Views Placed on Sheet not Rotated to 90 Degrees

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I seem to be having this problem where if I place a view on a sheet, it places itself at a strange angle so I have to rotate the view back to 90 degrees.

It seems to happen on all my views, whether I drag them onto the sheet or choose 'Place on Layout'.

I am using AC14 in 64bit Windows 7.

Please help!

Thanks,
Samuel

[Karl Ottenstein]

The default setting for your Drawing Tool probably have a rotation angle set. When you drag and drop a view, it is placed with whatever settings are assigned to the Drawing Tool.

Cheers,
Karl

[vistasp]

You can also use the eyedropper on the sheet to pick up settings of a drawing that is configured in the way you want. This affects all the drawing settings - not just orientation - so it can be very useful.

[Anonymous]

If the drawing FRAME and TITLE are lined up with your sheet, but the view of the MODEL WITHIN is rotated, your saved view has a rotated orientation.

There is no way for you to be able to see that this rotated orientation parameter has been saved. If you rotate your model so that it lines up vertically in plan and get rid of the rotated orientation, that parameter is still stuck in the saved view, BUT ONLY WHEN YOU PLACE IT ON A SHEET! Activating the saved view won't recall the "saved" rotated orientation in the model view.

If this is the case, you can do one of 2 things:
1) You can rotate each drawing on your sheets and manually adjust the title until everything is all straight, or

2) You can rotate your model so that it lines up with your sheet and get rid of the rotated orientation. Once you've rotated your model, you need to go back through your saved views and use the "Get Current Window Settings" button in order to clear that hidden rotated orientation setting

I have chosen the latter option on my work mainly because it appears that the Rotated Orientation command is full of bugs (in addition to the situation described above):
1) If you have a rotated orientation over a trace reference and you print that view with the trace reference visible, the trace reference will shift its location in the print results.
2) If you have a rotated orientation and you try to draw a rectangular detail bubble around something, the actual detail bubble will end up in a different place, and trying to move/adjust it will cause the bubble to change its shape according to someone else's desires.
3) If you don't have a rotated orientation, but then add it, your detail bubbles will shift their position and rotation.

I have told Graphisoft about these bugs since ArchiCAD 13. It got fixed in the last hotfix for AC13, and has been broken ever since.

[Anonymous]

I think you have saved your views while your floorplan had a rotated view.
-Activate your view
-Go to the floorplan using the project map (or short cut F2)
-Reset your orientation in the floorplan
-Go to the section/elevation/floorplan in the project map
-Open settings of the view and choose Get current Windows Settings

[vfrontiers]

Loosely related, I have a ROTATED View and have placed it on a layout.. Then, I changed some Room Name Text blocks to ZONES. While all looks fabulous in the Floor Plan window, all the zone texts get rotated in the layout...

It can't be a parameter setting, cuz it looks great in Floor Plan...

Ugh... I have not tried CAPTURE CURRENT WINDOW settings in the View Settings yet... Maybe that's my answer...

[David Maudlin]

Duane:

Not sure if this is relevant in your situation, but there are two options for the Zone Stamp Angle (Relative and Absolute) that relate to the Rotate Orientation feature.

David

[vfrontiers]

Dave,

That would have been too easy...

The fix was easy enough... Go back through the 8 stories and SAVE CURRENT WINDOW for each of the views.. Then rotate back, show entire drawing and re-crop to layout...

Don't know if anyone else is on board with this, but I feel the UCS rotation should be a PARAMETER of the VIEW SETTINGS... Here I can lock in and globally change views to orient as the mood fits (or the project dictates)...

I don't think it needs to be tied to the WINDOW VIEW at the time... I should be able to have a SITE rotation at 0deg and a Plan Rotation at 30deg with all the benefits of the text rotations as part of the VIEW SETTINGS.. Then, by merely calling up a view, the UCS will rotate to the saved angle...

My two cents.... now back to work...