Then I noted the angle that is shown in the command line. In the picture shown below, I used the DISTANCE command and picked 2 points. To find out the angle of the existing objects, use either the LIST or DISTANCE (aliases: LIST = LI, DISTANCE = DI) command on an objects that represents the desired angle. We will need to do this seperately because there is not an option for a reference like there is in the Rotate command ( shown here)

It merely rotates the view of the objects.īefore we begin, you will need to find out the angle that the view will be rotated by. And it should be noted that this does not rotate any objects thus modifying any of the objects. The method of rotating the view within a viewport that is described in this post is called “DVIEW with a Twist”. This method rotates the entire viewport and the view of objects shown in the viewport. Side Note: A simple approach that might be applicable can be found here: VPROTATEASSOC. And it so happens that the portion that is not aligned to zero needs to have a viewport aligned to it and dimension applied to it. One axis happens to be aligned on the zero degree axis and the other is not.

Shown below is a house that has 2 major axis. For this reason when we want to make our model aligned with the sheet of paper. Not everything that we draft or model in AutoCAD is at 90 degree increments.

Cad for mac rotate view in viewport