Rotating Levels

[RobDraw]

I've got a project with varying multiple floor levels in parts of the building. I just went through the exercise of rotating the project. I'm afraid I may not have done it right but it's too late to undo and redo.

What I've done is reset the project North 270 degrees relative to the original which aligned with true North. After that I rotated our models and annotation. Copy/monitored column lines did not work as expected and I accepted the fact that I would have to redo them. It was at that point that I should have realized that the (unseen) levels would behave similarly and not go along for the ride correctly.

Initial searches revealed that there may be a better, although not very intuitive, procedure for rotating project North in existing models. I can imagine that my naive method could severely break a model that has been developed at all. This project is in a very early state and the the things that broke were either easily fixed or just deleted.

What I'm looking for is a way to rotate the existing copy/monitored levels or a way to replace them without too much work.

[ToanDN]

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@RobDraw wrote:

I've got a project with varying multiple floor levels in parts of the building. I just went through the exercise of rotating the project. I'm afraid I may not have done it right but it's too late to undo and redo.

What I've done is reset the project North 270 degrees relative to the original which aligned with true North. After that I rotated our models and annotation.

What I'm looking for is a way to rotate the existing copy/monitored levels or a way to replace them without too much work.

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I would red flag the above.  If your goal is to rotate the entire model then either rotate Project North or True North, not the model itself.  That way, there would be no issue with the copy/monitored you described.

[RobDraw · Accepted solution]

@ToanDN

I did realize that I should have researched this a bit more than I did before actually doing the rotation. I realized midstream that it wasn't going to work out as expected. I was following the architect and had no idea how they were doing it, but "thought" I did. Having just gotten into DD, the stuff that broke was going to get blown away anyway. The important stuff was still intact. Except for copy/monitored grids and levels.

Back to the OP. I think that I'm starting to get my head around controlling the extent of levels.

The extent of the levels can be reset to be maximized to the extents of the model, not quite sure how it determines the extents. Then the individual levels can be confined to the appropriate corresponding extents of the areas by using scope boxes. Scope boxes do have their limitations, though and it's not an ideal solution for controlling the extent of levels. Ain't no way I'm adding more levels just for hosting stuff to.

Arrrrgh... So much time spent researching this in relation to another project and finally found a thread from 2010 explaining it.