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Rotating drawing creates extra lines on annotations

Anonymous

Rotating drawing creates extra lines on annotations

Anonymous
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Hi!

 

Perhaps I am rotating drawings the wrong way (Ctral+A) + Rotate?

At least, several of them looks ugly after doing so:

 

Weird annotationsWeird annotations

How can I circumvent this?

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pendean
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What did you rotate exactly and how did you do it without grabbing all of your dimensions?
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Anonymous
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I rotated everything, annotations and all the rest.

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pendean
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It appears, from your picture, that your dimensions where not 'snapped' to objects or were missed in the rotation function (lock layer perhaps).
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Anonymous
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The layers are not locked. How can I determine if the dimensions are snapped to objects or not?

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Anonymous
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Or better yet. Is there another way to rotate the drawing. Rotating the viewport or something?

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pendean
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DIMREASSOCIATE command might be the answer to connect the dims back to their points.

Q: why did you need to rotate the drawing?
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Anonymous
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Two reasons. One is that I use the drawing as a under layer in a different CAD program, which needs the room to be in horisontal/vertical directions. The second reason is that it is much more pleasant to work with drawings that are straight.

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pendean
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Except for item #1 (your other CAD program has limitations), you will find almost all AutoCAD users never rotate the full floor plan but rotate the UCS (and the PLAN variable) to "work with drawings that are straight).

Try it, almost al AutoCAD users do it when we get stuck with floor plans that are at every angle except 0/90 like these /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

See this short tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h01_HeIrtlk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLxmXfmxCi4

Anonymous
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Great! Thanks a lot! Typing UCS, placing it on the lines of the drawing, and then typing PLAN enter - voila 🙂

pendean
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Glad it worked: now take it to the next level by starting up your UCS Manager and giving your new ucs rotation a specific name. Enjoy.

Anonymous
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Ah! That's a good one too! Thanks!