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Save Rotation Center Point

Explorer ,
Aug 13, 2024 Aug 13, 2024

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Is there a way to permanantly save the center of an object in Illustrator?

 

Right now I can select an object, click the rotation tool, Alt-Click to move the center point to make the dialogue box appear, press OK, and the object rotates around the point I've set as expected (this also works without Alt-Click but a lot of troubleshoot threads point to its significance). However when I deselect the object and do other stuff in my document then I click back to the object I set a custom center for and use the rotate tool the object center resets back to default center.

 

If this isn't a current feature it would be super handy to have!

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Community Expert , Aug 13, 2024 Aug 13, 2024

In the meantime you may convert the object into a symbol.

 

Symbols do support persistent custom rotation centres (you have to set it while editing the symbol definition on the scratch area).

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Community Expert , Aug 13, 2024 Aug 13, 2024

gourlie.goods,

 

Maybe far too far out, but until the feature request is implemented or till the end of time, whichever occurs first, you can Click the desired centre point for the Rotate/Scale/Whatever Tool with the Ellipse Tool and set the Height and Width to 0, then Group with the path/group/clipping set/whichever (kind of) object

 

After that you can always see the centre point when selecting the object and snap to it with the help of Smart Guides (saying either anchor or center, working acc

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That is currently not supported. But there is already a feature request that you might want to support: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/315... 

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Yikes, that request was from 2017! I'll definitely support that request but I guess this isn't going to happen anytime soon. 🙃 Thanks for finding that!

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In the meantime you may convert the object into a symbol.

 

Symbols do support persistent custom rotation centres (you have to set it while editing the symbol definition on the scratch area).

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Awesome! Just tested this and it will work in the meantime, thanks.

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gourlie.goods,

 

Maybe far too far out, but until the feature request is implemented or till the end of time, whichever occurs first, you can Click the desired centre point for the Rotate/Scale/Whatever Tool with the Ellipse Tool and set the Height and Width to 0, then Group with the path/group/clipping set/whichever (kind of) object

 

After that you can always see the centre point when selecting the object and snap to it with the help of Smart Guides (saying either anchor or center, working accurately in either case), then do the desired deed, at any time, also after reopening/restarting document/Ai/computer.

 

 

Edit: I wonder whether it may be relevant to mention in connexion with the request, @Egor Chistyakov

 

 

Edit edit: Or what Kurt said while I was delayed in posting.

 

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