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Rotation
This operation allows to rotate in space the mesh or some of its elements.

To rotate the mesh:

1. From the Modification menu choose Transformation -> Rotation item or click “Rotation”

button in the toolbar. The following dialog will appear:

2. In this dialog:

specify the IDs of the elements which will be rotated:

Select the whole mesh, submesh or group activating

this checkbox; or
choose mesh elements with the mouse in the 3D Viewer. It
is possible to select a whole area with a mouse frame; or
input the element IDs directly in ID Elements field. The
selected elements will be highlighted in the viewer; or

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apply Filters. Set filter button allows to apply a filter to the

selection of elements. See more about filters in the
Selection filter library page.

specify the axis of rotation:

specify the coordinates of the start Point of the vector of rotation;
specify the Vector of rotation through the coordinates of its end
point with respect to the coordinates of the start point;

specify the Angle of rotation

specify the conditions of rotation:

activate Move elements radio button to create the source

mesh (or elements) at the new location and erase it from
the previous location;
activate Copy elements radio button to create the source
mesh (or elements) at the new location, but leave it at the
previous location, the source mesh will be considered one
and single mesh with the result of the rotation;
activate Create as new mesh radio button to leave the
source mesh (or elements) at its previous location and
create a new mesh at the new location, the new mesh
appears in the Object Browser with the default name
MeshName_rotated (it is possible to change this name in
the adjacent box);
activate Copy groups checkbox to copy the groups of
elements of the source mesh to the newly created mesh.

activate Preview checkbox to show the result of transformation in the

viewer

click Apply or Apply and Close button to confirm the operation.

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The initial mesh

The rotated mesh

See Also a sample TUI Script of a Rotation operation.

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