What is it about the formation of the Solar System that makes it so that the planets orbit the sun in the same direction as it orbits?
Not my question, but it sounds like there was some kind of collision that cuased it.
IMHO It has something to do with our position in the Milky Way. If I remember we are on an outter radial arm of the galaxy so all of our planets orbit the sun in the same direction much like the way the water swirls in different dierctions in different hemispheres here on Earth. If we were closer to the center of the galaxy I think that the planets would swirl the other way down the bowl… 
I think you mean, why do the planets orbit the sun in the same direction as the sun rotates on its own axis?
WASIG: (wild-ass slightly informed guess) perhaps to do with the sun and its planets being formed from the same disk of rotating matter; the planets accreted from the same disk so they would natural orbit in the same direction.
Imagine a part of the sky where there is a lot of stuff leftover from a supernova. As it starts to pull together from its own gravity, it won’t just all go to the center of mass, because each little particle starts out with its own random velocity. So you get a lot of material swirling around the center of mass, in all different directions.
This can’t last forever, though, because matter in one orbit collides with matter in another orbit, and both pieces end up closer to their average angular velocity. After millions of years, you get a disk of material that’s rotating on the same axis as the average of the original blob’s rotations.
The material in the center starts to get dense enough to cause nuclear fusion, and material farther out starts coalescing into orbiting chunks, which will eventually become planets. All the resulting chunks, including the one in the center, rotate in the same direction as the disk they formed from.
Are we forgetting Uranus? It orbits the sun in the opposite direction of all the other planets. A real puzzler. Did it migrate to our solar system after the other planets were in place?
The orbit of Uranus is actually perfectly normal. You may be getting confused with the fact that the planet itself spins more or less “on its side.”
rogerb, I think the phenomenon you’re trying to get at is the fact that Uranus and Venus both rotate in the opposite direction from the direction of their revolution around the sun. IOW, if you looked at the solar system from the side where all the planets orbited clockwise, Venus and Uranus would appear to be rotating counterclockwise.
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I am not sure I understand the OP. The question is phrased ambiguously. If it is asking why the planets rotate the same sense as they orbit the Sun, then it’s because they all formed from the same collapsing cloud of material. As the cloud collapsed, it began to spin and flatten. The planets formed from this, so they all orbit the Sun in the same direction (counterclockwise as viewed from the north looking down). The Sun formed in the center, and spins that way as well.
Venus does rotate ‘upside-down’, and Uranus on its side. For that matter, Mars and Earth are both tilted at roughly 24 degrees too! The current thinking is that really big collisions early in the planets’ history knocked them over, flipping them around. These collisiosn were common way back when, and one almost certainly is why we have a Moon now.
I can almost interpret the OP to ask why the planets go around the Sun the same way we all orbit the center of the Galaxy. Maybe I am misreading that. In reality, the orbit of the solar system is tipped by (IIRC) 60 degrees or so the plane of the Milky Way, so we don’t really go the same way.
This page has many links that will help. One of my favorite sites, The Nine Planets has a solar system formation overview too.