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Monday, August 15, 2016

Dynamo Tutorial - Rotate Multiple Elements on Their Own Axis



A reader (sorry, I lost your email and name!) emailed in and asked about rotating a series of elements by something other than 90 degrees.  She referenced an OLD post I published (circa 2011) about selecting columns and rotating them all 90 degrees using the space bar.   This was an interesting little task to think about.  When you select more than one element and use the "rotate" command they rotate about one axis:



After attempting to place some reference planes and use the space bar method without success I decided to fire up Dynamo... Here is the simple script...






Now, you can select as many elements you want and rotate them by their OWN axis in one click... Pretty cool "practical" Dynamo.  Simply select your elements, input the rotation amount (the blue "30" in the example above) and click run.  All it takes it three out-of-the-box nodes.

Pretty neat, huh?!





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Thank for the tip
2 replies · active 448 weeks ago
Excellent tip. I am new to Dynamo. Question, do i have to write the code or is there an out of the box code I can use?
disregard previous comment. I figured it out. thanks for the tip
Thanks for this tip, very powerful!!!
Is it a way that we can use this method for text is well?
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ela torado · 358 weeks ago

And for doing the same thing, but selecting groups instead of elements?
Is there a dynamo node to randomly rotate elements?

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