topic View rotation with site plan in Modeling

View rotation with site plan

Tom Krowka — Fri, 14 May 2004 18:24:07 GMT

If I rotate a drawing that is pulled from a view in Archicad, is there any way to rotate it but still have the text from the original drawing horizontal?
I'm talking about plotmaker here.

I'm trying to work out the best way to do a building on the site for both drawing purposes and for the site plan. The site plan always has to be rotated to fit onto a drawing sheet because of it's size or peculiar configuration. It won't always work to rotate the site in ArchiCad to match the way the building is drawn. Then it does not fit on the sheet in Plotmaker.

If I was comparing this to AutoCad, the notes and text would go on the plotmaker sheet which takes of this problem. But it seems plotmaker has a lot of stuff missing that would make this process easy.

What's the typical way to do site plans with AC & Plotmaker

Re: View rotation with site plan

Anonymous — Fri, 14 May 2004 18:29:38 GMT

Separate your site plan text and notes on their own layer and orient them according to what you need in PM. You can use the alternate/rotated grid to make this easier.

Re: View rotation with site plan

Tom Krowka — Sat, 15 May 2004 00:59:02 GMT

Is there any way to rotate the view, then put the text and notes in on a true vertical and horizontal. Then I could just rotate the whole view back, with the text, and everything would come out right for PM.

Putting in text and notes sideways makes me dizzy.

Re: View rotation with site plan

Anonymous — Sat, 15 May 2004 01:41:23 GMT

Sure.

The simplest is to temporarily rotate the site plan layers so the text is orthagonal (square to the screen) and the rotate it back when you are done.

Another option would be to make the site plan a separate PLN and hotlink the drawing into the main project file.

Re: View rotation with site plan

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:21:12 GMT

Hello, I am having the same problem. The search facility here is good!
Is there no way of rotating the view ("camera"?) of the model plan without actually rotating the parts or is it really a fixed view? I tried the skewed grid and it doesn't change the view angle, unless I'm missing something.
I am getting the hang of rotating the views in PM and keeping the titles in the right spot!

Cheers
Colin

Re: View rotation with site plan

Stress Co_ — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:03:55 GMT

I'm doing the same thing ..... That is, rotating my site plan in PM and inputting all my text for that sheet on a 225 degree angle (for it to plot horizontally).

My problem is ...... I can't get the label tool to rotate the text in AC. It doesn't want the text to be upside-down.

Am I missing something?

Grazie,

Marc

Re: View rotation with site plan

Stress Co_ — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:24:25 GMT

I'm having the same problem with dimension text.

There's a better way to do this right??

Marco

Re: View rotation with site plan

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:50:53 GMT

I'm doing the same thing ..... That is, rotating my site plan in PM and inputting all my text for that sheet on a 225 degree angle (for it to plot horizontally).

My problem is ...... I can't get the label tool to rotate the text in AC. It doesn't want the text to be upside-down.

Am I missing something?

It sounds like you should consider what Matthew sugested as an alternate method. Create a seperate Archicad file for your site and hotlink in the elements from the building into this new pln file. The site can be at the oreintation that you want to output and the hotlinked building can be rotated to the corect orientation on the site.