Users may want to rotate components to ease the circuit's connections, or to make them more aesthetically pleasing.
To rotate a component:
- Select the component you want to rotate.
- Selected items have blue boxes around them.
- Click either Edit > Rotate Clockwise or Rotate Counterclockwise, depending on the action you'd like to perform.
- Or use the Button on top of the canvas.
- Or right-click to open the context menu and select Rotate Clockwise or Rotate Counterclockwise
- Note that Rotate works in 90-degree increments, so turning a component four times rotates it 360 degrees, and thus returns it to its original position.
- The hotkeys, or shortcut keys, for Rotate are CTRL+R (right, or clockwise), or CTRL+SHIFT+R (left, or counter-clockwise).
Alternately, you can click on the small circle with an arrow (close to the block) to rotate the component. Wait for the cursor to turn to a hand icon while hovering over the circular arrow, then click the left mouse button, and rotate the component freely.
- See a list of all other hotkeys here: Shortcuts & Hotkeys.
For more on selecting elements, see Building a Circuit > Selecting Elements.
To add items to a selection before rotating: See Building a Circuit > Selecting Elements.
To remove items from a selection before rotating: See Building a Circuit > Selecting Elements.