About Rotating Sketch Geometry
You can rotate the sketch geometry within an active sketch. You can also rotate the sketch geometry when you paste a copied geometry or import existing geometry within an active sketch.
Consider the following points when you rotate sketch geometry:
• You can use the translation handle as the center of rotation.
• You can drag the translation handle independent of the geometry, and constrain it to:
◦ The geometry itself
◦ Other sketch geometry within the same sketch group
◦ Geometry that belongs to the subgroups within the active sketch group
◦ An external reference geometry, if the selected geometry is the top-level sketch
• You can select a reference to define the rotation reference. This reference can be a Sketcher point, Sketcher coordinate system, endpoint of geometry, construction, or reference geometry.
• If the translation handle is constrained to a Sketcher point, Sketcher coordinate system, or an endpoint of an entity, the constrained entity appears as a reference in the Rotate Resize tab.
• A counterclock icon appears along the rotation handle that identifies the positive rotation direction and the angle of rotation with respect to the original rotation.
• The rotation angle dimension is a temporary dimension. You can select this dimension and specify the required rotation angle or specify a value in the Rotate collector of the Rotate Resize tab.