Rotate Plan in Sheet Layer?

[Ed Wachter]

Is the "rotate plan" command supposed to work only on design layers? It would really help me right now while dimensioning on sheet layers. I don't see an error message. It just doesn't work.

Thanks

Ed

[PVA - Admin]

Only in design layers for the time being. Normally when dimensioning you can just rotate the viewport as a whole, dimension within annotations, then exit annotations and rotate the viewport into its final position, the annotations will rotate to follow it.

[CipesDesign]

Yes, Rotated Top Plan is for Design Layers. In Sheet Layer you can simply rotate the Viewport using the Rotate command. Does that help?

[Ed Wachter]

Yes. I guess it's easy enough to rotate the viewport. Thanks.

[PVA - Admin]

Submitting a request to allow plan rotation in Sheet Layers, although I suppose it would then be more of a per-sheet rotation and automatically reset to 0 before printing/exporting.

[CipesDesign]

Not sure this is needed. We can already create a VP of a rotated plan. What's the difference?

[PVA - Admin]

If they have a plan with multiple angled components (Ive seen this in Y shaped hospitals and other large buildings that get wings added to them over time at odd angles) I can see use for being able to rotate the final sheet in order to dimension within annotations, rather than dimensioning on the design layer in rotated plan view.

However, rotating the viewport effectively allows the same thing and is almost the same amount of clicks it would be to use rotated plan for each viewport anyway.

Maybe the ability to rotate the plan view while editing annotations directly would make more sense? Having it pop back into no rotation after exiting the viewport annotations?

[CipesDesign]

Hi Jim, Maybe I'm mistaken, but can't we already dimension in the annotations of a VP created from a rotated plan? In other words, hasn't this particular wheel already been invented?

FWIW, the only reason I commented in the first place was that I think there are WAY more important things for the programmers to be working on instead of yet another totally redundant (and therefore often confusing) functionality...

[PVA - Admin]

Yes, I was thinking more along the line of a plan that needed to be dimensioned, but needed to be rotated in plan repeatedly throughout the dimensioning. For instance one set of dims at 0, one set at 45 and one set at negative 45.

If it just needs one rotation, then creating a viewport of an already rotated plan would work just fine.