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redoing project north and all goes wrong

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:19:02 GMT

Hi,

I have already set true north to my project. However, it is slightly off balance, about 1 degree. When I try to correct this from manage->position, it gives me 131 errors 😄

So here are my questions

-Why does only one linked dwg file rotate? What setting I have that´s not correct?

-Why does this rotating delete all my extrusions?

-Is there something that I should do before setting true north the second time?

My model was created fully already when I first did the true north move. I do not remember getting any errors when doing it the first time.

Re: redoing project north and all goes wrong

aRcHiTeCt.JM — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:43:09 GMT

... do you mind uploading your .rvt to take a look?

Re: redoing project north and all goes wrong

ToanDN — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:27:20 GMT

Rotate true north and rotate project north have very different consequences. Why don't you rotate true north instead of project north to correct th 1 degree error?

Re: redoing project north and all goes wrong

barthbradley — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 01:54:59 GMT

Are you Rotating Project North or Rotating a View to True North. The fact that this rotating deletes your extrusions tells me you are doing neither. Are you, by chance, using the Rotate tool on the Modify Tab. That would explain a lot -- and everything you are experiencing. Do you have a backup of the Project before you rotated it?

Re: redoing project north and all goes wrong

Corsten.Au — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:33:51 GMT

Hi...

Project north is used to align the building with the sheet.. so that its convenient to read the drawings..

This Project north settings are done in the beginning of the project... if its not done correctly then it will affect the entire project and there is no fix as such...

Ideally Correct the project north, and whichever elements, 2D gets affected, need a fix as well... there is no shortcut

to fix all this automatically...

Here are the consequences of rotating north

1. Rotating Project north - This will affect all 2D elements, and mess up the entire project

2. Rotating True north - This wont affect 2D or 3D.. but this may not fix the orientation of the building for the sheet.

If you don't want to rotate or fix the Project north cause its too late to do so, then workaround is to

" Rotate Crop Region " by 1 degree ( as per your requirement ) to get the orientation on sheet right.

Re: redoing project north and all goes wrong

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 08:59:07 GMT

Real late response but yeah, I don´t know what I was thinking using project north to correct my true north allignment. Using true north worked, using project north did not.

And yes I was using the correct rotating tools, not using just the basic rotate from modify tab.