No, it should sound as it reads:
I do want to rotate coordinate system, which will affect all the coordinates and north; North will not point up any longer. What you are suggesting is a plain change of view, not the coordinate system.
I do understand that not many have used that feature in LDT, so it is confusing for them. I have not either, and I often asked myself why would anyone ever need to rotate coordinate system in the drawing. To my knowledge, out of few LDT users who knew about that option, many of them were reluctant to use it, because it may look scary messing around with your coordinates and north orientation.
Again, if you do not know what I mean, I suggest you step through Lesson 2 of LDT tutorial as I mentioned in my original post. Draw a line, find its bearing (inquiry set of tools), then set North Rotation to something else than zero. Then find the line's bearing again. It is different now! If you change a view only (Dview) you are not affecting bearings (and coordinates).
But now, I would greatly appreciate having that ability of changing North orientation in Civil 3D as it is available in LDT. I have two coordinate systems to work in for the project, one is State Plane (in which survey is done), and one of the plat book (which is not State Plane). Most of the work will be done in State Plane, but if I start labeling parcels in State Plane, they will not read as they read in the plat book, which is not acceptable for our case. Therefore, I am forced to have two sets of drawing, one in State Plane coord system (used for design), and the other, coordinate system of the plat book (used for labeling parcels and alignments).
I think it would be very elegant if I could change coordinate system (north orientation) as I please for the purpose at hand, so I need to maintain only one set of drawings.
I cannot seem to achieve the same thing in Civil 3D, and I do not think that I am asking to much by looking for something in Civil 3D what was (is) available in LDT.
Again, if this is not currently possible, I would be glad to find out that option in the future release of Civil 3D. By the way, I use Civil 3D 2006, SP2.