Easy rotate in draw.

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#1

Hi.
Is there an easy way to rotate an object in draw 90 degrees or 180 degrees.

I select the object and right click Position and Size. The angle is usually some obscure number (156.24) and I have to do some maths to calculate the new angle.
I can't type in 156.24-24 (some software evaluates simple formulae in input fields).

Cheers, steve

#2

Two methods:

(1)
Select image or draw object
Menu Modify -> Rotate
Down cursor to rotate in 45deg increments

(2)
Select image or draw object
Sidebar -> Properties deck
Tab to the "Position and Size" content panel
directly enter the rotation, or again down/up cursor to rotate in 45deg
increments

#3

An alternative solution you might find useful is simply clicking twice on
an object. The "resize" handles will turn into "rotate" handles. From that
point you can rotate an object by clicking one of the corner handles, and
holding Shift will lock the rotation to 15° increments. This will be
relative to the object initial orientation.

So, if you have something at 5.4° and use this method, you can rotate it to
20.4°, 35.4°, 50.4°, etc.

#4

Thanks, this works easily.
Steve

#5

Thanks.
Unfortunately the rotation is not from relative position. First down cursor rotates the object and sets the angle at 0.00 and subsequent cursor steps are at 45 degrees.
If the object angle is 23.45 then this will not rotate it 90 degrees to 113.45
steve

#6

Sorry, it was not clear that you were not interested in object/image rotation
onto cardinal points.

Cley's method of selecting the object and toggling to rotation mode provides
the incremental rotation.

Note though that some of the objects placed on the Draw canvas will not have
resize/rotate handles, but they can still be rotated from the Sidebar
Properties content panel.

#7

Hi.
That would be ok if the object started at a cardinal point.
When you group some objects the angle of the group seems to become the angle of the last object in the group.
Rotating a group with cursor is painfully slow for larger groups as it calculates the new rotation every step of the way. For now I will just have to do the calculation for the new angle.
Steve