Designer - Rotate entire image? Also create new document from clipboard turns into pixels

[Judy K]

I'm designing graphics to be cut with a laser cutter. I often need two copies of the same document - one horizontal and one vertical so I can pick which version fits the material on the laser cutter bed.

I'm finding it hard to rotate an entire document. I can select all the object or layers and rotate that easily but the canvas does not rotate with it. I tried using an artboard created from my selection but it does not rotate with the objects either and although I can rotate the artboard, because the objects rotate about a different axis from the artboard I lose the objects off the side somewhere. I can't select both my objects and the artboard to rotate them at the same time. 

Next I tried copying the objects and creating a new document from the clipboard and that seems to have created it as a pixel layer because my stroke widths are now in pixels. For laser cutting it's important that the lines be a particular width or they will not cut.

Help! All suggestions welcomed because I have to do this a lot.

[v_kyr]

Did you already tried this ? ...

• Rotate document view

[Judy K]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Did you already tried this ? ...

• Rotate document view

Unfortunately that only rotates it on the screen. The actual file is not rotated.

[v_kyr]

Create a new document, if the initial one was in landscape (horizonal) format then setup a portrait (vertical) oriented one with the needed size, resolution etc. values. - Afterwards take over (copy/paste) all layers from the initial landscape doc to the portrait oriented doc and after pasting, rotate all layers as needed (in your case probably for 90°).

[carl123]

5 hours ago, Judy K said:

I tried using an artboard

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

[loukash]

14 hours ago, Judy K said:

I tried using an artboard created from my selection but it does not rotate with the objects either and although I can rotate the artboard, because the objects rotate about a different axis from the artboard I lose the objects off the side somewhere. I can't select both my objects and the artboard to rotate them at the same time. 

The "Lock Children" status is the key:

 

[Judy K]

On 2/17/2023 at 5:00 AM, loukash said:

The "Lock Children" status is the key

Thank you! Lock children was off the righthand side of my UI so I had to go looking for it but it does the job.

Judy

[Godlessape]

I want to rotate and export an image from landscape to portrait, why does it not just rotate to the orientation that I set it to when I close the document? Surely that's quite an intuitive feature - procreate does that. Seems bothersome that I have to create a whole new canvas and copy paste everything just to rotate something (like a scene of stars)