orientare il "foglio" in vectorworks.

[Ramaja]

I'm losing a bit, because of my niubbagine with vw obviously but on the manual I can't find what I need.
when he created a new document in vw 2012 by default the sheet (a4, a2, a0 that is) is oriented vertically, which is more awkward on a screen that is wider than high. I do not find the command to orientate it horizontally, with the aggravating that, if I subsequently rotate a design to adapt it to the vertical format of the sheet in the printing phase, I find myself with the texts always oriented on the wrong side (e.g., if I rotate a rectangle with a side a writing, I find it to be printed 90 degrees and with the correctly written vertically and at the top, but subsurface when).
in programs with physical layout of the sheet (e.g. illustrator, corel draw) there is always an immediate command to rotate the background sheet, so I assume there is also in vw, but I don't find it.

 

[Ramaja]

I tried a solution but not entirely convincing.
I cut from the sheet my entire design, I used the command "roll the whole plant" on the mode bar setting it to 90°, I glued the original cut design (if I leave it rotates also that), and now I have the design on a horizontal sheet, except that all the writings on the sheet are subsurface, despite the fact the design has not been rotated or moved in any way...
if I select the individual writings and try to rotate them I can do it up to 90° but not to 180° because they return tipped
I could rewrite everything but it doesn't seem very practical.
the only system is to rotate the entire plant of 270° instead of 90° at the beginning of the process, in which case the writings are correctly reported

 

[lory.b]

I can't find the command to orientate it horizontally,

just go to the press menu page setup (print format, in Italian...?) and select the format and orientation.
then save the document as a template and you always find it like this.
I do.

 

[Ramaja]

Yeah, but maybe I've explained badly.
I started a small table a4 with a thermal system and half realized that it was not on the sheet vertically, so I wanted to physically "turn" the drawing on the sheet, only that I could not turn the writings in the right way.
It seems to me that I have understood after being a little crazy, you have to turn the sheet of 270° instead of 90° as it would be spontaneous because the program reads the orientation of the sheet as "high and low" regardless of how we see it on the sheet.

 

[zetadierre]

Sorry, I think you're messing up.
1) in lucid0 design environment, sheet size the width and height is set in file>sets document > drawing settings or you can use the second mode of tool mode bar "setting the page" in the standard tool palette where in the settings you can also settar multiple formats.
2) In glossy presentation the "sheet" is set directly in the hangings of the polish. I always recommend that you assign the size provided by the printer to immediately check "non-printable" areas
3) the command "route plant" is extraordinary, I make great use of it but it is not necessary to change orientation to the page: Sometimes when drawings from the real you get the physical gesture to rotate the whole design.. for the same reasons there is this command: to find itself better oriented in the phases of drawing in different orientations

 

[Ramaja]

thanks zetadierre, it was just the mode of the way bar on moving page I was looking for.
physically changing the settings of the document instead, since I had already started drawing and writing, I always found myself with the drawing outside the print margins of the virtual sheet.
I imagine that for those who have used vectorworks for years it seems an immediate thing, but for those who come from software coem autocad or microstation, where the design plan has no limits, the way to create the design is different, since they, check back the print margins.
now that I understand how to make sure I'm not wrong anymore

 

[zetadierre]

Good! Don't worry, sometimes too simple things are difficult to spot! Good job