Rotate About Individual Centers

[GarretF]

This post is part of a series on what's new in Circuit Design Suite 12.0

When you select a number of different objects in Ultiboard, then rotate that selection, the selection rotates about the center of the selection. This is pretty important because if your selection contains traces and other objects. If instead of rotating as a group, Ultiboard instead rotated about each objects individual center, rotation might turn

into

Yikes! Definitely not what you would usually want. So Ultiboard does the right thing and rotate about the centre of your selection. But suppose you do want to rotate about individual centres, for example because you want to rotate a few of RefDes, as in the following case

In this case, I want to rotate them about their individual center. Or suppose you wanted to create the second image above. How would you do that? Before version 12.0, you would select each object individually and rotate it, but now there is a better way.

1. Select the objects to rotate
2. Edit > Orientation > Rotate...
3. Select Rotate about individual centers

Click OK, and you'll get