Rotating ellipses and circles

After creating an ellipse or circle you can easily change the angle it slopes at.

To rotate an ellipse

1. Select the ellipse (see Selecting objects).

2. Choose the Ellipse Tool or the QuickShape Tool

3. Shift-drag a handle to rotate and scale the ellipse.

Tips

As you rotate the ellipse it will also scale, if you do not want it to scale, hold down CTRL too.

Ellipses can also be rotated using the Selector Tool - see Rotating objects.

You can also rotate an ellipse using the drop-down list on the Ellipse Tool Infobar or the QuickShape Tool Infobar. Choose Rotation from the list and change the angle on the right (in degrees).

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