Rotating the Plan

In a design layer, the view may need to be rotated to match a drawing angle. When the plan is rotated, the view switches to Rotated Top/Plan, and all existing layers are rotated together.

The View bar has a button for quick access to the Rotate Plan command. Double-click the button to disable the rotation animation if desired. The animation can also be disabled by pressing the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Macintosh).

To rotate the plan:

1.	Select View > Rotate Plan, or click Rotate Plan from the View bar.

2.	Click to indicate the center of plan rotation, and then click again to indicate the angle of plan rotation. The angle snaps to existing objects.

The angle of plan rotation can also be specified from the floating data bar, or entered directly in the View bar. The drawing rotates around plan center (0, 0) when the angle is specified in the View bar.

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All layers in the drawing rotate to match the specified angle. (If some layers were in a 3D view, they will lose this view since all layers in the drawing are set to Rotated Top/Plan; confirm that this is the desired action.) Symbols placed and objects drawn while in this view match the current rotation angle.

At the bottom left of the drawing window, the position of the X - Y axis indicator shows the drawing rotation angle and direction.

The View bar indicates that the drawing has been rotated; the icon next to the layers in the Layers list changes, and the Current View list displays “Rotated Top/Plan.” Once the drawing has been rotated, a different rotation angle can be specified with Rotate Plan in the View bar.

A red line indicates the previous rotation angle, if the Rotate Plan command is selected again.

To “un-rotate” the view, returning to the world coordinate system, select View > Standard Views > Top/Plan, select Top/Plan from the View bar, or enter an angle of 0 for Rotate Plan in the View bar.

The plan rotation can be saved as a view and restored later by selecting the view for display. Select Save View Orientation in the Save View dialog box to save the plan rotation (see Creating Saved Views).

Saved views with rotation information display with a rotated icon in the View column of the Organization dialog box. Sorting by the View column separates non-rotated views from the rotated views.