Selection box is weird when canvas is rotated

[aa51256026]

When canvas is rotated, selection box is unusable. Please fix this Adobe.

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[Monika Gause]

If you want to report something that should be fixed, please make a bug report/feature request at https://illustrator.uservoice.com

In this forum none of the engineers will read it.

[Anubhav M]

Hello @aa51256026,

I'm sorry to hear about your experience. I tried replicating this behavior but could not. Would you mind sharing more details, like the OS/Illustrator version and a screen recording of your exact workflow and the problem, so I can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

[Doug A Roberts]

@Anubhav M  -- when you say you could not replicate this, do you mean that after you use the rotate view tool to some angle other than a multiple of 90 degrees, selection marquees are level for you? Because I'm sure if so that information would be a surprise to Illustrator developers, never mind users.

[aa51256026]

When the artboard is rotated (especially if you're using a drawing monitor), using the selection tool becomes highly unpredictable and extremely confusing. I attached a sample video.

[aa51256026]

This issue is also mentioned in here 

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/442...

[Kurt Gold]

To call the current behaviour "unusable" depends on what you have on your artboards and what you're going to do. I can imagine many cases that would be difficult to handle if the selection marquee angle was not adapting to the rotated view.

For example, if you have a larger grid of evenly distributed objects (chequerboard), rotate the view by 30° and then want to quickly select the objects row by row (or column), many users may rather be appalled if the selection marquee was only working parallel to the screen.

So, if you want to do another feature request, please ask for an optional change and not for a replacement.

[aa51256026]

I don’t think so. The marquee behavior is so unpredictable that it makes everything more difficult. If it’s not fixed today, it will be fixed tomorrow. As canvas rotation gradually becomes more widely adopted, more users will grow frustrated with this strange situation.

[Kurt Gold]

Exactly what is "so unpredictable that it makes everything more difficult"?

I'm afraid your statement is just too vague to start a meaningful debate.

[Anubhav M]

Hello @aa51256026,

Sorry for the delayed response. Would you mind pressing the Ctrl/Cmd + E keys to check if it helps? If the problem persists, kindly share the system report for Windows / macOS, so I can check it with the team.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

[aa51256026]

GPU preview did not change anything. I'm using Win 11/illustrator 2025 last version.

[Doug A Roberts]

@Anubhav M can you share a screenshot of your view rotated 45 degrees and the selection marquee you get when drag-selecting with the black arrow?