A common question from people with experience using AutoCAD is, "Does Revit have a UCS too?". There isn't a literal equal tool in Revit, no UCS button. In Revit we manipulate views to make it easier to work with different orientations. This means making some extra views. We can move back and forth between any number of views, as often as necessary. If we don't need them anymore, we can just delete them (thus the notion of a "working view").
There are several ways to manage working with different view orientation:
There are several ways to manage working with different view orientation:
- Turn on and rotate the Workplane, turn on Workplane visibility, Revit will snap architectural elements to the workplane (not effective for MEP elements)
- Rotate the crop region of a view (rotation is in the opposite direction to the orientation you need)
- Scope Boxes - associate views to a scope box that is rotated by the angle required. The scope box controls the crop region (see 1)
- A Callout View can be placed and rotated to generate a view that is oriented to a desired direction
How about a video?
There is another way to rotate a view but it is related to the orientation of the view to the sheet it is place on. Imagine a portrait orientation of a view on a landscape oriented sheet. I've seen this used for overall elevations of tall buildings. It is a property of a View or it's Viewport called: Rotation on Sheet.
Post was inspired by my response to a thread at AUGI.
