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Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:40:17 GMT

Hello there,

I am trying to rotate an entire model in Revit about 25 degrees to make it align with a terrain site plan. I have tried 'create group' and'create instance' but several elements of the model such as oblique beams and balconies rotate in a wrong way. I have also tried rotating the view but this method is only view specific and when I try to copy paste the view it pastes as normal, not rotated. Is there a simple method to do this?

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

HVAC-Novice — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:53:26 GMT

If you want to be exact, the model should be to True north and so should be the terrain. True north can be changed in a plan view. So leave the model alone, and make true north be correct. then rotate the terrain to also be correct north.

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

RDAOU — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:25:44 GMT

@Anonymous

Depending on how you modeled the whole thing...Building and Toposurface in separate models or in the same model...

If in separate models, you simply rotate and align the link and publish coordinates to link if you are using shared coordinates

If in the same model,

Select the toposurface and rotate it
Select the Project Base Point and reset the Angle to true north...(check for PBP on Site Plan or make it visible from Visibility Graphics)

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:31:40 GMT

Nothing seems to work. I have tried most things. So the project is in one file and the site topography is in a separate file. I did manage to change the orientation of true north on the project file but when I try to copy it across to the topography site file it doesn't copy with the true north slanted orientation. I have inserted the two image in this message for your consideration.

I would appreciate if you could guide me.

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:32:30 GMT

I would appreciate if you could guide me.

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

RDAOU — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:39:58 GMT

You set the Site model up (coordinates and true north)
You link the Project Model in
- Rotate
- Move and Aline to position
- Then (Ribbon/Manage/Coordinate) you Publish coordinates to link and save to have a shared site

You can do it the other way round too if you started with setting out the building model

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

syman2000 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:49:51 GMT

I would go against rotating building to fit the site plan. It should be the other way around. First you set your project to true north

Next select rotate to true north

You should be able to toggle between true north and project north.

If you don't want to mess this up, you can setup scopebox. Rotate the scopebox by 25 degree to reflect where you want to rotate the view. Then set the view to scope box and it will automatically rotate your plan.

Re: Rotating an entire model in Revit 2022

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:11:25 GMT

It works perfectly, thank you for this advice.