Hello,
I have a road alignment survey with main road going in a 45 degree angle. To save on sheets, I need to orient the titleblocks to follow the alignment on a 45 degree angle. I was planning on doing this in sheet/paper view but rotating each sheet and creating grid lines with coordinates is a bit too complicated. I talking of approximately 150 A3 size sheets.
Is there any software that would do this? I just need each resulting sheet that's rotated to have the rotated gridlines automatically labeled to the original true north values when the sheets are oriented horizontal.
Any suggestions? Thanks again.
Carlson Twist Screen
You do not rotate coordinate grids. Only the values need to be inserted into each sheet. You can do this using the change space command in paper space. You can save each sheet as a view and use that view on its sheet in the view port. All of this is a "one time" set up for each sheet.
FrancisH, post: 328663, member: 10211 wrote: Hello,
I have a road alignment survey with main road going in a 45 degree angle. To save on sheets, I need to orient the titleblocks to follow the alignment on a 45 degree angle. I was planning on doing this in sheet/paper view but rotating each sheet and creating grid lines with coordinates is a bit too complicated. I talking of approximately 150 A3 size sheets.Is there any software that would do this? I just need each resulting sheet that's rotated to have the rotated gridlines automatically labeled to the original true north values when the sheets are oriented horizontal.
Any suggestions? Thanks again.
Using Paper Space is the best solution. You are not rotating your title block or your coordinates, rather you are just twisting your view of model space.
While in your layout tab, activate the viewport by double clicking inside the "window". Then issue the DVIEW command, followed by TW (for twist). Select a few entities for display reference, then enter your desired angle. Type X (for exit). Next check your viewport scale by typing VPSCALE. Once your happy with the twist, position and scale, go back to paper space and select the viewport frame. Under the object properties, there will be an option to lock the viewport. This will keep you from accidentally changing the scale.
Another trick is to draw a rectangle around the viewport (while in paper space), then convert that rectangle from paper space to model space (leaving it up to you to find that command). Basically what you are doing is creating viewport outlines for an sheet index.
MVSETUP ALIGN ROTATE angle
Civil 3d?
If so......
Use Sheet Manager. Last time I used it I did all the viewports for a 50 page plan in about 30 min.
Granted there was a lot of drafting after the fact, it just made the viewports for me.
If that's to complicated, Create your viewport in paperspace, zoom into your drawing area,
and run this handy lisp routine I named planview.lsp
1st Click sets what you want on the left side of your screen, second rotates that point to the right,
then it sets your snapang to match.
Here is the code for Planview.lsp
Use notepad and save it somewhere in you autodesk path
(defun c:PLANVIEW ()
(setq pt1 (getpoint "Pick two points you wish make your view display a
the pos x axis: ") pt2 (getpoint pt1 ""))
(setq a (- (* 2 pi) (angle pt1 pt2)))
(command "dview" "" "tw" (r2d a) "")
(command "snap" "r" "" (r2d (* a -1)))
(command "snap" "off")
(princ))
(defun r2d (rad / r2d)
(setq r2d (/ (* rad 180) pi)) ;rad times 180/pi
)
; D2R converts degree angle to radians
(defun d2r (deg / d2r)
(setq d2r (/ (* deg pi) 180)) ;deg * pi /180
)
(PRINC)
Should work on any autodesk product from LDD 2000 to C3D 2016.
I can into more detail if you don't know how to load a lisp file.
This also works in plain old model space too.
Bo
In microstation you could use a view for each sheet and rotate view or create match lines and reference file for each sheet then clip and turn on only the one being printed.
vanhank222, post: 328743, member: 8673"]In microstation you could use a view for each sheet and rotate view or create match lines and reference file for each sheet then clip and turn on only the one being printed.
Mucrodtst
MicroStation with InRoads will cut sheets along an alignment. Create models for each, label match lines and fill in title blocks. Can also cut profile at same time to display plan profile sheets. When setup correcly, it would take less than one minute.
Thanks guys.
I draw most of my plans in Microstation so never really used paper space in Autocad.
In microstation, we would cut up our plans in horizontal rotation no matter how many
sheets resulted. These were mostly done for large topography plots.
But now I have a client that wants the scale to be in 1/100! So this has resulted in
A LOT of sheets.
Will try the microstation approach first then export everything to DWG.
Hope nothing gets lost in translation....
Good day folks! Thanks.
FrancisH, post: 328663, member: 10211 wrote: Hello,
I have a road alignment survey with main road going in a 45 degree angle. To save on sheets, I need to orient the titleblocks to follow the alignment on a 45 degree angle. I was planning on doing this in sheet/paper view but rotating each sheet and creating grid lines with coordinates is a bit too complicated. I talking of approximately 150 A3 size sheets.Is there any software that would do this? I just need each resulting sheet that's rotated to have the rotated gridlines automatically labeled to the original true north values when the sheets are oriented horizontal.
Any suggestions? Thanks again.
You can do it in Model Space in AutoCAD. Just XREF your base drawing into each sheet and translate rotate the XREF to your hearts content. XCLIP the XREF to your seet limits and you're done.
You can do it in Model Space in AutoCAD. Just XREF your base drawing into each sheet and translate rotate the XREF to your hearts content. XCLIP the XREF to your seet limits and you're done.
But will each titleblock rectangle view have its gridlines/coordinates labeled in their correct original view? Or will the numbers be based on the rotated view?
