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Reorienting model to face true north

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 04:02:26 GMT

I have generated a site map (2D) that is not oriented to the correct cardinal direction and I need to change this orientation - either by changing true north on my cube or rotating the entire site map I assume.

I appreciate your thoughts

P.S I am using AutoCad for Mac 2018

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

maxim_k — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:16:14 GMT

Welcome to Autodesk Forums!

Hi Shyla,

Probably both solutions are suitable.

It all depends on what you are going to do next with this drawing.

Maxim

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:38:59 GMT

I am looking for direction on either option.

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

maxim_k — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:51:45 GMT

You can use ROTATE command with "Reference" option to rotate everything in your drawing to desired direction.

Maxim

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

john.vellek — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:35:23 GMT

HI @Anonymous,

I see that you are visiting as a new member to the AutoCAD for Mac forum. Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

Did Maxim's suggestions get the map oriented properly in your project? If you need additional assistance with this is is possible to add your drawing to a post and I am happy to take a look for you.

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:14:42 GMT

Yes, thank you.

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:59:05 GMT

Maxim,

Thank you again for your solution to my original problem. In correcting this successfully I realized I have another problem. My apologies if this is a rudimentary concept (am very new at autocad and drafting), but I am trying to orient my site to face the cardial directions generated from my compass, who creates North as 0 degrees and East at 90 degrees. However, on my model north is oriented to the Cartesian X,Y plane, making North 90 degrees and East 0 degrees.

How can I solve this discrepancy?

Thanks again,

SMyrick

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

maxim_k — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 06:33:28 GMT

SMyrick,

You can change the direction of the zero angle with menu Format -> Units...

Set it to North.

Maxim

Re: Reorienting model to face true north

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:29:25 GMT

Thank you again, Maxim.