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Changing UCS inside viewport

Changing UCS inside viewport

Changing UCS inside viewport

(OP)
Hey everyone
i'm working with Acad 14,i'm in paperspace working inside a viewport.  I'm trying to rotate the UCS so i can do a profile of a strip of land.  Now, i just got done doing the same thing to a different drawing and it worked fine.  But on this particular file i type in:

MVSETUP
--ALIGN
----ROTATE
-------then i type my desired angle

instead of going to the desired rotation it zooms extent and won't let me rotate at all.

I hope i explained well enough, any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks
Juice

RE: Changing UCS inside viewport

Try the system variable UCSFOLLOW, it can have a different value in each viewport.  I believe you want it set to 0 (or whatever it's not).
Hope this does it,
Carl

RE: Changing UCS inside viewport

You shouldn't work inside the view port (floating model space). Instead while you are inside paperspace, select the desired viewport and type mvsetup " " ", this should give you the desired results, but do this completly inside paperapce, don't type ms.
I use this commad all of the time with great results.
hope this helps

RE: Changing UCS inside viewport

(OP)
Thanks For those suggestions but they didn't solve my problem.  I'm not actually working inside the viewport.  I work in ms, buy trying to setup plan and profile page, so that a particular strip land with a sewer line can be rotated inside the viewport so that it is horizontal along the bottom of my page. In world ucs the strip of land is about 20 degrees towards the east and  i want to rotate inside the viewport about 70 degrees.  But when i try the command MVSETUP---align---rotate......inside the viewport, it zooms to extent and won't let me rotate the UCS at all.

Juice

RE: Changing UCS inside viewport

I don't know if this is a command in 14 or not, but you can try this:

Set your UCS such that its orientation is Y towards where you want the top of the screen to be and X is towards where you want the right of the screen to be.

At the command line, type PLAN

It will default to current UCS, so press enter.

Finally, if it makes sense to do so, change your UCS to PREVIOUS.

Hope this helps.

Bill
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