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Quick Rotation Shortcut

Mahmoud
Booster
I have been always waiting for it changing in Archicad, a shortcut for a quick rotation !

like pressing a specific key, like the P for flipping, to quickly rotate objects, elements..etc to the most common drawing angles 0-45-90

very simple change but can make the Archicad much much more convenient !
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Lingwisyer
Guru
Select object => ctrl + e => click => approx rotation => shift => click.

Hitting Shift will snap your rotation to the closes angle divided by your interval set at;

Options => Work Environment => Input Constraints and Guides => Incremental Angle




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Mahmoud
Booster
Lingwisyer wrote:
Select object => ctrl + e => click => approx rotation => shift => click.

Hitting Shift will snap your rotation to the closes angle divided by your interval set at;

Options => Work Environment => Input Constraints and Guides => Incremental Angle




Ling.
Thanks Ling !
I've been already using this method.. but I'm still wishing for a shortcut key that automatically rotates with the incremental angle. Similar to the Arrow+shift nudging shortcut, there could be an arrow + E for example to rotate clockwise or anticlockwise with that incremental angle. that would be more functional in my opinion !
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I have been asking for this for years.
I used to use a simple 2D CAD package many years ago where we could just press SHIFT+left/right arrow to rotate selection by 45°.
It was brilliant.

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Mahmoud
Booster
Barry wrote:
I have been asking for this for years.
I used to use a simple 2D CAD package many years ago where we could just press SHIFT+left/right arrow to rotate selection by 45°.
It was brilliant.

Barry.
It will definitely help decrease a reasonable percentage of the drafting time !
Thanks for joining in, Barry !
Minh Nguyen
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni

Dear All,

 

Thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions regarding this request!

As we found out that this was an existing request, we have updated it with your comments here,

(For future reference, you can refer to it as IDEA-4256)

 

I hope we see this get implemented in soon!
Have a great day!

 

Best regards,
Minh

Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT