Rotation goes wrong direction

[sragan]

I know this seems minor, but I'm wondering if it's really a Revit Bug, or if there is some other explanation.

If I rotate a view, it goes the wrong direction.  For example, if I rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, it goes 90 degrees counter clockwise.  

Here's the step by step process.  Say you have a Revit model with a linked arch plan.  You create a new floor plan, and then in properties, select Crop View, Crop Region Visible, and Annotation Crop.   Select the view by selecting the crop regions ( the crop regions show up in blue), and select "Rotate" from the Ribbon Panel, and rotate the view 90 degrees one direction.

The view goes the opposite direction.

[RobDraw]

You're not actually rotating the view. You're rotating the boundary. Think of it like a window. When you rotate the view changes within the window in the reverse direction.

Not a "bug".

[sragan]

If I think of it like a window, the view doesn't change at all when I rotate a window. (maybe I'm taking you too literal, but I assumed you meant a window like a window in a house).

Maybe the crop region changes, and a horizontal rectangular view may become a vertical rectangular view.   But trees outside the window don't suddenly look like they are growing horizontal.   

And since you brought up "window", I tried it in autocad.   In autocad the view (or window) changes in the same direction as any other object I rotate.   

So I don't buy it that this somehow makes more sense.  

[RobDraw · Accepted solution]

It's just a matter of understanding. Nobody said it makes more sense. It's just different. 

To add more to my explanation. Your head rotates with the window. The trees rotate in the opposite direction of the window.

[ToanDN]

@RobDraw explains it correctly whether you like it or not.  It makes sense if you ever framed a scene using you hands when taking a photograph.

Here is a test that may get you to understand: uncrop a view, draw a scope box, rotate the scope box, now think the content inside the rotated scope box is the content of the view when cropped.

[sragan]

Ok, now picturing my head rotating the direction I'm rotating the view, and that does make sense.  The link would appear to go the other direction.

I'm convinced now.

So autocad has it wrong!! 🙂

[RobDraw]

Actually, AutoCAD used to behave in a similar fashion except your head didn't rotate with the frame. So, just rotating the shape of the frame, not the view.

Confused yet?