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Rotating Objects in Illustrator |
There are several ways
of rotating an object in Adobe Illustrator,
the first which is the easiest is to select
the object you want to rotate with the selection
tool from the main tools panel 
so its highlighted, then select the rotate
tool again from the tools main panel 
and drag the mouse up and down on the document
to see the selection rotate (you can also
hold the shift key down to jump to key angles
e.g. 45, 90 and 180 degrees). The default
setting for rotating an object is for illustrator
to plot the rotation from the center of the
selected object.
You can also rotate an object numerically,
again select the object and click the rotate
button from the tools panel, then press enter
on your keyboard, this will bring up a panel
where you can enter the rotation amount, there's
also a preview box which you can tick to see
how the object will look when rotated. This
way is handy if you know you want to turn
the object 90, 45, or 180 degrees. |
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| To move the rotation
point away from the center of the object,
select the rotation tool and click on
the canvas while holding down the 'Alt'
key on the keyboard, again the rotate
panel will appear. You can also copy
the selection which will rotate and
copy the original artwork, if you press
Ctrl and D this will duplicate the copied
image and rotation of it, pretty good
way of making pattern as seen below. |
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| A good
example of this rotation technique can be
found in the creating
a cog Illustrator tutorial |
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