×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

How do I rotate a complete view??

How do I rotate a complete view??

How do I rotate a complete view??

(OP)
I use CAD 14). I have a drawing, two adjoined buildings. One of the buildings is orthogonal (in plan), the other building is skewed at 24 degrees to the vertical. TO work on the skewed building I have to go to UCS and pick "object" and click on a line rotated to the building skew, so the cursur will rotate to the building skew (VERY AWKWARD!!!). How do I rotate the whole "drawing" to appear orthogonal?? (rather than rotate the cursor). I know it can be done but I dont know how???

HELP!!

RE: How do I rotate a complete view??

Once you've rotated your UCS as you describe, enter the PLAN command, and <current UCS>.  That will rotate your view of the plan to mach the UCS.

Another option is use the DVIEW command to TWIST the view to the proper angle to provide and orthagonal view of the skewed portion.

RE: How do I rotate a complete view??

Paullaup,

One option you could use in Model Space is the VPORTS command to split your screen into 2 or more pieces in different arrangements.  You can independently DView each window to have them oriented as you like.  This setup is typically used by folks working in 3d, but I occasionally find it useful for situations as you suggest.

Personally, I never change the UCS, but that is primarily due to the type work I do (Civil Engineering) because it causes havoc when making and inserting blocks.  DView is much simpler for my use.

Jeff Foster, PE
CE Group, Inc.
Apex, NC

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources