AutoCAD Tutorial: How to Rotate View in viewport

In todays video I go over how to use the dview (dv) command in autocad to rotate (twist) the view in your layouts viewport.

This easy and quick trick can save you a ton of time and keep your drawings consistant and looking great.

If you have any questions at all just ask in the comments below.

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[ghassandiwan]

when i need something in cad i just go to YouTube and see, but it takes a lot of time to find the exact thing i am looking for, except you i find exactly what i want in very easy way thanks for the perfect solutions

[nichollewrightaicp]

Thank you for the fast and effective tutorial. Much appreciated.

[architectehasni]

It is well explained . Thank you from Tunisia. :-)

[lincolnlagasi]

how can you rotate the paper space? I have a my layout set up with the long ways horizontal and want to view the drawing with the layout vertical. Working on a tall object on a ledger size layout.

[olgavoyl]

This command is the only one that worked for me, thanks

[gintsklavins]

thank You. It was very useful. God bless You!

[kwasiosei]

Hi Brandon, thanks for this great video. please could you also assist in how to generate a DTM in Autocad, as shown at the later part of this video. thanks.

[muadzzamabdhalim]

thanks.. very useful for road construction dwg

[lovrokozar]

thanks a lot, this really helped me, this vas very fast, effective and simple to understand

[dtbala]

thanks for the info. works fine but except if i have multiple viewports in a sheet and if i rotate the drawing in one viewport it afffects the other viewports also eve if it is locked. do u have a solution for this

[Micarmn]

thanks for the video. when i use option 2, when modifying the drawing in paper space it appears the entire page is rotated making it somewhat difficult to make changes to your drawing in paper space. i can easily go to model space to make changes but there are times i prefer to make changes in paper space. any help with this? thank u

[lourdesgabrielabalderramao]

Thanks for sharing! I'm suscribing now :) Another way would be to find the angle you need to rotate your drawing (for me it measured 19° so I chose the outer angle which was 341°), rotated my viewport directly on layout using that angle, (the VP polyline is not restricted so you can edit it to match the rest of your drawing if you are a little obsessive like me :-) ) and then rotated my north sign with the same angle and voilá ;) my drawing in model is undisturbed and my layout is just like I needed it to be.

[andrewjordan]

thanks, this helped in civil 3d 2010 for me.

[mikemoren]

Thanks for this!  Much better than Autodesk's knowledge base instructions, which instructed one to use VPROTATEASSOC command, which did not work for me.

[nxuyjjg]

This was about the simplest explanation I have had. Everything else was so complex and unnecessary, it drove me nuts.

[TangTuyetMinh]

I used "alignspace" command for this.

[tadthurston]

I don't see the list of choices where it asks for what you want to select after the DV command. Currently using Autocad Civil 3D 2017. I can type in "all" as you show but I would like to see the list of choices as well, as it shows in your program.

[niceupyourareaaa]

Dview command is not available on AutoCAD 2019 Light

[ronberrype]

Yeah, but how to you align it such that an object, such as a house wall, is aligned straight up and down?