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Rotate drawing in viewport

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:54:39 GMT

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

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

tcorey — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:56:36 GMT

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

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:11:29 GMT

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

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

tcorey — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:16:59 GMT

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.

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:44:45 GMT

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?

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

troma — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:21:39 GMT

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.

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

troma — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:22:44 GMT

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

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:30:46 GMT

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

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

troma — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:52:13 GMT

Don't hit Escape

Hit Enter instead.

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

LeafRiders — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:56:13 GMT

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!

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

sjgoessling — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:39:15 GMT

I use ALIGNSPACE, which is also in the express tools, in the Layout Section. Very easy to use.

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

Joe-Bouza — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:32:33 GMT

LOL

Lets start a UCS rebellion!

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

mathewkol — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:33:38 GMT

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.

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

MikeEvansUK — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:21:44 GMT

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

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

bvandamm — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:17:37 GMT

Also make sure your viewport isn't locked.

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

doni49 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:59:39 GMT

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)
)

Re: Rotate drawing in viewport

troma — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:57:42 GMT

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.

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