Portrait or Landscape?

[Hank Outlaw]

Apex Sketch - Portrait or Landscape?

Can anyone give me a quick reference or answer on how to rotate a sketch in Apex (long house), i.e., landscape vs portrait? We have a large house that we would like to rotate in landscape view to get it more legible.

Thanks,

Hank

 

[EddieB]

In Apex V5, select the Tools Tab, Rotate, then select Sketch.

This allows you to rotate on an axis to any angle.

 

[Randall Garrett]

FWIW, after you select to rotate,

• the [R] key will rotate things (sketch, or other selected item - symbol, text, dimension) counter-clockwise in 15 degree increments
• [Shift]+[R] rotates things in 5 degree increments
• [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[R] rotates things in 1 degree increments

Watch the info bar at the bottom right when rotating and moving things to see the relative amounts of rotation, offset, etc.

Also, [H] will revert to Horizontal and [V] will go to Vertical

When you select "Rotate Sketch" from the menu with your mouse, if you move the mouse cursor down off the menu, onto the sketch pad, the sketch will rotate to the angle where the mouse enter the sketch pad. If you want to use the [R] key(s), we suggest hitting [H] first to snap back to the original horizontal position.


Hope this helps!


-Randall Garrett-
..Apex Software..

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