Modeling Identical Buildings - Multiple Phases

[leecalisti]

VW question for anyone who will listen...

 

If you had a project where you were creating CDs for the third identical building in a series (Phase 3) where a contractor has already built Phases 1 and 2 (one in 2023, one in 2024) from my CDs, EXCEPT now Phase 3 (in 2025) the building is positioned such that it is oriented 180 degrees to the first two phases, would you:
1. Rotate the VW model and adjust all the viewports.
2. Rotate the viewports 180 degrees and tweak a bit.
3. Forget it - keep it as is and rotate the north arrow 180 degrees.

I am starting Phase 3 this week or next, and I have a complete Vectorworks model of a building constructed twice. With Phase 3, we needed to rotate (or flip) the building. To make the contractor's life easier, I'll keep North upward on the drawing sheet, which creates a lot of drafting work for me.

Have you faced this before? (FYI, I will duplicate the model to retain the original)

[domer1322]

I've been involved in this sort of issue  .....   here is my two cents ..... pick 3 .... just rotate the north arrow.  If your contractor gets confused by a simple north arrow adjustment, you should get a different contractor.  

[leecalisti]

@domer1322 I appreciate that. I just had a long conversation with a good friend architect who is also a VW user. He said the same thing.

[shorter]

There is only one key drawing, and that's the setting out of the phase 3 building.

 

If all other considerations are the same, you simply need to engineer one drawing to deliver the grid for setting out purposes in the correct orientation and location, assuming they are using GPS equipment to set out.

 

Fairly easy to do with a viewport located in 'real' space employing a user origin.

 

If they are using a tape measure, then rotate the site instead.

Edited February 4 by shorter

[leecalisti]

@shorter Thanks Steven,

 

Yes, the surveyor will give points to the GC to set the building corners. Also, I'll have a site plan with a North arrow and a North arrow on each floor plan drawing. I just needed others to talk me in or out of making many changes that require a ton of drafting that lend little benefit in return. 

 

So far, everyone has voted in my favor. I'm not posting drawings on the wall to be reviewed by professors in school, so I think I can get away with not rotating the plans.

 

Thank you!