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Rotate Whole project

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Anonymous
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Rotate Whole project

Rotate all floors and site all at the same time. How do you do it?
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Anonymous
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More importnatly, Why do you want to rotate everything including the site? Did you not setup the site orientation to the proper Project North (UP - north elevation marker) or is it some other reason? Of course you are famaliar with True North versus Project North in Revit, if not look at HELP?

If you need to rotate the entire project is is difficult to select all the entities in any view except a 3D view with wire-frame and then there is no guarenttee that you will get all the entities or that all of them will rotate, especially if you have constrained entities to other entities.

Contact the Factory, Revit Support for help on you project rotation needs.
Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
Professional Services Group

MasterGraphics, Inc.
3701 Algonguin Road, Suite 120
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008

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Message 3 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

oh, I remember this one. The time I thought I wanted to rotate my entire
building and site to line up with "true north". I think it was another one
of those things I brought over from the way I work in AutoCAD and ADT.
Please elaborate on your need to rotate your 'whole project'

This MAY work depending on the size or your project, hardware, OS stability,
and constraints defined in the project. (so far I have not had a need to do
this)
Step 1. Be sure you want to rotate your project (the building will be
rotated in all plan views and could be skewed in all elevation views)
Step 2. Review step 1.
Step 3. If you are sure you want to rotate the building and site and 'rotate
true north' under the tools pull down didn't work for your need, switch to a
new 3D view (so all elements are visible), change to wireframe, crossing
select (right to left window pick), switch to a plan view, with all elements
still selected use the rotate tool.
Good Luck - no guarantees

If you haven't already, check out the True North tutorial to help better
understand the true north/project north factors.
http://www.dgcad.com/Revit8-CadClips.htm

hope this helps.
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Rotate all floors and site all at the same time. How do you do it?
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Would project north work for you? If not go into 3D and pick everything.
Holding down the CTR key go into each floor plan and select everything.

wrote in message news:5387013@discussion.autodesk.com...
Rotate all floors and site all at the same time. How do you do it?
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

You could start in the 3d view, select everything and hit group. Then go
into each view and edit the group and add whatever you didn't get the first
time.

wrote in message news:5387396@discussion.autodesk.com...
More importnatly, Why do you want to rotate everything including the site?
Did you not setup the site orientation to the proper Project North (UP -
north elevation marker) or is it some other reason? Of course you are
famaliar with True North versus Project North in Revit, if not look at HELP?

If you need to rotate the entire project is is difficult to select all the
entities in any view except a 3D view with wire-frame and then there is no
guarenttee that you will get all the entities or that all of them will
rotate, especially if you have constrained entities to other entities.

Contact the Factory, Revit Support for help on you project rotation needs.
Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
Professional Services Group

MasterGraphics, Inc.
3701 Algonguin Road, Suite 120
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008

847.398.5232 X2782 Direct
800.873.7238 Toll Free
847.398.3975 Fax
847.826.2409 Cell
mel.persin@masterg.com
melarch@covad.net
www.masterg.com
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

If the project is really large it can be tricky to Rotate or Mirror the project but it is do-able.

You have to make sure you select everything from as many views as possible (using ctrl + select) including the annotation objects from the plan views. You can usually select all the 'model' object from one or two 3d views.

There are lots of free REVIT CADclips at http://www.cadclips.com

Enjoy !

DG

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