Rotating objects in Hammer

[Yojimbo]

Hi,

A couple of questions about rotation objects using the selection tool:

- Can I change the axis about which the object rotates? Rotating about the centre is pretty useless when trying to align the edges.

- Can I rotate in smaller increments than the default?

Thanks

[Low]

You can use ctrl+m to rotate with more accuracy but from what I hear you only want to really rotate at incriments of 15 degrees.

As for which axis, you can rotate an object on all the of them (x,y,z); you just can't rotate an object for a specific point, I'm fairly certain you can only rotate it from the center.

I think you were wondering more so if you could rotate an object from a certain point, but if you're wondering how to rotate on a different access just rotate it in a different view or use ctrl+m.

[Defrag]

1. Yes you can, but more in a roundabout fashion. A convenient way I picked up to do this (nicked from Dave Johnston's very-useful-but-now-defunct blog) is to use brushes to shift the origin and then rotate the brushes. It's more fiddly than using a proper pivot function and possibly not what you're looking for, but it's worth a look nonetheless. http://blog.johnsto.co.uk/?action=view&id=94

2. Hold shift when rotating.

[hessi]

to rotate in smaller than 15° you need to hold shift while rotating

e: damn you defrag

[Defrag]

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[Yojimbo]

Thanks everyone. Pity about the pivot location, seems like a pretty obvious thing to include. Oh well.