Mirrored viewports for left and right hand plans (from x-ref)

[demolition21]

Was wondering if anyone had a solution to creating a LH and RH floor plan based on one master x-ref or just a master floor plan within the drawing.

 

When using a creating/editing a residential floor plan, we typically use both RH and LH versions of it... it would be nice if there was a way to edit just one "swing" instead of changing both (or having to re-copy and mirror every time)

 

My though was to mirror the viewport, but that doesn't do anything, and changing the UCS to bottom view also flips all the text and makes it unreadable. I figure there's got to be a way to does this.... any help is appreciated. Thanks, in advance.

[JoeC]

I'm probably not completely understanding your issue, but can't you just mirror the entire floorplan in model space and set your MIRRTEXT variable to 0 so the text isn't mirrored?

[demolition21]

That's basically what I have been doing, but when making a change, say to the Left hand floor plan, it would be nice if the RH was "updated" concurrently.

 

Same goes for elevations, so rather than actually having the LH and RH drawn separately, I would like to just have ONE drawn, that can somehow be mirrored in a view port.

 

Make sense?

[JoeC]

Yes. I understand mo' better now.

 

Maybe you could have the floorplan and text as separate drawings / xrefs / or blocks. Then mirror your floorplan x-ref and text separately. The text would mirror but still be legible with with the MIRRTEXT set at 0, and use a common reference point to place the text back over your mirrored floorplan. (hopefully your text is on its own layer)

 

There proably is a better / easier way, but this would be doable.

[DVDM]

We use a similar setup to detail components which have left hand and right hand configurations.

I manipulate my ucs (rotate 180deg around y-axis), and set my view to that, so that I'm essentially looking at my component from behind.

All my text and dimensions will be mirrored.

To turn all these dimensions and text around so I can read them again, I create a copy, put them on a new layer for the opposite dimension, and then I use the Mirror3D command to flip my text and dimensions around.

See the file attached as an example.

Opposite Dimension.dwg

[Dana W]

Back in the early 1970's I worked for a subdivision developer/builder drawing house plans on paper (you know, that semi-transparent white stuff). We built many houses from the same plans, both "As Shown" and "Reverse" floorplans. We never drew or even printed reversed drawings at all.

 

One day, I began to feel the urgent need for some sort of automated drawing tool, possibly using that new thing called a computer. What made me see this need was watching a framing carpenter hold the blueline print of the floor plan up to the sun to view it from the back. He needed to build a "Reverse" plan house.

 

I know that story didn't help much, but anyway.....

 

I tried once recently to make the floorplans a block without dimensions, so it could be revised and thereby automatically update the As shown and previously mirrored reverse plans at the same time. Since both plans still had to have some of the dimensions changed anyway, it didn't seem to add much efficiency, so I don't do it any more.

Edited July 26, 2010 by Dana W
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