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Compass tool?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:53:39 GMT

Is there a compass tool or any other way to enter degrees for angles?

Re: Compass tool?

Tobias_Hathorn — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:16:59 GMT

yes, the rotate tool has a compass built into it so you can rotate by precise degrees.

- select geometry

- right click

- choose the rotate tool (also you can use the Q keyboard shortcut)

- a compass widget appears

- you can pick up the center grip and move it to your desired pivot axis

- then you can grab the blue dot grip and set the origin angle

- then you can grab the arrow widgets and rotate

- you can also hit the tab key to input a specific dimension at any time

- note that this is a 'measure angle' tool as well as a 'mirror' and 'radial array' tool which use the same compass widget

Here is a short video showing the steps I described above

and here is another video showing how to rotate in other axes

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/screencast/Main/Details/f9ffdfd7-dcb0-47fa-9897-87fca7de389e.html

Re: Compass tool?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:05:27 GMT

The formit that I have is on the ipad pro it there a way to do the same

Re: Compass tool?

Tobias_Hathorn — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:08:29 GMT

Yes - you have to access through the context menu as there are no keyboard shortcuts. To do that...

- double tap an object to select it

- press and hold on the selected object for a moment (1 second or so)

- the context menu will appear, and the rotate icon will be present

- tap the rotate icon and you'll see the compass widget appear

- the grips do the same thing as I described previously - center grip moves the pivot axis, blue grip changes the origin of rotation angle, arrows rotate

Hope that helps! Please keep the thread going if not.

Tobias

Re: Compass tool?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:10:01 GMT

Im trying to place a 45 on top of a 90