Package designers have the need to be able to quickly flip an artboard with its contents intact in order to design panels that would otherwise be upside down or sideways. This would be an excellent feature to help with productivity!

It's actually crazy to think the industry standard illustration app doesn't offer this feature in 2017...

Not being to rotate the canvas at every conceivable angle for illustrations in Ai is a dealbreaker for a lot of illustrators. Every time I make an attempt to start a project in illustrator I get to that crucial "rotate canvas" moment for some tricky lines. I fail, undo, fail, undo—this goes on and on and then I just give up and draw in photoshop—the program that begins wth "photo" and leave the program called "illustrator" to do all of my illustrations.

Do we have any updates on this? To answer admin question.. draw, edit, color, ink, etc all at an angle. Exactly like photoshop capabilities.

This is something that i would use myself instead of rotating the artwork.

I didn't know this was underway, but this is a major reason that I don't do illustrations in Illustrator. Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop have had this functionality for years; I use a Cintiq most of the time, and an Intuos when on the road, and with the ability to rotate canvas I can draw to the strength of my hand motion, rather than reversing to accommodate the software.

I am all for complete artboard rotation just like psd has! It would make drawing in Illustrator a lot easier.

Okay no bashing guys! I worked with a few developers and programmers and they really aren't to blame that it isn't in already!!!! Okay the canvas spread like in InDesign would be a start but the REAL DEAL is to rotate it dynamic with your touch strip or Touch Ring or Mousewheel or whatever! Like in Photoshop @Yogesh have a look on the video

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhkmlgla2dq35al/VID_20171123_123420.mp4?dl=0

I can't believe it!!! Maybe it's really happening! Didn't thought of it and than I find the last comment from Yogesh in the spam folder!!! So everybody else explained it already what the idea of rotating the artboard/canvas means, the video is just to make it even clearer! Thank you all in advance and spread the word to all other users to support the idea, so that it really happens! :D

Of course I don't have any idea how to calculate and script all this kind of stuff! But in time where every smartphone user has a workstation in the pocket I don't think it would be impossible to have enough calculation power (Multi-Core Multi-GPU, etc...) for an operation like this! Thanks in advance

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.

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.

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.

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.

Draw/edit at an angle for drawing purposes, exact behavior as rotate canvas in Photoshop.

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...

I was slightly astonished and sadly amused that the Product Manager of Adobe Illustrator asked if we wanted to draw/edit at an angle.

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.

I couldn't rotate the canvas or Artboard in Illustrator. Badly need a "Rotate View Tool".

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.

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!

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