# Created views upside down; Rotate crop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Revit\ **Tags:** revit, dynamo\ **Created:** [March 27, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484 "2018-03-27T11:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sjoerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sjoerd](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/sjoerd)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/1 "2018-03-27T11:42:36Z")
I am trying to automate the creation of sheets with 3 section views(top side front) of windows. I used Dieter Vermeulens code to create the section views. > **[Element View Generation in Revit with Dynamo](https://revitbeyondbim.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/element-view-generation-in-revit-with-dynamo-revised/)** > > In October 2015, I wrote this post on this blog about how to automate the generation of detail (section) views of some specific Revit elements by means of a Dynamo graph. With the functionalities a… To place the views on a sheet I used code from Daniel\_Woodcock1. > [@Placing views on sheets by coordinates](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-views-on-sheets-by-coordinates/10901/3): > > Hi @mbnbrs. Here is an example using Python to place views on sheet at specific locations (Note: I have only allowed for one sheet at a time)… [PlaceViewsOnSheetByLocation.dyn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/uploads/short-url/asXn2FwEJt1DO8lkxUbSyIEZbEq.dyn) (31.6 KB) I have also added a way to visualise View Placement before actually placing in Revit. I hope this helps. Cheers, Dan But currently I am running into a problem; the section Side(top) created by Dieter Vermeulens script is upside down, I tried changing various things in the _element view creation code_ but could not manage to get it with the right way upwards. I then realised I could also make it work by rotating the viewport on sheet, however revit only allows up to 90 degrees rotation on sheets. I tried using the code from the link below but it didn’t do what I desire > [@Rotate crop views on sheet](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/rotate-crop-views-on-sheet/4307): > > Hi Everyone, I just wonder if anyone come across this idea before, due to my work I have to keep rotate and line up views in sheet. is it anyway we can rotate selected view with Dynamo? The rotate on sheet of Revit is very poor command, I usually have activate every single views then select crop view visible then rotate it. Is there any node or routine to allow rotate selected views? Thanks for reading Vinh I am now trying to rotate the cropview, effectively rotating the view. But even this I can’t get to work and now I pretty much ran out of ideas. So I’m wondering can Dieter Vermeulens code be changed in such a way that the side(top) view rotates 180\*. Or if that is not possible can crop views be rotated to effectively rotate the view? This is what I currently have: ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/d/5/d5babbca8db02ae90803b7c1f1c2152ad6703ae7.png) And this is the result I’m looking for: ![2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/4/4/44685b2076cb5e618d25b04f95498dc94b95d9c2.png) Thank you in advance ---
**Author:** ![sjoerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sjoerd](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/sjoerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/2 "2018-04-09T10:18:47Z")
@Konrad_K_Sobon @Dieter_Vermeulen ---
**Author:** ![ScottWeiter5186](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/scottweiter5186/32/36460_2.png) [@ScottWeiter5186](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ScottWeiter5186)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/3 "2018-12-11T19:25:45Z")
I’ve noticed the same thing and have been looking on how to flip it. ---
**Author:** ![sjoerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sjoerd](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/sjoerd)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/4 "2018-12-18T11:59:58Z")
Are you creating views the same way as I am? Because I managed to get them oriented the right direction by playing with the vectors until I got the correct result. If not, I’m not sure how to rotate the crop regions. I might have managed to rotate them but don’t quite remember. ---
**Author:** ![ScottWeiter5186](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/scottweiter5186/32/36460_2.png) [@ScottWeiter5186](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ScottWeiter5186)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/5 "2018-12-21T16:08:23Z")
I will have to play with them and see if I can get them to face the correct direction. Thanks it’s been driving crazy with everyone complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Mark.Ackerley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mark.ackerley/32/79310_2.png) [@Mark.Ackerley](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mark.Ackerley)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/6 "2018-12-21T17:13:25Z")
Hey, This works, hopefully you can make use of it… Happy Christmas, Mark ``` #all thanks to Konrad @ Archi-lab, Jeremy Tammik and pretty much everyone else on the forum! No credit goes to me for this. import clr clr.AddReference('RevitServices') from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') from Autodesk.Revit.DB import * rot = IN[0] viewport = UnwrapElement(IN[1]) def GetViewCropBoxElement(view): doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument TransactionManager.Instance.ForceCloseTransaction() tGroup = TransactionGroup(doc, "Temp to find crop box element") tGroup.Start() trans1 = Transaction(doc, "Temp to find crop box element") trans1.Start() view.CropBoxVisible = False trans1.Commit() shownElems = FilteredElementCollector(doc, view.Id).ToElementIds() trans1.Start() view.CropBoxVisible = True trans1.Commit() cropBoxElement = FilteredElementCollector(doc, view.Id).Excluding(shownElems).FirstElement() tGroup.RollBack() return cropBoxElement def RotateCropBox(view, cropBox, angle): doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument bbox = view.CropBox center = 0.5 * (bbox.Max + bbox.Min) axis = Line.CreateBound(center, center + XYZ.BasisZ) TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc) ElementTransformUtils.RotateElement(doc, cropBox.Id, axis, angle) TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone() return view crpbx = GetViewCropBoxElement(viewport) crpbxRt = RotateCropBox(viewport, crpbx, rot) OUT = crpbx, crpbxRt ``` ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/6/d/6d27db1c72d52a58380ba30b4f00ec03c4989bbb.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/f/ef510400020a57dbccb6cf1917a788e329c20e42.png) ---
**Author:** ![Dennis\_Pfaff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Dennis\_Pfaff](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Dennis_Pfaff)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/7 "2019-06-13T14:48:33Z")
This is awesome, Thanks! Is it possible to feed in a list of viewports? ---
**Author:** ![Mark.Ackerley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mark.ackerley/32/79310_2.png) [@Mark.Ackerley](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mark.Ackerley)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/8 "2019-06-13T15:34:09Z")
No worries, apologies I can’t test it right now, but amending it to something like… ``` For v in viewport: crpbx = GetViewCropBoxElement(v) crpbxRt = RotateCropBox(v, crpbx, rot) ``` should work? have a play with it 🙂 Cheers, Mark ---
**Author:** ![linderoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@linderoth](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/linderoth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/created-views-upside-down-rotate-crop/20484/9 "2021-06-05T16:40:43Z")
Hi! When I try this code, the view rotates but not the crop box…any ideas? ![imagen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/d/b/db77f7cbbd66647e5493081194957f2b842f506d.png) Thanks!!