Spinning Your Design

  1. Click Spin in the Orient group on the Design tab or in the status bar.
    You can also select one of the following from the Spin dropdown:
    • On Center to spin around the center of your design.
    • On Cursor to spin around the cursor location.
    • Rotate 90 Clockwise to rotate your design 90° in a clockwise direction.
    • Rotate 90° Counterclockwise to rotate your design 90° in a counterclockwise direction.
  2. Click and drag to spin your design.

    If you start dragging on a highlighted line, edge, or axis, you can rotate your design around it. You can remove this feature by setting the advanced SpaceClaim option Rotate about preselected object in spin. (Press Alt and drag to rotate around a highlighted object even when this option is not selected.)

    Note: Set the Rotate about preselected object in spin option. Then, when working in any tool, position the middle mouse button on the face, edge, plane, or axis about which you want to spin your design, and drag to spin.
    You may find it easier to reach a desired orientation if you use short mouse drags to spin the design a little bit at a time.
    If you double-click a face while using the Spin tool, the face is zoomed so that it fills the design window. You can also switch to the Zoom tool temporarily by holding down the Ctrl key while turning the mouse wheel.