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Hugh Betcha
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July 11, 2010
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_How do I rotate the view in Ai?

  • July 11, 2010
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_How do I rotate the view in Ai? - seems simple - can't find it....

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elouda.std
Participant
October 19, 2019

adobe is suck for understanding user experience, why they created a community website if they leave it. 

2010 until 2019 still dont have the rotate view??!! wht a shame, I am sure any user need this. 

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 21, 2019
Participant
January 17, 2019

Hello World!


2019 and this is still a wish...
My coworker is working on some upside down food packaging, editing everything that way LOL
I started searching, found this thread

and then thought to myself: what about the 3D Rotate Effect?
This idea is in its birth; you could basically add that effect (Effects -> 3D -> Rotate) but still have the original artwork un-rotated + editable for normal "viewing"

Just my 2 "aurar".

-G

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 18, 2019

If that's what you wanted, you could do the same thing with the Transform effect.

Participant
January 21, 2019

Yeah as long as it's the "live" effect 'Transform' I guess


The rotate canvas (or view) feature would of course be fantastic but I think it might be too complicated to represent rotated XY vectors on a low-level.

LauriAaltio
Known Participant
March 21, 2018

package design upsidedown areas: solution was to choose all and rotate all 180 degrees. grid alignement is lost though.

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 10, 2017

I'd suggest everyone who wants this to go over to the uservoice page, have a vote and perhaps comment.

Illustrator - Rotation of the Artboard – Adobe Illustrator Feedback

May 18, 2017

Would be nice to have some answer from AI team like:

Hey guys, we're not ignoring You, this is just horribly difficult to add and we have got a separate team of programmers working on it in the basement since last 5 years. They have been told they will never see the sunlight until the feature does.

Participant
May 3, 2017

Adding my voice the the 6 year old chorus... working in packaging design and would love to be able simply roate the canvas!

Participant
January 12, 2017

Um. InDesign does this as well.

Inspiring
January 12, 2017

My food manufacturer client requires everything be 100% built in a specific version of Illustrator. Many groups require Illustrator. I don't get to choose software.

Participant
January 12, 2017

Oh! yes. I understand perfectly, I have that issue myself and need Illustrator to have that feature. That InDesign reply was for this post:

Bit rude, Wade…

Correct Answerby Wade_Zimmerman on Jul 11, 2010 4:57 AM

What makes you think you can?

The only program I know that does this is Photoshop!

The answer is you don't!

enidenidenid
Participant
September 19, 2016

This topic started off in 2010, 6 years later we still don't have a solution Adobe!

I am in packaging field, making some copy changes on the existing artwork for the side panel - Client has decided to add in extra copies to the ingredient info list so we have to readjust the position and size of the text boxes. I had to rotate the whole art, made my tweaks and realign my objects, rotate the art back.

What worse?

Turned out we have 10 different packs of the same size, I had to repeat these steps 10 times. Things starting to jump on the presentation deck cause of poor alignments - I couldn't have all my 10 files opened and rotate at the same time to use cmd+B paste in place, it's artwork files with heavy high res links, my illustrator will crash.

Any further changes on the next round, me and my team will have to repeat the above steps. 

When 20 rounds of refinements are pretty common in the branding/packaging industry, this totally doesn't make sense to me.

10 packs of the same size are quite normal, sometimes we have 30 or above, it's not cost and time efficient at all.

Participant
September 30, 2016

I also do packaging... this is why I design in InDesign which I much prefer anyway... printing houses have the complete Adobe Suite anyway. And I use Master templates for products that have a variety of flavours...

Inspiring
September 30, 2016

I would love to use Indesign. My client uses packagers that demand Illustrator, on top of that Illustrator CS6. No fun at all.

rcraighead
Legend
January 23, 2016

My art professor taught me to paint and draw with the stationary artboard. That has translated well to the computer and I've never used the "rotate canvas" feature in PS. Probably never will.

Known Participant
January 23, 2016

Is your professor had designed the side of the box product upside down... ?

rcraighead
Legend
January 23, 2016

Ha! Probably not. That's where I'd use a symbol and work right side up, then rotate the symbol.

I don't care if this feature is introduced, I just feel there are more important tools that need to be fixed or improved.

Participating Frequently
January 23, 2016

Too bad I'm using it in Windows.