To turn one plan, select its crop region, click Rotate (RO) and type an angle. To turn every plan, use Manage tab › Project Location panel › Position › Rotate Project North. Rotation on Sheet turns a placed view 90°.
Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to rotate a plan's crop to match an angled wing.
How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Pick the right kind of rotation
Rotate the crop region to turn one view. Rotate Project North to turn every plan set to Project North, which is how an angled building sits square across the whole set. Rotate True North only to record real-world north for the site, shadows, solar studies and energy analysis (Autodesk Help: About Project North and True North).
Step 2: Show and select the crop region
Open the plan, click Show Crop Region on the View Control Bar, and click the crop boundary to select it. If Rotate isn't available, set the view's Orientation to Project North in the Properties palette (Autodesk Help: Rotate a View by the Crop Region).
Step 3: Rotate the crop
Click Modify | <view type> tab › Modify panel › Rotate (RO). Type the angle in Angle on the contextual tab and press Enter, or click a first ray along the crop edge you want square and a second ray along the wall it should match. In Revit 2025, Angle is on the Options Bar.
Step 4: Expect the model to turn the other way
The crop region stays square to the screen, so the model appears to rotate in the opposite direction to the crop. Only this view changes: the model and the other plans stay as they were.
Step 5: Rotate Project North for the whole set
In a plan set to Project North, click Manage tab › Project Location panel › Position › Rotate Project North. Pick an angle, or choose Align selected line or plane and click a wall or reference plane in the angled wing (Autodesk Help: Rotate Project North).
Step 6: Prepare a workshared model first
Rotate Project North turns model elements and view-specific details in every plan set to Project North. In a workshared model, have everyone check in their changes and close it first, then synchronize and have everyone make a new local copy.
Step 7: Set True North for the site
Open the site plan and set its Orientation to True North. Click Manage tab › Project Location panel › Position › Rotate True North, then enter the angle from Project to True North, or drag the rotation control to a guide line that points north.
Step 8: Turn a placed view 90° on a sheet
Select the viewport on the sheet without activating it, and choose an option for Rotation on Sheet in the Properties palette. The view and its title turn 90° clockwise or counterclockwise together (Autodesk Help: Rotate a View on a Sheet).
What to watch for
A scope box owns the crop. A plan that uses a scope box takes its crop from the box, so turn the scope box instead, and every view that uses it turns too. See how to use scope boxes.
True North doesn't move your plans. Rotating True North sets the real-world direction for shadows, solar studies and analysis. Plans set to Project North look the same afterwards.
Rotate Project North early. It turns plans only: drafting views, callouts of plans and other view types don't follow. It also turns text notes in those plans unless you tick Maintain text note orientation during rotation.
Line it up by clicking, not by typing. For an angled wing, start the rotation along the crop edge you want square and finish on the wing's wall, so the angle comes from the model instead of a guess.
Rotation on Sheet turns the title too. It only works in 90° steps, so use it to fit a tall plan on a wide sheet, not to square up an angle. To line rotated views up from sheet to sheet, see how to align views on sheets.
Every wing plan needs the same turn. An angled wing often has an enlarged plan on each floor, each with its own crop rotated by hand. One turned 29.5° instead of 30° won't line up with the floor above it on the sheet, and nobody notices until the set is aligned. Turning a list of plans by one measured angle is the repetitive part an AI agent for Revit can take on, with you approving each change.
Or, just ask Mira to do it.
Mira is an AI thinking partner for Revit that automates the work you repeat and builds tools your team needs.
- Type this in Mira
Rotate this floor plan's crop region 30° so the east wing sits square on the sheet.
Mira checks that the plan is set to Project North and has no scope box, reads the angle of the wing's walls, and asks before it turns anything. Rotating the crop needs a small tool Mira writes, which asks Allow first, and one Ctrl+Z puts the view back.
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- How to Create a Section View in RevitOpen a plan and click View tab › Create panel › Section. Pick a section type, click the start and end of the section line, and drag the dashed crop to set its width and depth. Double-click the section head to open it. Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to cut a named section along a grid line.
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