ROTATE — Rotate

Rotates objects around a base point.

Command: ROTATE · Global name: _ROTATE · Alias: RO
Ribbon: Home › Modify
Menu: Modify
Toolbar: Modify

Rotates the selected objects around a base point. The angle is given with a point or typed in degrees.

Usage

Enter ROTATE (or RO) or click Rotate on the ribbon.
Select the objects and press Enter. If they were already selected before starting the command, they are used without asking.

Select objects:

Specify the base point: the center of rotation.

Specify base point:

Specify the angle. Typed, in degrees (positive is counterclockwise); with a click, the angle is that of the direction from the base point to the point. The preview follows the cursor.

Specify rotation angle or [Copy/Reference] <…>:

With Copy a copy is rotated and the original stays; with Reference you give the reference angle (a number or two points) and the new angle (Specify the reference angle <0>:), and the difference is applied.

Notes

With Ortho (F8) or polar tracking (F10) the rotation with the cursor snaps to 90° or to the polar angles.
With no command running you can rotate with grips: select the objects, click a grip (it becomes the base point) and press Space until the rotate mode.

Specify rotation angle or [Base point/Copy/eXit]:

Texts, blocks and arcs update their angle; dimensions are regenerated and their text stays readable.
The Copy and Reference options are the AutoCAD ones; in Reference, Points gives the angle with two points. Enter uses the last rotated angle (the value between < >).

ROTATE — Rotate

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