Legend symbol angle in ArcMap 10.3

Question

I work on a map with rotate data frame. When I create the legend, the symbol line in the layers on the legend are angle to different directions than the layers in the map:

I try to find a way (automatically) to straight the symbol lines in the legend items as it in the map. I don't want to use the option of turn the legend to graphic elements, and then to angle the line of the symbol items to the same direction as the layers.

For clarity, this question as been asked in GeoNet, but I didn't got suitable answer.

Answer 1

Use clone layer with modified angle of hash lines. Show clone in the legend, show original in the view:

UPDATE:

If this

is NOT what you guys call dynamic legend, quit reading this.

Otherwise use it in addition to:

Answer 2

I just could reproduce that issue. I was not aware of it before. Three things you can do to avoid it:

1. Create a clone (as point out from @FelixIP) or an empty feature just for showing purpose. For a dynamic legend hide the clone behind/under the original or other map data.

2. Just don't change the map rotation angle (for somebody how handle a lot of maps it is always easier to read a north oriented map).

3. Convert the map into a graphic (personally I don't like that way, as it is not longer connected to the data of the map).

   • Therefor make a right click on the legend and press Convert to Graphics.
   • then ungroup the symbol (you have to do it a several times until you can actually access to the symbol properties) and
   • change manually the angle of each symbol.

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The result could look like that: