Setting lot around house

[lgswe]

I have a 3 acre lot approx. 270'x500' that drops 80' from one end to the other. I set the lot around the house, which has a walk out basement, and decided after I had all the original contours in that I wanted to rotate the house a little to take better advantage of the contours. I knew not to rotate the house but to rotate the lot. I locked all layers on the house, except the terrain layers, then used edit area to rotate the terrain. Everything looked good in plan view till I checked out my other floors and found out they also rotated with the terrain, even though I had everything locked, except the terrain layers. How do I move the terrain around without affecting any of the house? I'm sure there is a simple solution to the problem. As always thanks to all who take the time to help me out.

[Rusty]

Group select terrain items and rotate rather than using edit area.

[lgswe]

Rusty---Thanks. I was having a brain freeze last night. I think it was too much coffee. When I got up this morning I thought that I must have to select each item then rotate. The question I'm wondering know is if I had everything locked why did they rotate anyway? Thank you again.

[Jim Rogers]

It maybe better to turn those things off, so that they don't show, instead of trying to lock them.
I believe if they don't show then they can't be selected.

If you zoom out and then select the terrain you should have a standard handle for rotating.

Or once selected use the transform/replicate to rotate to a specific degree from start.

I haven't opened a file or created a test file to verify any of this, so I could be wrong, but it would seem that it makes sense to me....

[Doug Park]

Edit area doesn't respect locked items and is useful for that reason for doing plan wide edits. Edit Area Visible will only affect visible items.

[lgswe]

Jim--The trouble with turning them off is that you can't see the house for placement.
Doug--Is it possible to have a child button that could rotate, move, etc. are items only pertaining to the terrain? Then you wouldn't have to go around clicking on all your terrain items to edit them.