[Quickly rotate view by 90°]

Thank you all. My initial failure to understand how keyboard shortcuts are configured was holding me back. I've now set up a few shortcuts based on your suggestions, and my problem is solved.

11 hours ago, carl123 said:

if using an Artboard, you can select the Artboard in the layers panel and use Layer > Transform > Rotate Left

Right, it makes sense to rotate the Artboard instead of the view. I have mapped Control-L to Layer -> Transform -> Rotate left

 

7 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Assign a keyboard shortcut, you still have to use the shortcut 6 times but you are only holding one key down and pressing the other six times so at least it's quicker.

I have also mapped Control-Shift-L to View -> Rotate Left and indeed it is much faster than clicking the menu.

 

7 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Try OS rotate screen 

That's a clever trick I will keep in mind

 

6 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Another option is to have two views … In the New View tab rotate the document -90º

Very cool, setting up two views works perfectly for this purpose.

I have just started learning Affinity Designer 2. You have all given me very helpful information today. Thank you!

[Quickly rotate view by 90°]

I often want to quickly rotate my document view 90° counter-clockwise so that I can check my work in both portrait and landscape orientation.

I haven't found a way to do this easily in Affinity Designer 2.

I know of three ways to rotate the document view that don't meet this particular need:

• View -> Rotate Left – this rotates -15° per click, requiring me to open the menu to and click it 6 times over before I get to -90°
• Canvas rotation with trackpad – this is a nice feature, but it is imprecise (no snapping) and doesn't allow me to rotate by exactly -90°
• Canvas rotation with ⌘ + scroll wheel – same as trackpad

Does anyone know how I can rotate the document view quickly by a specific angle? The best case would be a keyboard shortcut. Maybe there's a way to map a custom keyboard shortcut that I'm not aware of. Thanks