From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
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Rotate a section line
From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Rotate a section line
- [Instructor] One of the blogs I follow is RevitCat, by Tim Waldock. And he posts a lot of really great tips on using Revit. And, so, you know, you should check his blog out. And, recently, one of the tips he posted was this one right here, that I have open on screen, how to Accurately Rotate a Section. So, the example that he's showing there, in the diagram, you can see very clearly what the problem is. You might have a section at some angle that doesn't match the angle of the surrounding geometry. And the reason that could be problematic is, when symbolic geometry comes into play, like, for example, looking at that door, you can see that it's not showing the swing direction. Which, a little further down, you can see there is actually a swing angle there. But then you can also see, by these skewed dimensions and filled region here, what the other problem is. That whatever the plane of the section is, that's the plane that…
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