How to rotate an enlarged plan in Revit

Q: How do I Rotate a viewport plan?

Type in Vprotateassoc” and set to 1, this will allow the Rotation” of the viewport contents, as well as the Viewport”. Using the Rotate” command, select the Viewport”, specify a base rotation point and either specify the rotation angle or rotate by point selection.

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How do you change the rotation of a plan in Revit?
How do you Rotate the orientation in Revit?
How do I Rotate a viewport plan?

This video demonstrates the following:

Rotate a view and title mark by 90 degrees.
Rotate a view by changing project North.
Rotate the crop region of a view.

Note: This video was recorded using Revit 2019. When using a newer software release, you may notice differences in functionality and user interface.

Transcript

When composing a sheet in Revit, views are dragged from the Project Browser and placed on a sheet. While composing the sheet, you may need to rotate the view to better fit the sheet.

After a view has been placed on the sheet, select the view. On the Options Bar, use the drop-down arrow to set the Rotation on Sheet. Rotate the view clockwise or counterclockwise in 90 degree increments. This will rotate the whole view, and the title mark associated with the view. In this case, both plans are rotated counterclockwise. This method of rotating a view might be used when trying to match views to a specific title block orientation.

Another method to rotate views on a sheet is to change the project North in the model. For example, you would like the longer axis of this building to be the major axis, and to be placed on the sheet this way. Double-click inside the viewport to activate it. On the Manage tab, click Position and then select Rotate Project North. In the dialog, select Align selected line or plane. Now, select one of the walls in the diagonal wing. After the command finishes processing, both plans are rotated to have the longer wing aligned to the horizontal and vertical axis of the sheet.

Repeat the procedure, but this time, select to rotate Project North by 90 degrees clockwise. This changes the Project North to align the longer wing in the vertical direction on the sheet.

The third method to rotate a view is to rotate the crop region of the view directly. Double-click in the viewport to activate the view. On the View Control Bar turn on the visibility of the crop region. Select the crop region, and on the Modify tab, click Rotate. When rotating a crop region, it is important to remember the crop region will always orient itself to the application frame, so even though you are rotating the crop region, it will appear the model inside the crop region is rotating.

The best way to get the results you are looking for is to start the rotation action pointing toward the crop region edge you want to align. In this case, the first click of the rotation is toward the top edge of the crop region. The second click aligns to the element in the model you want aligned to the edge from the first click. The view is rotated. In this case, because the crop region of the view is rotated, the second floor plan remains unaffected.

When laying out views, use one of these 3 methods to rotate view on the sheet as required.

When we design a building in a site, we often see that the building north is not our preferred direction. It is more comfortable to work with this building if we can rotate the view.

However, rotating the project north can affect the model. So do not touch that for this purpose!

You can rotate one particular view to work with this building. You can do it by rotating the crop region.

Create a duplicate of your view before you do this.

If you are not familiar with the crop region, you can show it by clicking hide/show crop region button below the view.

After you can see the boundary, select it.

Now click rotate on the Conceptual tab> Modify panel> Rotate.

Move the rotation base point to a reference point that you want to use.
Click the first reference point. I use a point on the right side of the base point.
Click the second reference point on your building plan. You can see the dashed lines as your guide.

Now you can see the floor plan is rotated.

This rotation only affects one particular view. So it doesn’t mess your project orientation!

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How do you change the rotation of a plan in Revit?

Change the Orientation of a Plan View.

Open a plan view..

On the Properties palette, for Orientation, select a value: Project North aligns the view with the preferred orientation for design work, as specified for the model. True North aligns the view with the real-world north direction. See Rotate True North..

How do you Rotate the orientation in Revit?

Click Manage tab Project Location panel Position drop-down (Rotate True North)..

Select the rotation control that displays at the center of the model, and drag it to the guide..

Click along the guide to indicate the direction of True North..

Click again toward the top of the application window..

How do I Rotate a viewport plan?

Type in “Vprotateassoc” and set to 1, this will allow the “Rotation” of the viewport contents, as well as the “Viewport”. Using the “Rotate” command, select the “Viewport”, specify a base rotation point and either specify the rotation angle or rotate by point selection.