Rotate a view 180 degress on sheet

[Joris.vd.Meulen]

I have a sheet on which I want my 

-siteplan

-elevations

The elevations should be rotated along with my siteplan. So:

north elevation: flipped 180degrees

east: 90cw

west:  90ccw

south: 0

It's the North Elevation that is bugging me. I can't rotate the view so I'm seeing it upsidedown on screen / print. 

I read about rotating the crop boundary but that isn't working either.

Who has a solution - workaround?

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

I always ty to avoid these kind of things. I have it done one in a project.

What I ended up doing was:

-Create your four elevations and put three of themn on a sheet (S, E & W)

-E and W you can rotate on sheet by using that function (you can see ther is no 180° available).

Now it gets a little messy....

-Open your north elevation.

-Draw a callout around your elevation.

-After drawing your call-out, you can rotate the call-out window 180°

-When you open the newly created call-out view it should be upside down.

-Place this call-out on your sheet...

If somebody has a cleaner method I would be interested to know too.

[Joris.vd.Meulen]

Hey Enlint,

Picture this: 

- nasty meeting so a bit annoyed. Grabbed a cup of freshly brewed coffee,

- notice a mail notification from A'forum.

- "now it gets a little messy": small smirk (nothing new in Revit 😉 )

- "create a call-out __ and rotate that": next face expression:  

- sips some coffee

- tests 

-

Even though it's a strange approach I'm very happy with your suggestion. Only had to adjust sun position to adjust shadowing. 

Thanks, you made my morning a lot better!

3Pinter

[davidstatters]

Works perfectly.

Its not messy.

Thanks

[davidstatters]

Works perfectly.

Its not messy.

Thanks

[gideon]

you may find my approach ok too

if you have a floor plan open.

turn on crop view and crop region visible, then click on the view boundary, then use the rotate command to rotate teh view 180 degree.

the view will be rotate on sheet 180 degrees.  

[davidstatters]

Good useful tip. Remind users they need to adjust the crop region after rotation. Very useful technique for fitting views onto sheets.

[k.juroszek]

This doesn't solve the problem entirely. After rotating the callout, annotations don't change their direction what makes the operation pointless. In rotating viewport in sheet all content rotates with it.

[BrandonMRael]

Thank you, Very helpful trick!

[ed.austin]

I found it much easier to create a scope box around the area and then rotate the scope 180 degrees.

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@L.Maas wrote:

I always ty to avoid these kind of things. I have it done one in a project.

What I ended up doing was:

-Create your four elevations and put three of themn on a sheet (S, E & W)

-E and W you can rotate on sheet by using that function (you can see ther is no 180° available).

Now it gets a little messy....

-Open your north elevation.

-Draw a callout around your elevation.

-After drawing your call-out, you can rotate the call-out window 180°

-When you open the newly created call-out view it should be upside down.

-Place this call-out on your sheet...

If somebody has a cleaner method I would be interested to know too.

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[asf.arq]

This has been incorporated into Autodesk's knowledge base:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Rotating-v...

[asf.arq]

I tried this in Revit 2022 and worked nicely — annotation orientation included.