Rotating and Aligning Plan View in Title Block

[ronP6PKG]

I have a simple plan and profile drawing. A poly line was drawn and converted to an alignment. A quick profile was then created to get my grid for the alignment where a profile view is then sketched. 

My question is. What is the recommended method for rotating and aligning the plan view in paper space. The alignment has a curve in in it and runs south to north. The plan and profile are in two separate viewports in paper space. In the past I have drawn a line between the start and end points of the alignment and in paper space used the UCS command along that line and rotated the view. 

Is there a better or preferred method?

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[CahaLF7RX]

Hello,

yes there is a better method.

look into using view frames and setting up plan and profiles sheets there.

good luck,

Nonbeard13

[MSchille-1994]

The method you used is just fine if you mean you used Dview Twist to rotate the view.  We explicitly use this method for all our plan sheets.  The use of View Frames and having Civil 3D create your sheets is fine, we just don't care for it here at our office.

[CahaLF7RX]

Oh, I prefer to use Dview Twist for all my plan views, if necessary.

just makes life easy and you can break the views up easier for curves and intersections.

good luck,

nonbeard13

[AllenJessup]

One other method I like to use is to draw a polyline on the viewport boundary and use CHSPACE to bring it into the model. I then use that as a reference for setting up the sheets in modelspace and saving them as Views. That way I can restore the view in paperspace anytime I need to.

I use DView Twist and get the angle from the polyline.

[MSchille-1994]

Yep I used to do that quite a bit.  Sometimes I still do if I am curious what area the view will cover while in our design file and not in the sheet file.  It's funny how over the years we change techniques on workflows and kind of forget the old ones.

[chriscowgill7373]

A quick profile seems like an unnecessary step, as it is a temporary object and gets deleted as soon as you save the drawing.

(defun	c:vp1 (/ viewangle)
	   (setq viewangle (RTD
			     (getangle "\nPick the bottom left corner and another point along the bottom edge of the viewframe")
			   ) ;_ end of RTD
	   )				; get angle
	   (command "dview" "" "twist" (* -1 viewangle) "") ;dview
	 ) ;_ end of defun
(defun RTD (A) (/ (* A 180.0) pi))

I use this code for rotating my views, it is designed to work with a view frame, but you can click any two points in the view and it will align them horizontally within your viewport. 

[Beka_Tchigladze]

AutoCAD 2025 Help | ALIGNSPACE (Express Tool) | Autodesk

Actually, I use this tool for view rotation

[tcorey · Accepted solution]

You're doing one sheet? You don't need Plan Production Tools for that.

Don't change the UCS, use Dview command and then the TWist option. This will not affect coordinates, which changing UCS will do.

[Joe-Bouza]

Here’s one more. In Paper Space rotate the view port along you reference angle and grip the 4 corners when done