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View Windows

rent view is saved or not, you will be Text objects rotate with the plan unless you
prompted to give the new view a name. uncheck Rotate with Plan in the Text
Specification dialog for each object. See
There are three ways to open a saved plan “Rich Text Specification Dialog” on page
view:
493.
• Select a view from the Saved Plan View
Rotate Plan View only affects the currently
Control drop-down in the tool- active plan view. If you would like the
bars. current plan view to retain its rotation the
• Right-click on a Plan View in the Project next time it is opened, check Remember
Browser and select Open View from the Zoom/Rotation in its specification dialog.
contextual menu. See “Saved Plan View Specification Dialog”
• If a saved plan view has been sent to lay- on page 156.
out, select its layout box and click the
If you use Rotate Plan View and then
Open View edit button. See “Editing
Layout Views” on page 1289. use either the CAD Detail from View o r
Plan Footprint tool, the CAD Detail
Rotate Plan View window that is created will permanently
inherit the same rotation as the floor plan
To rotate everything in a plan view, view. If you later modify the floor plan
including all objects on all floors, the view’s rotation, the CAD Detail will not be
Snap and Reference Grids, the plan’s affected. See “CAD Details” on page 333
Cartesian coordinates, and the drawing sheet, and “Plan Footprint” on page 335.
select Tools> Rotate Plan View to open the
Rotate Plan View dialog.
The Rotate Plan View tool does not
rotate objects; it literally rotates your
view of those objects. As a result, it does not
alter the orientation of the plan in layout views
or on the printed page.

Closing View Windows
Enter the degrees to rotate the floor plan
view to using decimal units with either There are a number of ways to close view
positive or negative values. The degrees windows. See “Closing Views and Files” on
rotated displays in ±180º format. For page 164.
example, if you enter 270º, it displays as -90º
when the dialog is reopened.

Rotate Plan View rotates a plan relative
to its original orientation. For example,
entering 90º twice results in a rotation of 90º,
not 180º.

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