- Chapter Objectives
- EXERCISE 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture
- Making a Drawing Template
- Polyline
- OFFSET
- EXPLODE
- ID Point
- TRIM
- Rectangle
- CHAMFER
- FILLET
- COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
- ROTATE
- POINT
- DIVIDE
- MEASURE
- OSNAP
- MIRROR
- Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features
- Running Osnap Modes
- Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip
- EXERCISE 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture
- Making Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch
- From
- BREAK
- Polyline Edit
- HATCH
- ARRAY
- ARRAYEDIT
- Distance
- Exercise 3-3 Drawing a Curved Conference Room, Including Furniture
- Polyline
- POLYGON
- Grips—Add Vertex
- Grips—Convert to Arc
- ARRAY
- Exercise 3-4 Drawing a Conference Room Using Polar Tracking
- Polar Tracking
- Polyline Edit
- Specifying Points with Tracking
- Drawing the Chairs around the Conference Table
- Completing the Conference Room
- Using Command Preview
- Choosing Selection Options
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
ROTATE
The ROTATE command rotates a selected drawing entity in the counterclockwise direction; 90° is to the left, and 270° (or –90°) is to the right. You select a base point of the entity to be rotated, and the entity rotates about that base point.
ROTATE |
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Ribbon/Panel |
Home/Modify
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Draw Toolbar: |
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Menu Bar: |
Modify/Rotate |
Type a Command: |
ROTATE |
Command Alias: |
RO |
Step 27. Use the ROTATE command to rotate CHAIR 2 (Figure 3-12), as described next:
Prompt
Response
Type a command:
Rotate (or type RO <Enter>)
Current positive angle in UCS:
ANGDIR=counterclockwise ANGBASE=0
Select objects: Start the window to include CHAIR 2
Specify opposite corner: Complete the window to include CHAIR 2
Select objects:
<Enter>
Specify base point:
Type MID <Enter>
mid of
P1→ (Figure 3-12)
Specify rotation angle or [Copy Reference]:
Type 90 <Enter>
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Reference
If you don’t know the specific rotation angle, the Reference option of the Rotate prompt is sometimes easier to use. It allows you to select the object to be rotated and click the base point. Type R <Enter> for Reference. Then you can enter the Reference angle: (current angle) of the object by typing it and pressing <Enter>. If you don’t know the current angle, you can show AutoCAD the Reference angle: by picking the two endpoints of the line to be rotated. You can specify the New angle: by typing it and pressing <Enter>. If you don’t know the new angle, you can show AutoCAD the New angle: by picking a point on the drawing.