Change View Designation For Drawing

[JimCliff]

HI

We have a file that was imported from sketch up.
When we open the file it shows TOP view, but its actually the FRONT view.

Can someone assist as to how we would change the designation for the views so we can correct this in our drawing?

Thanks

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

you can always use commands

• ROTATE
• 3DROTATE or
• ROTATE3D

to rotate the imported object to meet your orientation.

- alfred -

[JimCliff]

Hi, yes this works to change the perspective on the drawing for immediate use, but the designation will still be wrong when it comes to view short cuts or reference on the cube.

Do you know of a way to change the designation of the view? In this case from TOP to FRONT?

Thank you

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> this works to change the perspective on the drawing

No, the rotate commands do not change the view, they change how the object is oriented in the 3D-space.

- alfred -

[JimCliff]

Hi
Yes, how the rotate and 3d navigation commands work is understood.

We want to permanently change the designation of the view.

Right now, the TOP view is actually the front view, so we want to change TOP to FRONT so that the cube and view tool bar associate with the reality of what is being displayed on screen.

As displayed in the image below, this is not TOP, rather it is FRONT we want to fix the association for this

Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> As displayed in the image below, this is not TOP, rather it is FRONT

I don't see your current coordinate system axis, however if you rotate the geometry about 90° around the display-X axis then you'll look from top to your person and not anymore from front (and all other objects you rotate).

If you upload your dwg-file I'll make a short video.

- alfred -

[leeminardi]

As noted, rotate the geometry.  Specifically

Command: ROTATE3D [Enter]
Current positive angle:  ANGDIR=counterclockwise  ANGBASE=0
Select objects: all [Enter]
58 found
Select objects: [Enter]
Specify first point on axis or define axis by
[Object/Last/View/Xaxis/Yaxis/Zaxis/2points]: x [Enter]
Specify a point on the X axis <0,0,0>: [Enter]
Specify rotation angle or [Reference]: 90 [Enter]
Command:

do the following.

[JimCliff]

Hi Alfred

I appreciate your attention to our matter, but i feel we are speaking past each other. Its my understanding that you are trying to walk us through the process of changing the perspective on a 3d drawing. This is understood.
We want to change the view designation for the cube and tool set. Please see upper right had corner of the image that we sent, the cube shows TOP, we need to take that view and re associate it with FRONT. This will help the team so that we don't have to create our own work around to navigate the drawing.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

btw: what happens if you use command

_UCS

_WORLD

- alfred -

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Its my understanding that you are trying to walk us through the process

>> of changing the perspective on a 3d drawing

No, I'm walking you through the way:

• I see your person is laying on the floor
• I gave you the commands to let it stand up.
• I do not walk you the way that you move/rotate your camera to look to the person from another perspective (so the person is laying on the floor, but the camera is looking to the floor too and so it looks like the person is standing)

>> Please see upper right had corner of the image that we sent

Yes, the viewcube tells you something about view direction, but it depends on your user coordinate system too, it does not tell me currently which user coordinate system you have made active.

So please see my last post about setting the UCS to world, which might already be a conflict with the viewcube showing a predefined view type.

Best at all, I can only repeat, is to upload your dwg and then follow my video.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Jim,

What the others are trying to explain is that you need to modify the geometry by rotating the geometry by the correct axis to present it as the front view. Before doing this you need to confirm what the current UCS is. Hopefully you have your UCS icon on otherwise you will be working blindly.

Now as they say there is more than one way to skin a cat (sorry, not sorry Peta) and that is especially tru in AutoCAD so here is something you can try; Type UCS > enter > V > enter (this will set the UCS to the current view. Now WBLOCK > enter, then select ALL and provide a name for the new drawing. Close the drawing.

Open the new drawing and now the view should be correct. Save it to the original name.