Rotate & Copy Doubles Rotation Angle

[rmarkowitz]

When I rotate an item in Revit using the rotate command and I want to make a copy, the new instance of the item appears 2x the angle that I entered. If I want to rotate and make a copy of something at 45°, I must type in 22.5 as the rotation angle.

Is anyone else having this problem? It's not the worst problem in the world but is sure is annoying...

Thanks!

[Arno.delange]

looks like the problem is sitting into the Disjoin in the options bar... when rotating make sure it is turned OFF

[VascoP]

I have this problem when "disjoin" is ticked, if it is unticked it works as it should

[stephen_gibbDJJ6J]

Thanks for this thread. On Revit 2025.2 and this started happening also. Unticking the Disjoin sorted it.

[hwo_osa]

The issue here is also that the "disjoin" checkbox cannot be unchecked whenever the "copy" option is active.

Effectively, this means that you cannot copy-rotate a workplane based family in Revit.

This thread is now over 5 years old and has almost 6.000 views. Come on Autodesk, seriously...

[jflemaydesign]

I've had the same problem in Revit for years (about ten years) over multiple versions.  Rotating an object in the project by a certain angle, rotates it by twice that angle.  So to rotate by 60°, I have to type in 30°.  I now use Revit 2023.1, and the problem is very much there (e.g. rotating a face-based family in the project).

Unticking "Disjoin" seems to solve the problem.  But it still seems like a bug.