Rotation in Layout, how it works?
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It's strange that some elements such as ellipses, rectangles and texts when rotated remember the inclination of the knob from the original position while other elements like paths and groups don't. I done some labels for tagging doors and windows in a LO sheet.
That labels were groups composed of a straight line and some text. When I tryied to align them perpendicular to the openings in a oblique wall I losed any reference because the knob reseted everytime horizontaly. It was a pain trying to allign them perpendicular "by eye". I fear there are no workarounds to this problem as I surfed the web finding no advices abouth that issue. Can you help me? -
Well, your group could change. You could have 5 items in a group, rotate them, ungroup, regroup 3 of them, then rotate. In SketchUp, you'd use the protractor tool, then rotate and snap to the line. Nothing quite equivalent in LayOut. The closest I came was to use angular dimensions to get the exact angle, then rotate the group (select, move, type in the same angle). Worked OK for me.
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Oh, then erase the angular dimension... obviously.
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