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The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:30:18 GMT

Should I rotate the viewport using the rotate function? I am not sure the degree I want to rotate. Just eyeball it?

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:31:48 GMT

I only want to rotate the drawing inside the viewport rather than rotating the viewport. I want to keep the same location and shape of the VP. How to do that?

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

cadffm — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:52:12 GMT

Cross/Doublepost https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-make-ucs-of-paper-space-consistent-with-model-space/td-p/7675056

Change the current View: PLAN

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

MMcCall402 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:12:14 GMT

My preference is the ALIGNSPACE from the Express Tools. It works much like the Align command for objects. I use it to set the viewport rotation, then I set the scale, pan around to fine tune the location, then lock the viewport. After that I set the UCS to view so any mtext or multileader I make thru the viewport pickup the alignment of the viewport as a rotation of 0. Nothing in model space is affected by this.

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

john.vellek — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:22:22 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

If you want to rotate the model inside your viewport, you might consider DVIEW>Twist.

I made a quick video for you that shows me doing this twice in a viewport. (just so you don't miss the simplicity of using the feature)

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

paullimapa — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:04:35 GMT

The replies by others contain steps that will work.

But you'll have to Zoom to the location & set the Vport's scale factor to match with the original.

The advantages of rotating the Pspace Vport is that you don't have to do any of the above steps.

Is there a reason why you don't want to just Rotate the Vport?

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

john.vellek — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:18:40 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

There are some good suggestions here in this thread as well as your other one. Please reward those contributions with kudos if they helped and please also mark a post or posts as solutions if they resolved your question.

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

tboehler — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:44:10 GMT

"Is there a reason why you don't want to just Rotate the Vport?"

This is a good reason.

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

john.vellek — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:52:59 GMT

Hi @tboehler,

You can do it this way and then XCLIP to have it fit within your page. Just another option for you to try.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: The right way to rotate viewport in paper space

tboehler — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:55:40 GMT

Correct.