DVIEW twist or UCS

[Civil Price]

I am trying to figure out what would be the best/quickest/most simple way to rotate a drawing.

I know dview twist works well. That is what im use to but there has to be an easier way to use it than what i have been doing.
When i use dview twist it is kind of a guessing game to how it will be rotated. I draw a box, align it with what i want to be horizontal in paper space, draw a line to show north so i can make sure my view will be north up or to the right then i rotate it.

Other people at work use the UCS FOLLOW then create names for the views. My problem with that is the coordinates gets screwed up.

What is the Best way to twist a drawing for simple dimensioning and labeling, but still easy inserts from 0,0... like how can i get the quick leader text to still come in horizontal with paper space with the view twisted.

Thanks for any help / advice.

Much appreciated

[smorales02]

Are you creating a viewport than twisting your drawing within that viewport? if you do that you should be able to just dimension in paperspace and everything will read right. Unless Im misunderstanding the problem, it is all a preference thing when it comes to how to do certain things. I have a twist lisp routine that allows to just pick two points tha you want to be horizontal. I can post it tomorrow if youd like...

[lpseifert]

Try putting this in your acaddoc.lsp file

(defun c:ue ()(command "ucs" "e"))
(defun c:uw ()(command "ucs" "w"))
(defun c:uv ()(command "ucs" "v"))
(defun c:up ()(command "ucs" "p"))
(defun c:uo ()
    (setq pt1 (getpoint "Pick reference point: ")
            el (RTOS(* -1.0(getreal "Enter elevation: ")))
            CO (STRCAT "0," el)
              )
    (command "UCS" "o" pt1)
    (command "UCS" "o" CO))

UE will align the UCS to an entity
UW will restore the UCS to World
UV will align the UCS to view (good for annotation)
UP will restore the UCS to the previous
UO will set the UCS to an elevation (Y coordinate)... good for profiles

[Civil Price]

Are you creating a viewport than twisting your drawing within that viewport? if you do that you should be able to just dimension in paperspace and everything will read right. Unless Im misunderstanding the problem, it is all a preference thing when it comes to how to do certain things. I have a twist lisp routine that allows to just pick two points tha you want to be horizontal. I can post it tomorrow if youd like...

we dont dimension in paperspace... and i think that is pretty lame. I just dont have the athority to make that change.

lpseifert: Thanks for the Lisps!!

i want to use UCS and do everything in paperspace. we'll see.

[smorales02]

Ive always dimensioned in paperspace till I got to this new company which likes to show everything in modelspace. So I would come across the same problem you are, my work around was to do all my work in paperspace (dimensions and such) than just do a CHSPACE for all of them...works out good for me, maybe something you should try.

[Civil Price]

yeah same here... I love change space!

Thanks again.

[BOB'27T]

Have you tried using the MVSETUP to rotate your drawing? That's how we rotate our sites.

[SLW210]

Have you tried using the MVSETUP to rotate your drawing? That's how we rotate our sites.

It is MVSETUP>Align>Rotate View. I use that also.

[Civil Price]

Yes i run into some of the same issues as dview twist. Becaues for whatever reason we still dimension & label in model space.

[rustysilo]

I do it like you, draw a line and get the angular dim to input in dview > twist. Then I set my viewport at that twist value and change my snapang for the twisted view to do my notes and such.

This works fine for me, however it seems like there was a way to automate the dview > twist so that you could simply select an object or something to align the view with.