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    I'm having trouble with an x-ref I have to insert. The x-ref drawing is of the elevations of a house. I put up a screen shot of the drawing. basically I have to insert them so that on one page you can see the north and south elevations and then on another the east and west- so there is 2 viewports on each page.
    My problem is this- when I attach the x-ref and get it in the right place one of the elevations is upside down. What do I do to get it right side up? Is it as simple as rotating the elevation in the actual drawing? or do I insert it 2 times?
    I have no idea what I should do. This has never happened to me before and I don't have too much experience with this kind of thing.
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    You can rotate your view inside the viewport without affecting your drawing. You can use the MVSETUP command for this.

    Command: MVSETUP
    Enter an option [Align/Create/Scale viewports/Options/Title block/Undo]: A
    Enter an option [Angled/Horizontal/Vertical alignment/Rotate view/Undo]: R
    Specify basepoint in the viewport with the view to be rotated: (Click to set a point inside your viewport to rotate around)
    Specify angle from basepoint: (Type in the amount of rotation)

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    I usually creat named ucs for each elevation & while seting up the viewports I set the relavent ucs as current for that particular elevation.
    No need to rotate or copy.
    It is also very easy to work on elevations in line drawing if you have named ucs for each elevation.
    you have to do it for each file i.e. line drawings as well as layout files seperately.
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    Well, I finally finished the drawing!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cad64 View Post
    You can rotate your view inside the viewport without affecting your drawing. You can use the MVSETUP command for this.

    Command: MVSETUP
    Enter an option [Align/Create/Scale viewports/Options/Title block/Undo]: A
    Enter an option [Angled/Horizontal/Vertical alignment/Rotate view/Undo]: R
    Specify basepoint in the viewport with the view to be rotated: (Click to set a point inside your viewport to rotate around)
    Specify angle from basepoint: (Type in the amount of rotation)
    I tried using mvsetup but when I typed it in the command line it said that it was an unknown command. I was using an LT version for this project. Was there something that I didn't install correctly? or is it because it won't work on LT? I did just try it here at work- it's a full version- and it worked. So that's why I'm thinking it's the LT thing.
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