newhus Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hi, I've been using VW for years (although never have touched 3d). I'm working on a house with some angles in plan of 25 degrees. One part of the house is normal, but there will be a whole wing of the house that is rotated 25 degrees to the rest of the house. Is there a way to rotate the reference that vectorworks uses, ie draw with everything relative to 25 degrees? For example, to be simple, to be able to draw with the Line tool in Constrained mode relative to 25 (ie 105 and 25). I am aware that you can just select everything and rotate the whole building, but there must be a better way... Any ideas? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 If you have VW2008, there is a Rotated Plan mode that will let you dynamically move the plan to whatever angle you need. If you are still on VW12.5 or earlier, upgrade to VW2008 ;-) Pat Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Pre-2008: Ctrl-8, or pull down Page>Set Grid, and type 25 in the box under Grid Angle. Quote Link to comment
newhus Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Thanks Pat. I guess our office will have to upgrade? Bummer. Setting the grid angle isn't what I was looking for, since if I draw a line and command-M it, it still moves in the old x/y direction, etc etc. Is there any other way to achieve this without upgrading the office to 2008? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 The old work around is to make the wing into a symbol and have that symbol instance rotated 25 degrees. Then when you edit the symbol, you can edit in standard X/Y orientation. Might be expensive, but VW2008 is really the better (and probably easier workflow) solution. Pat Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 ... if I draw a line and command-M it, it still moves in the old x/y direction... But if you draw a rectangle, a constrained linear dimension, etc etc, it aligns itself with the grid angle. And if instead of Ctrl-M you move something by dragging it and entering an X or Y coordinate in the data bar, it moves by the distance you typed along a 25 or 115 degree angle. Quote Link to comment
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