Rotation of the Artboard
Like in Photoshop it would be great if an Artist could rotate the artboard/canvas in Illustrator. If you draw a line from left to right it's never the same stroke as from up to down.
Markus Steinschaden
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AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal
(Sr. Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator)
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Hi friends!
I have some great news for your today. Rotate View (Canvas) feature is available in Illustrator 25.3 (Desktop) now. Thank you all for your feedback which helped us shape up this feature.
Please note: This update is currently only available in the following countries (India, Australia, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Canada, South Korea, UK, Italy) and will rollout globally over the next few weeks.
412 comments
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Frens
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Hi Yogesh,
No not drawing under an angle this is already possible, I want to rotate the artboard /canvas like a piece of paper when I am drawing on it at my table. It would make designing cardboard boxes (plano) more easily. If you could rotate the artboard 90 degrees it would make more easy to put text, logo's and etc. on the sides. -
Frens
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Hi Yogesh,
No not drawing under an angle this is already possible, I want to rotate the artboard /canvas like a piece of paper when I am drawing on it at my table. It would make designing cardboard boxes (plano) more easily. If you could rotate the artboard 90 degrees it would make more easy to put text, logo's and etc. on the sides. -
Frens
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Hi Yogesh,
No not drawing under an angle this is already possible, I want to rotate the artboard /canvas like a piece of paper when I am drawing on it at my table. It would make designing cardboard boxes (plano) more easily. If you could rotate the artboard 90 degrees it would make more easy to put text, logo's and etc. on the sides. -
Frens
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Hi Yogesh,
No not drawing under an angle this is already possible, I want to rotate the artboard /canvas like a piece of paper when I am drawing on it at my table. It would make designing cardboard boxes (plano) more easily. If you could rotate the artboard 90 degrees it would make more easy to put text, logo's and etc. on the sides. -
Matthew King
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Draw/edit at an angle for drawing purposes, exact behavior as rotate canvas in Photoshop.
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Nique
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On a Wacom IntuosPro in Illustrator CC (22.01) rotating the canvas with the Touch Ring is not working.
Looks like on code level a keystroke associated with a certain function is missing, in Photoshop it works fine... -
Anonymous
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I was slightly astonished and sadly amused that the Product Manager of Adobe Illustrator asked if we wanted to draw/edit at an angle.
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Any
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Yogesh, that a non question. Of course we also need to edit and draw while changing the artboard angle. All the modern drawing programs have this feature.
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Krrishna
commented
I couldn't rotate the canvas or Artboard in Illustrator. Badly need a "Rotate View Tool".
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Tony H
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Hey Yogesh. Same basic behaviour as Photoshop, in that the artboard still recognises "True North" but you can draw at an angle that works for you. Every illustrator has a drawing angle that works for them working freehand, and this would allow us to make the best of our individual requirements.
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Anonymous
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i'd like to edit/draw at any angle. similar functionality to photoshop. hold down r and the whole screen virtually rotates with full functionality. thanks!
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Dan Arrows
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Hello Yogesh,
I'd really need it to be editable in every direction, similar to what happens on Photoshop or Animate. The point is to emulate the rotating of a sheet of paper while drawing. It improves the artwork tremendously.
Thank you very much!
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Dan
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Nate
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Editing, definitely - look at PS functionality.
Locked artwork and locked layers should be rotating as well. -
Davey Morgan
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I want to view, draw, and edit at any angle, just like if you were to turn a piece of paper in real life. Like when an artist or comic book artist turns a paper to ink or draw in a certain direction. I think this is a MAJOR feature that Illustrator is missing. I imagine a majority of Illustrator users are artists and also came from a background of traditional medium. For example, if I want to draw a few characters on a page and one of them is upside down, I have to draw that character right side up, then rotate the character. However, if it's a character that is draw into a scene and can't be rotated, then I'm out of luck.
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Eduardo Moura
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Rotate the *Artboard view* would be of no use to me. I need to edit while my view is tilted. In a perfect world, I would be able to hold the R key, rotate the Artboard to my liking, and return to the tool I was using before when I release the R key. Just like I do in Photoshop. How I miss the springloaded keys from Photoshop. Currently only the modifier keys (shift, alt and ctrl in Windows) work like that in Illustrator.
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Matt
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Yogesh, could you please read all the other comments? Everyone has explained the request very well. I'm an artist. I want to be able to rotate the view I am seeing the art to any angle I want and then be able to draw with the natural arc of my wrist. I wonder if the reason you haven't done this is maybe there is a problem with there being multiple artboards in one document. For me, I would be happy if you guys could create a template or specialized-type illustrator file with a single artboard where free-style rotation could be enabled.
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Franck Payen
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Hi Yogesh. As mentionned down there, being able to draw at any angle seems to be the thing to do : think about the way you'd rotate your sheet of paper. Or your Photoshop canvas. So, draw + edit. Yep, a lot of maths.
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mano
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Thanks for your consideration, freehand rotation on whatever direction like the rotate view tool in Photoshop.. not fixed angles or bounding boxes, the whole canvas (artboard) i think its what we are aiming for.
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dandid
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I'm really happy someone is potentially looking into this, i get hopeful every time there is a new point release that i might spot the word Rotate...
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Doug Roberts
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Editing, certainly. If it could be made similar to the tool in PS that would be nice.