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90 degrees rotation button or shortcut

Anonymous
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Just to speed up design.
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Anonymous
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buy one of these
should be able to macro it all into one of the "G" keys.. ill give it a go tonight

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/08/G15_CTG.jpg
Rafal SLEK
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This is a link to a 15 minute Revit video that shows both examples - http://revitrocks.blogspot.com/2008/09/revit-house-modeled-10-minutes.html
"10 minutes House" is 15 minutes long 🙂
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Anonymous
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Hi all,

Rotating is one of the most used actions in every drawing process, at least for me

The handling is time-consuming and unnecessarily clumsy, why not introduce the function R; once the item is selected and you press the R (rotation) key it rotates? Pressing it multiple times will rotate it again and again by 90 degrees.
Lets BIM the 2d drawing, there are multiple things in Archicad 2d drawing that can be improved will post more of it later.
Brett Brown
Advocate
Wish started in 2009 https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=28816&p=149058&hilit=rotating#p149058
Unfortunately, Graphisoft don't put USABILITY high on there to do list. Little things like this would make a world of difference to us users every day.
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Karl Ottenstein
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Brett wrote:
Wish started in 2009 https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=28816&p=149058&hilit=rotating#p149058
Unfortunately, Graphisoft don't put USABILITY high on there to do list. Little things like this would make a world of difference to us users every day.
Thanks for finding this old wish, Brett. Moved the new post here to get any new votes added. 😉
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jowig
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I cannot start to emphasize the need for this command. What on earth are people doing when they're arranging a plan? The flow is completely disrupted when I have to decide on a center of rotation, reference the first line, reference the second line – only to miss the 90° rotation by 1.7 degrees because of some snap point I cannot turn off.

 

Please, please add this, and take inspiration from it in the way it allows for a swift workflow.

What I do?

 

CTRL + E, move mouse to the right, click, hit A and type 90 and hit enter.

 

Not as fast as having one button to do this, but it is fool proof, since it doesn't matter if your reference was straight or not.

Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
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We need fix in Archicad so that certain angles are prioritized like 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, because of this, a random turn by 89.34° would be impossible.

hmartell
Contributor

Agree 100%
CMD+L, CMD+R would be simple and align to a lot of other software rotate 90° commands (add other angles, etc in the settings for folks that want more options)

You can set incremental guides to 15° (or any angle you want multiples of i.e. 10°, 22.5°), and you will have snap guides at those angles as you model - if you have the snap guides turned on of course.

Even with them turned off, your SHIFT key will still constrain to those angle.

 

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Barry.

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