Designer 2.3 adds "Move Data Entry Improvements" form. What is the difference between 'angle' and 'rotation'?

[Punch Card]

I do not use Designer much but am considering it much more because of this form. But I cannot understand the what the 'angle' input is for. The 'rotation' does rotate each object by the specified degrees but then what is the 'angle' for? I cannot find the information in the documentation. Can you provide an example which shows the difference between 0 and 45 degrees angle?

[MikeTO]

13 minutes ago, Punch Card said:

I do not use Designer much but am considering it much more because of this form. But I cannot understand the what the 'angle' input is for. The 'rotation' does rotate each object by the specified degrees but then what is the 'angle' for? I cannot find the information in the documentation. Can you provide an example which shows the difference between 0 and 45 degrees angle?

It's a bit confusing but angle has nothing to do with rotation and there are two ways to specify the offset. You can specify the horizontal and vertical offset from the object's X/Y coordinates, or you can specify the distance from those coordinates at an angle. For example, entering 10 into vertical and horizontal will result in a distance of 14.1 and angle of -45 degrees. It might have been easier to understand had the two sets of options been grouped to make it more obvious but it works very well.

Cheers