Autocad Rotate Reference
There may be a time when you need to rotate objects to create better drawings. AutoCAD to the rescue! The ROtate command in AutoCAD 2014 pivots objects around a point that you specify. Follow these simple steps to use the ROtate command:
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Press Esc to make sure that no command is active and no objects are selected.
Click the Rotate button on the Home tab’s Modify panel, or enter RO and press Enter.
Select one or more objects and then press Enter to end object selection.
AutoCAD prompts you for the base point for rotating the selected objects:
Specify a base point by clicking a point or typing coordinates.
The base point becomes the point around which AutoCAD rotates the objects. You also have to specify a rotation angle:
Specify a rotation angle by one of these methods:
Type an angle measurement and press Enter.
Press Enter to accept the default value shown in angle brackets (which is the last-used value).
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Click a point onscreen.
Alternatively, you can indicate an angle on the screen by moving the crosshairs until the Coordinates section of the status bar indicates the desired angle and then clicking. If you choose this alternative, use Ortho mode or Polar Tracking mode to indicate a precise angle (for example, 90 or 45 degrees) or an object snap to rotate an object so that it aligns precisely with other objects.
Positive angle values rotate objects counterclockwise (counter to what you might expect), and negative values rotate them clockwise. For example, entering 270 degrees or –90 degrees produces the same result, making objects point “down.”
After you specify the rotation angle by typing or picking, AutoCAD rotates the objects into their new positions. The ROtate command’s Copy option makes a rotated copy while leaving the source object in place.
Start the ROTATE command. The alias to start the command is RO Select The objects that need to be rotated. Hit when finished. Tip: You can Start the Rotate command from the right-click menu. Simply select the objects and then right-click and select “Rotate” Also note the other command that are available from this menu.
Select the viewport that you want to rotate. In the drawing area, right-click and choose Rotate. At the Specify base point: prompt, specify the base point in which to rotate the viewport around. At the Specify rotation angle or Copy/Reference: prompt, enter a rotation value or specify a second point to determine the angle of rotation. Re: Specifing Rotation Axis in 3D Rotate The default option for 3DROTATE should be inputing two points, which would define the axis of rotation. If you are going to fly by the seat of your pants, expect friction burns. If you’d like to experiment with the Rotate Reference option, we’ve provided a sample file that you can use called rotatereference.dwg. Publisher Information. This is a short excerpt from the Mastering AutoCAD 2018 and AutoCAD LT 2018 student guide from WILEY, an Autodesk Authorized. Using Reference option Let’s assume that we want to rotate the Spanner with reference to another line AB as shown in the drawing with Red colour. Type RO and press enter to start the rotate command, select the spanner, and press enter key again.
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- [Instructor] Welcome again to AutoCAD and another tip and trick that will make you that little bit more productive, that little bit more effective, in your AutoCAD working environment. So, we've got a nice new drawing to look at. It's called MODIFY_RotateCopyReference.dwg and, as usual, my tip and trick drawing titles tend to give away what we're going to do which is we're going to look at the Modify panel in AutoCAD in the Home tab on the ribbon. We're going to look at the rotate command and the copy and reference sub-commands in that rotate command. So, you'll notice in the drawing we have a few little additions to the drawing by way of furniture. So, you'll notice over here we have a circular table and a chair and we have a sofa with a very weird angled line going through it which looks a bit strange but we'll figure that one out in a moment. Now, I'm going to zoom in on the table and the chair first over here in what looks like sort of a refectory kind of area. So, I'm just going to pan. Get that nice and central on the screen. Now, what we're going to do, is we're going to rotate the chair around this circular table using the copy part of the rotate command. So, I'm going to select the chair like so and I can go up to rotate here in the Modify panel and click and then it prompts me for a base point. Make sure that your object snaps are on and use the center snap of the table like so as the base point and then you'll see obviously that our chair is going round and round the table. Then, I right-click and use the copy sub-command there on the menu and you'll see now that I've got a copy of that chair rotating and the original stays where it is. The rotation angle is going to be 180. Press Enter and you've rotated that chair around the table creating a copy leaving the original behind. Now, that's great and, if I want four chairs, it's even slicker. It's really cool. So, let's click on the two chairs this time. This time I'll right-click on the mouse and go to rotate on the shortcut menu. Same base point. Center snap of the circular table and, as I move now, can you see that I've got two chairs moving because I selected both. Right-click again. Copy on the shortcut menu. Rotation angle of 90 this time and I've now got four chairs equally spaced, 90 degree increments, around my 360 circular table. How cool is that? Really quick and easy. Let's just pan across now to that weird sofa thing with the line going through it. Let's have a look now at the rotate reference option as well. I want this sofa to be at the angle of that line in the halfway area of the building. So, what I do is I select the sofa and I'm going to cheat again. I'm going to right-click and use rotate here on the shortcut menu. The base point is going to be there. That endpoint of the sofa where it intersects with the line. I then come away from the sofa, right-click and select reference and now here's where it gets really clever. I pick on this point here like so. Second point here and then, as I come down to the endpoint of the line, it all lines in with the line. Make sure you get the endpoint, snap and click. Our sofa is neatly aligned. I delete the angled line. I don't need it anymore and my sofa sits nicely at that angle in the halfway area of the building. So, as you can see, we've updated our furniture using the rotate copy and reference tools in that Modify panel on the Home tab, on the ribbon.
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