Hi Michael,

Just an idea that could further enhance this rotation widget if it is possible.
When activating the rotation widget sometimes a particular angle is required, so I was thinking when the wheel is activated a little tab, like the cline tab, will appear and and as the cline tab works you have an option to place an exact angle and maybe number of copies.

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Hi Marc,

> Maybe a fixed sized (non interactive) that would only
> change if the user inputs a point?

Actually that's the one that I tried that had a kind of jumpy feel since the circle kind of changed suddenly.

I did end up doing the circle changing on every mouse move too kind of accidentally while trying this, that was not quite as jumpy but felt more like you were drawing a circle rather than rotating. That also did not work very well in the "open areas" where there was not a snap point, where if you click down there it will end the wheel mode.

- Michael

Hi Danny,

re: particular angle

Actually there is something already for that in the current release - if you type in an angle in the angle constraint box down in the bottom command bar.



For example if you click there and enter "22" then when you rotate it will go in 22 degree increments from the start point of your drag.

It's also possible to enter in an angle by typing without clicking anywhere, by typing <22 - like this:




When you type the first < character, it will put focus into the x,y,z coordinate box where you would normally be able to type in the x,y,z coordinates for something like the endpoint of a line, but if you enter in a value preceded by < that is a shortcut for putting the value in the angle constraint.

So either of those methods will work currently for controlling the rotation angle.


Re: Number of copies - I think for that it would be best to stick with the Transform/Array/Polar tool which can handle that and also a lot of other possible parameters as well. It's great to be able to place a few copies with this tool but trying to make a full pattern with it will pretty quickly just replicate all the UI from that other command I think.

- Michael