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Rotating True North

Rotating True North

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Rotating True North

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- I have a really simple one for you today. I wanna talk about rotating True North. Now at some point in the project, you're gonna want to rotate your True North and make it match the actual geographic position of north on your project site. You might do that to get your shadows correct, so that the shadows are casting in the correct angle relative to the building. You might do that just to get the site orientation correct on your Site Plan. So when you're ready to rotate the True North, the best place to do it is in a Site Plan, but you can actually do it in any plan view. So it's really up to you. But I'm in a Site Plan view, and the project that you have open really doesn't matter. You can do this in any project. Make sure that there are no objects selected, and look at the Properties pallet. Scroll down, and you'll notice that there's an Orientation property. And it can have two values: Project North or True…

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