CHANGE ROTATION IN VIEWPORT

[Anonymous]

Good afternoon all.

I have a problem wherein I need to rotate the view of a drawing object within a viewport, without actually rotating the object in model space. 

A former coworker had showed me once where I could reverse the view--- looking at the object from the A side to looking from the B side. Now, I want to rotate the orientation inside the viewport.

I hope this is clear enough. If not, please let me know. 

TYIA.

[paullimapa]

You can use the good old DVIEW command with the TWist parameter:

DVIEW

<enter>

Twist

enter your rotation angle

Another method would be to use the UCS command with UCSFOLLOW enabled:

UCSFOLLOW

1

UCS

Z

enter your rotation angle

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[pendean]

Rotate the viewport: that's right, select the viewport outline, start ROTATE command, select your angle, and be done.

But you seem to want MIRROR instead... .

[Emmsleys · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

There are two options you could try that can help with rotating a view within a viewport. 

1. Rotate view by changing the UCS 
2. Rotate a view within a viewport

Please select"Accept as Solution" if my post resolves your issue, or reply with additional information if the problem persists.

Thanks. 

[3wood · Accepted solution]

Please ensure VPROTATEASSOC is set to 1 if ROTATE doesn't work as expected on you viewport.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

my prefered tool to adjustion the view-rotation is the viewcube:

- alfred -

[jackshield]

GOOD TIP!

how do you rotate in 3d axis?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

click onto corners or edges of the cube, this brings you to predefined views.

And completely free orbit can be done by

• click and hold a corner of the viewcube while moving the mouse
• click and hold <SHIFT><MiddleMouseButton> and move the mouse

- alfred -

[jackshield]

I have always used dview and rotated by certain angles when modeling equipment, but this could help for standard views.

Sent from my iPhone

[Anonymous]

thank you, one and all for your responses.

Please pardon my delayed response. I got sick, and was out for a day. 

I did find that the VPROTATEASSOC did what I'd wanted. 

It was not however what I was initially thinking. 

As stated in my initial post, this colleague who'd shown this to me had used something like -view, or -vport. I did just try this and it did not work the way I was expecting.

I don't remember specifically. But what it did was to show the reverse side of the object. 

And no, it was not mirror. 

I do like the wheel. I'd used it before, but that was sufficiently long ago that I'd forgotten-- thank you for the reminder. 

I think that one of these two items will probably be what I'll use for the time being. 

Again, thank you.

[alcohen]

What would cause the small arrows on the view cube to not rotate the view?  Someone gave me a drawing to edit for them, and they are not working.  If I create a new drawing, or open any of my old drawings, the arrows work fine.

I tried the vprotateassoc command on both a 1 and 0 variable but that did nothing.

Thanks!