topic Get Map rotation in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/get-map-rotation/m-p/457679#M5011 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ive created a vb macro that will create a text file at the seme place as my mxd file.&nbsp; The text file contain some information about my mxd like the name of the mxd.&nbsp; I need to had the rotation of the active dataframe but I can't find the way to do that.&nbsp; I suppose it's simple but I can't get it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any Help on how to get the maprotation to a text string?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>tnx</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:42:36 GMT FrancisMoisan 2011-01-06T16:42:36Z Get Map rotation https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/get-map-rotation/m-p/457679#M5011 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ive created a vb macro that will create a text file at the seme place as my mxd file.&nbsp; The text file contain some information about my mxd like the name of the mxd.&nbsp; I need to had the rotation of the active dataframe but I can't find the way to do that.&nbsp; I suppose it's simple but I can't get it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any Help on how to get the maprotation to a text string?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>tnx</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:42:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/get-map-rotation/m-p/457679#M5011 FrancisMoisan 2011-01-06T16:42:36Z Re: Get Map rotation https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/get-map-rotation/m-p/457680#M5012 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Francis,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>At 10.0, if your mxd is in page layout view, the mxd.activeView returns "PAGE_LAYOUT" (and not the active data frame within the layout).&nbsp; You would need to find the data frame by name (or loop through each df) and return the rotation accordingly.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you are in data view, the mxd.activeView returns the active dataframe.&nbsp; At that point you can get the df.rotation value.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>At 10.1 we plan to introduce a new MapDocument property called ActiveDataFrame which will be r/o and will return a reference to a data frame object regardless of data view or layout view.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:20:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/get-map-rotation/m-p/457680#M5012 JeffBarrette 2011-01-07T14:20:34Z