Rotating a viewport in 2007LT

[ChrisHarper]

I am trying to rotate a survey in layout view so that it will print at 1:1000 on an A0 piece of paper as the survey is orientated NE\SW. When I try and rotate it in viewport so that it is aligned to the paper following advice already on the forum, and then go back to model space the co-ordiantes have changed. It is a important that the co-ordinates remain correct in model space as this is a real world hydrographic survey.

Can anyone help me please.

[Glen1980]

Create a new UCS oriented the way you want the drawing to print. I alway drew a line in that direction typed UCS then E (for object) and clicke dto the right end of the line which moves and rotates the UCS.

 

Go to paper space unlock and open the viewport and type Plan then C (for current UCS) thedrawing inside the viewport will then zoom out to the full extent of the drawing and rotate to the direction you want. You will have to reset the scale of your view port however.

[bill_borec]

An easy way is to use the 'DVIEW' command from the paper space window. click into the model space viewport and enter 'DVIEW', then 'T' or 'TWIST' and set the angle of rotation ('-45' degrees? to achieve a NE orientation). Play around with the dview-twist and you'll get it. It simply rotates the view within the viewport and does not change the UCS or coordinates.

Hope it helps.

[SLW210]

_MVSETUP>ALIGN>ROTATE VIEW

 

What have you tried so far?

[RobDraw]

_MVSETUP>ALIGN>ROTATE VIEW

 

That is the mothod I would use.

[ChrisHarper]

I have tried Dview and MVsetup but both commands are unavailable in the 2007Lt version unless there is a setting to activate the commands.

 

I will try Glen 1980 suggestion again tomorrow but when I tried new UCS and plan commands the real world co-ordinates changed

[eyde]

All you need to do is use the rotate command. Rotate the viewport as you would any other object.

[RobDraw]

I think that feature was new with 2011.

[Glen1980]

Chris

 

Sorry mate, I forgot to say once you have done the plan command lock your view port and then you can put the UCS back to world

 

eyde, the rotate command was definitely new to LT2011, to my knowledge LT didn't have dview or mvsetup.

[Glen1980]

Woo! I managed to make my 300th comment something useful!

[ChrisHarper]

Glen1980

 

Thanks for your advice it works - excellent, you do not know how frustrating this has been

Thanks again

Chris

[Glen1980]

I know the pain of having LT and missing out on all these cool sounding commands.

 

After 4 years I've managed to blag the unused office copy of full AutoCAD this month as we were running out of LT licences