM »
It sounds like your UCS is twisted and set to view then you are xreffing your drawing into these with a different coordinate system. I'd mess around with the UCS before manually rotating the xrefs.
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Re: angle of drawings
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2008, 11:18:41 AM »
Might want to check out snapang and twist DVIEW to while you are at it.  I have to use these with UCS to undo the mess that Civil guys insist on doing to a perfectly orthogonal building foot print.  Why do they got to be so mean is beyond me.

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Re: angle of drawings
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2008, 11:22:35 AM »
A good indicator is the UCSICON.  Turn it on and you'll be able to see any discrepancy between the drawings.  If it's rotated in one and not the other, then there's your problem.
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Re: angle of drawings
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2008, 11:28:45 AM »
yeah UCS looked good on all. Basically because of time I had to just rotate the xref when inserting. I just hope it dosen't leap up to bite me in the ass later on.

Thanks for your help chaps, I've got more to do at a later date so i'll be checking back here soon.

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