LEGEND COMPONENT WRONG ORIENTATION

[alejandroCH79K]

Hi Team, 

At the moment, I am working with a plate (Family) whose orientation is correct when I place it in elevation or 3d

However, when I place the family in a legend is rotated 

i thought i did wrong the orientation in the family but no, in the family the orientation is correct.

any idea how to fix this? I have been 2 days on the phone with  autodesk support and they just told me to redraw it with detail line haha

Cheers.

[edwin.prakoso]

Does pressing space when placing the family help in correcting the orientation? 

Does it happen in all files or only in a specific file? 

Maybe you can upload the family so we can check it? 

[alejandroCH79K]

Hi @edwin.prakoso , 

Yes, at the moment, to place the family in a wall elevation or 3d, the orientation is correct, and the space bar rotates it before putting it

When I do this in the legend, the orientation is incorrect and does not rotate with the space bar.

[ToanDN]

Orientation of element in Legend view is fixed and not always as expected (depends on family host type).  I suggest you nest the family in another family, rotate it, load it in the project and use it for legend.

[alejandroCH79K]

Hi @ToanDN , 

That sounds like an interesting solution; how do I nest the family in another family?

Cheers

[ToanDN]

- Create a new family

- Open your family and Load it to the new family, place and rotate

[alejandroCH79K]

Hi @ToanDN, 

A metric Generic Model should be ok?.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@alejandroCH79K wrote:

Hi @ToanDN, 

A metric Generic Model should be ok?.

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Yes.

[alejandroCH79K]

I gave it a go, and it still had the same result, still rotated in the legend

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Did you rotate the nested family in the new family by 90 degree?

[alejandroCH79K]

No, I Didn't, but all these plates on my wall. Do I need to update it to the new family (nested) and then rotate it manually?

[alejandroCH79K]

Sorry ,@ToanDN , I tried again with a Nested Family even not necessary need to rotate in the nested family; it's working

now.

Thanks for the help

[johnl5PYL9]

So many horrible workarounds! Just fix it! It's a decade or more.

[BChaneyX38QR]

This is just plain bad.  Revit has been around for 20 years and we still aren't able to rotate a family in a legend view?  Time to flood the wish list with this item!

EDIT:

Okay,  very quick workaround that should be totally unnecessary but works much faster than creating a new family loading nesting, etc. . .  export the view as a dwg, then load it in, explode (partial), then rotate things to your heart's content.  You don't have to even open AutoCAD or any other program.   For lineweights, I'm not so sure how this will do; this legend in particular is for some very basic things. 

[tomSA6BF]

My "workaround" to make a Detail View (not really a Legend, in the traditional sense) is to make an Elevation, Section or FP/RCP Detail view of one of the components placed in the model.
You can still tag, dim & annotate.
I have Elevation Types named with keywords like "Detail" or "TV" (or "Legend") so I can filter them from views if desired, and set with default 1"=1' Wireframe with all the disciplines pre-set, for example.
You can also sort your Project Browser so View Types are sorted.

That being said... anyone want to guess how I came upon this thread?