Rotate View

Hi, How do you rotate the view in Autocad (not just an object - but the whole view)? Thanks!

If you mean in viewports/paperspace:

Open the viewport (make sure it isn't viewport locked)

create a new ucs in the direction you want the view rotated to. [uCS], [E] then select a line in that direction is my way of doing that.

[plan] then [c] to select current viewport.

The drawing will rotate in that viewport but not in any others or in model space. You will have to reset your viewport scale as the command automatically zooms to extents.

To do that in modelspace set the UCS then [plan] then [c]. If in model space you will almost cetainly want to put the UCS back to world at some point so save your UCS my opening the UCS manager and giving the UCS a name.

Hope this helps

3D or 2D? You can rotate the UCS or 3DRotate you have 3D Views also. What are you trying to accomplish?

Are you rotating a view in a paperspace layout?

Yes? Use the MVSETUP command and its options "Align viewports", "Rotate view".

Like Glen1980 the advantage in using a UCS for us is that things like text are orientated along the ucs axis 90 or 0 and ortho works for square off when on the new ucs.

Always save it so at any time you can go to world. We generally only set ucs's in paperspace layout tabs and not in the model.

We try to set our floor plans out to the world coords to match the Ordnance Survey coords the surveyors provide to help our civils guys. I then set the named UCS to align to the walls and run the plan command to help me! Also 2010LT has changed the way viewports work so I can just rotate the viewport and the contents go with it.

..... 2010LT has changed the way viewports work so I can just rotate the viewport and the contents go with it.

I did not know this. Thanks for pointing it out Glen, I always found rotating views a bit of a headache.

VPROTATEASSOC is the system variable. When I installed 2010 it was defaulted to on so I just have to rotate, then use the clip viewport to polyline command to tidy up. LT is is definitely catching up with full AutoCAD for useful commands on the 2D front.