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Rotate drawing in viewport

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Message 1 of 17
rvandever21
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Rotate drawing in viewport

How do I rotate the drawing in viewport?

 

I want to have my profile and alignment to be in the same orientation on paper space. I have VPROTATEASSOC set to 1. I am not sure if I am using UCS and MVSETUP correctly.  All information will work.

 

Thank you,

Rochelle Vandever

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Message 2 of 17
tcorey
in reply to: rvandever21

Use two viewports. In the profile viewport, no rotation at all. In the alignment viewport, use Dview with Twist option.

 

 



Tim Corey
MicroCAD Training and Consulting, Inc.
Redding, CA
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Message 3 of 17
rvandever21
in reply to: tcorey

I tried to use the DVIEW on my viewport. It says I could only use dview in model space.

Message 4 of 17
tcorey
in reply to: rvandever21

If you double click inside the alignment's viewport, you will be in modelspace (not to be confused with the Model tab.) Use Dview from there.



Tim Corey
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Redding, CA
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Message 5 of 17
rvandever21
in reply to: tcorey

I was able to rotate the drawing but I can scale or move the drawing to line up the profile. Is there a way to keep the rotate but turn off dview?

Message 6 of 17
troma
in reply to: rvandever21

When you get the rotation right, set the scale of the viewport.  Then lock the viewport to prevent accidentally changing the scale later.  Both the scale and the lock can be found at the bottom right of your main screen, or in the properties pallette.

Once you've done that you can move the viewport around in paper space, and stretch it bigger or smaller as necessary.


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 7 of 17
troma
in reply to: rvandever21

I just re-read your question; do you need to hit enter one more time to exit out of the dview command?


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 8 of 17
rvandever21
in reply to: troma

I still have the dview command on but when I escape to move the drawing.  The alignment will change back to the original drawing.

Message 9 of 17
troma
in reply to: rvandever21

Don't hit Escape

Hit Enter instead.


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 10 of 17
LeafRiders
in reply to: troma

This is a pretty painful solution...

 

Use UCS (enter) 3 (enter) click two points (left to right), this will be come your new West to East (left to right).

 

Final step.... Type PLAN (enter) (enter)... Proceed to set the scale of your viewport and then lock it as suggested. Good Luck!

Message 11 of 17
sjg
Advisor
in reply to: rvandever21

I use ALIGNSPACE, which is also in the express tools, in the Layout Section. Very easy to use.
Steve Goessling
Land Consultants
Civil3D 2015
Windows 7, 64 bit
Intel i7 2600 @ 3.40Ghz
16 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro 600
Message 12 of 17
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: LeafRiders

LOL

 

Lets start a UCS rebellion!Smiley Surprised

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

HP Z210 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E31240 @ 3.30 Hz
12 GB Ram


Note: Its all Resistentialism, so keep calm and carry on

64 Bit Win10 OS
Message 13 of 17
mathewkol
in reply to: rvandever21

Another option is to just rotate the viewport. It's super easy. The view will be rotated. The viewport will appear to be rotated, but it's not, it's clipped. You can remove the clip after if you wish. VPROTATEASSOC setting is used when rotating viewports.
Matt Kolberg
SolidCAD Professional Services
http://www.solidcad.ca /
Message 14 of 17
MikeEvansUK
in reply to: mathewkol

Matt, they could try the rotate command too (grin)
Mike Evans

Civil3D 2022 English
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Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz With 32768MB RAM, AMD FirePro V4900, Dedicated Memory: 984 MB, Shared Memory: 814 MB

Message 15 of 17
bvandamm
in reply to: rvandever21

Also make sure your viewport isn't locked.


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Message 16 of 17
doni49
in reply to: rvandever21

This is a lisp routine that I use to DVIEW rotate my modelspace work.  It makes it so much easier.  Assuming you're alignment is one tangent, you'd pick one end then the other end.

 

That will be made horizontal to your viewport.

 

(defun dtr (x)(* pi (/ x 180.0)))
(defun rtd (x) (* x (/ 180.0 pi)))
(defun c:dvtwist()
  (setq pt1(getpoint "Select the first point:  "))
  (setq pt2(getpoint "Select the second point:  " pt1))
  (setq ang(angle pt1 pt2))
  (command "Dview" "" "tw" (- 0 (rtd ang)) "")
  (setvar "snapang" ang)
)



Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician




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Message 17 of 17
troma
in reply to: doni49

Here is a lisp someone else posted elsewhere on the forums.

Like the last one, it sets the DVIEW TWIST and the SNAPANG  so that your crosshairs & ortho work horizontally to the screen.

 

This one lets you pick two points, or select a line, block, or text to use the rotation from.


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

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