Revit UCS: How to rotate a view into straight position?

Monday Tip N.7: “UCS” for plan views? + Easier and more efficient modeling in inclined regions

We all love orthogonally oriented plans as one can snap to 90 degree angles with that shift key for a more efficient modeling.
But what about rotated regions? How can one deal with these areas and avoid frustration when snapping to non-regularly oriented walls? And what if that inclined region needs to be enlarged on its sheet? Shouldn’t it be vertically oriented?

So, what can you do? Rotate that screen? Turn your head in that direction? You’d hurt your neck! There must be another way!

One method is to use a rotated scope box. However, the purpose of a scope box is to be used on several multi-story zones and multiple views, and when it is exclusive for one view it does more harm than good.

As an analogy to the AutoCAD UCS, you’d want to have a local coordinate system where the plan is rotated.

That can be achieved by first measuring the required angle, turning that crop region visibility property on, and then selecting the crop box and rotating it, which thus rotates the view as well.

That way you can work with ease, snap to that 90 degree angle you’re used to, and keep that enlarged region straight when you place it on your sheet.

Cheers!

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[TScott-mrxf]

At 1st I was like there's no sound... Then I paid attention 😳😳🤯🤓 This is God level Teaching. A 5 year old could do this after watching this video.

[pietpadda]

My preferred method is to rotate scope boxes and apply them to the view (auto rotates to scope box). It is too cumbersome to manually rotate views + you cannot "reset" the view; however, setting the scope box to none or the "site" scope box resets it. Et voila!

Process: Scope box + horizontal detail line over a wall to align to. Rotate SB with centre point where line crosses aligning wall and rotate.

[uyqexzu]

OOO AM SEARCHING FOR THISSS A LOOOONG TIME THANK YOU <3

[b_gumm]

If the rotate tool option is grayed out, set the view to project north within properties 1st. This will resolve your issue!

[lawrencewong]

if you rotate it, the WHOLE model is rotated! how do you prevent that>!

[RandalGriffice]

Are you kidding me....why have I never thought of this...