Topic: Rotate Viewport?

[craigr]

We often get CAD Files from Outside Contractors. We only use the 'Floor Plans' of the site.

We always draw on a 11x17 Title Block. Because of this, we sometimes need to rotate the area of the building so that it best fits the 11x17.

I have 'played' with the rotate Viewport function in CAD a few times, but it keeps wanting to rotate our QLeaders as well which of course we don't want. So, instead of rotating the Viewport, we Rotate the Entire Building - which I HATE having to do.

I am at a point that I am ready to start 'Playing' with the Rotate Viewport again. So, do any of you know of the setting I need to keep our QLeaders from rotating also?

craigr

[Rob...]

I'm not sure what you are looking for can be done to an existing drawing.

If this is for a new drawing, instead of rotating the building you can rotate your view of the building using the TWIST option in DVIEW (if it is available in LT). Then rotate your UCS the inverse of the angle you Twisted or alternatively you could use SNAPANG to align you crosshairs to the layout. Now you can draw leaders and text as you normally would.

[craigr]

Thanks for the Suggestion, but I've been bit by that blasted LT thing again!!

DVIEW is not available in LT.   

Thanks anyways,
craigr

[Rob...]

Sorry 'bout that.

How about rotating the viewport and working through the viewport using one of the two options I mentioned above to align your cross hairs and annotation to the layout?

[craigr]

I am 'on the clock now', I will give a try tomorrow morning and post my results.

Thanks

[Mark]

Do you have 'mvsetup' available?

[craigr]

Do you have 'mvsetup' available?

Nope. - 'Unknown Command'

BTW, LT is frustrating sometimes. But, I acknowledge that it IS Significantly Cheaper.

Thanks anyway

[Mark]

To Rotate a View Within a Viewport
 
At the Command prompt, enter VPROTATEASSOC.
Set the value to 1.
Select the viewport with the view you want to rotate.
Enter r (Rotate) to rotate the view to a specified angle or with two points.
Specify a base point for the rotation.
Specify the rotation angle or specify a second point to determine the angle of rotation.
The entire view rotates within the viewport.
Note
When VPROTATEASSOC is set to 0, the view within the viewport is not rotated when the viewport is rotated.
The ROTATE command rotates individual objects only and should not be used to try to rotate a view.

[Mark]

or ...

To Rotate a View by Changing the UCS
 
Double-click within the viewport whose objects you want to rotate.
Make sure that the current UCS is parallel to the plane of rotation (the UCS icon should look normal).
Click View tabCoordinates panelWorld.
Click View tabCoordinates panelZ.
To rotate the view 90 degrees clockwise, enter 90. To rotate the view 90 degrees counterclockwise, enter -90.
Click View menu 3D ViewsPlan ViewCurrent UCS.
The entire view rotates within the viewport. You may need to specify the scale of the viewport again.

[David Hall]

Do you have 'mvsetup' available?

. But, I acknowledge that it IS Significantly Cheaper.

Thanks anyway

maybe 1 copy of the real software to solve these type issues would be worth it, dunno

[Rob...]

Psst... free trial(s) in a pinch.

[StykFacE]

or ...

To Rotate a View by Changing the UCS
 
Double-click within the viewport whose objects you want to rotate.
Make sure that the current UCS is parallel to the plane of rotation (the UCS icon should look normal).
Click View tabCoordinates panelWorld.
Click View tabCoordinates panelZ.
To rotate the view 90 degrees clockwise, enter 90. To rotate the view 90 degrees counterclockwise, enter -90.
Click View menu 3D ViewsPlan ViewCurrent UCS.
The entire view rotates within the viewport. You may need to specify the scale of the viewport again.

+1. The way I do it. Much easier than MVSETUP, Align, Rotate.... etc. Whatever the MVSETUP way is. Just old and outdated and hard to get it perfect, especially non orthogonal angles.

[danallen]

in viewport

command UCS > z > 90
as required to get your rotation

command PLAN > current (ucs)

[Mark]

or ...

To Rotate a View by Changing the UCS
 
Double-click within the viewport whose objects you want to rotate.
Make sure that the current UCS is parallel to the plane of rotation (the UCS icon should look normal).
Click View tabCoordinates panelWorld.
Click View tabCoordinates panelZ.
To rotate the view 90 degrees clockwise, enter 90. To rotate the view 90 degrees counterclockwise, enter -90.
Click View menu 3D ViewsPlan ViewCurrent UCS.
The entire view rotates within the viewport. You may need to specify the scale of the viewport again.

+1. The way I do it. Much easier than MVSETUP, Align, Rotate.... etc. Whatever the MVSETUP way is. Just old and outdated and hard to get it perfect, especially non orthogonal angles.

I disagree. I tried the quoted method several times without success.

[StykFacE]

Well, technically what danallen quoted is exactly, to the tee my method. The one you posted was similar but non-command line method (unless I missed something).