Have you ever rotated a Revit view on your sheet? Those pesky View Titles rotate as well. Jordan shows us how to keep them horizontal on our sheets.
The problem; you rotated your view 90 degrees but you want your view title to stay horizontal.
Scroll down the list of families in the project and under Annotation there will be the family View Title. Right Click on it and say Edit.
In the Family Editor, save it as a new View Title so that you retain your current view title. Turn on the reference planes in the Visibility / Graphic Overrides, select all three items. Rotate these items opposite of what you think to offset the rotation of the view. So if you are rotating the view on the sheet 90 degrees counterclockwise, you have to create a view title with these three items rotated 90 degrees Clockwise. You are counteracting the rotation of the view on the sheet to keep the view title horizontal. Be sure to uncheck "Keep Readable" under the instance properties of the text labels or Revit will try to make the text read up the page, not down. When rotating the number and the titles 90 degrees clockwise, it will flip everything around trying to keep it legible.
Load the family into the project. Select your current View Title, click Edit Type, and duplicate. For the new one, name it appropriately and next to Title under graphics, select the new view title that you created. Be sure to uncheck Show Extension Line. If you would like a line to show between the View Title and the scale, you will need to draw your own in the Family.
The bad news, you will need to follow the same process for views rotated the other direction. The positive, the view scale and Detail Number are retained and you can let Revit manage those pieces of information.
Thank You!
This solved my problem. Why Revit has removed some of AutoCAD's basic sheet view functionality is beyond me.
Posted by: John Bellavance | 05/25/2015 at 03:42 PM
Your Welcome. The methods of accomplishing something similar in Revit to what we are accustomed to in AutoCAD often proves to be different. As software advances so too must our knowledge and use so that we can benefit from the advanced functionalities.
Posted by: Charles Jolin | 05/26/2015 at 09:14 AM
This almost worked for me except the extension line didn't rotate. When I edited my View Title family the line wasn't in there so I couldn't rotate it. Also I would like to rotate my view on the sheet but not rotate my annotative text. Is there a way to do that without annotating on the sheet itself?
Posted by: Jason | 05/28/2015 at 03:06 PM
If you look in the second to last paragraph, you need to turn off the extension line provided out of the box. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do to control that line. You can turn it on and off and specify the line weight, but that's about it. If you want an extension line, unfortunately you have to draw your own.
Posted by: Jordan | 06/02/2015 at 02:29 PM
Rotate the Crop window the angle you want and boom, there you go. No need to edit any families.
Posted by: Bernard Villarreal | 10/15/2015 at 11:51 AM