Topic: UCS rotated, Dimensions and Hatches affected?

[CAB]

Incase anyone is interested, here are my rotate UCS buttons.
Create your own icons.

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**CAB_MY_UCS
**TB_CAB_MY_UCS
ID_CAB_My_UCS_0 [_Toolbar("CAB My UCS", _Floating, _Hide, 309, 152, 1)]
ID__33         [_Button("UCS World", "ICON8115.bmp", "ICON_16_BLANK")]^C^C-view;top;
ID__30         [_Button("UCS Right Elevation", "ICON2109.bmp", "ICON_16_BLANK")]^C^Cdview;;tw;-90;;_ucs;w;_ucs;z;90;
ID__31         [_Button("UCS Left", "ICON7228.bmp", "ICON_16_BLANK")]^C^Cdview;;tw;90;;_ucs;w;_ucs;z;270;
ID__32         [_Button("UCS Back", "ICON3876.bmp", "ICON_16_BLANK")]^C^Cdview;;tw;180;;_ucs;w;_ucs;z;180;

[Krushert]

The dim align command blows IMO

Krushert, not many people know how easy it is to do a rotated dimension, and these are precisely the ones you need when the dimaligned ones blow.
Start the DIMLINEAR command.-enter
Pick the 2 points
Type R to get into the rotated option.-enter
Pick any 2 points that are paralell to the line you want
Drag your dim to where you want.
Practice this for 5 mins and it becomes very fast.

Cool.  Thanks Bryco.  I did not know that yesterday.

Could you please post this tip in the Things I Wish I Knew Yesterday! Some one else might benefit from it. 

Learn something new every day.  Thanks 

[Robb]

I actually like the idea of rotating the UCS to view/draw each side... this way you only have a single plan referenced once! and not a plan for each elevation. The reason I don't do it this way (UCS Rotate) is dimensions and hatches get screwy and I don't like xclipping each elevation. We draw mostly everything in modelspace entities/dims/anootation so drawing it this way seems to be causing some guys a big headache. Matchprop does not set the dimensions and hatches correctly. It seems that whichever UCS they were drawn on it adopts its settings.

Robb,

You can always draw the elevations this way and then rotate them all properly as they would be displayed on a sheet and then dimension them and add hatches and notes then.

Thanks, thats what I've been doing and what I've recommended the guy who draws like this to do also.

[Bryco]

I prefer to make the plan a block,
Copy and rotate it for each elevation
then xclip it to the right size, if the elevations show the plan needs to change a refedit fixes it up.