Rotating Design Components - Brother BES Lettering Instruction Manual

Rotating Design Components

Rotating a design component moves it around the center point
of the selection.The rotate tools on the Arrange tab may be
used to rotate Text or merged stitch designs through 90º
increments. To rotate text through a smaller angle, you can
rotate the selection using the handles.
See "Rotating the Text Frame" in the section on Creating Text.
You cannot use the Text tool to rotate merged segments, or text
segments that have been combined with merged stitch
segments.
To rotate segments manually:
1 Select one or more segments you want to rotate.
The active segment(s) is enclosed in a selection box with
handles.
2 Move your mouse over the blue rotation bead beside the top,
right or the bottom left design handle.
You see the cursor change to a circular arrow.
3 Click and drag the rotation bead to adjust the box to the
angle you want.
The number of degrees of rotation is displayed on the status
line in the bottom left corner of the Pacesetter BES Lettering
window.
To rotate design components using the Transform tools:
1 Select one or more design components you want to rotate.
The active design component(s) is enclosed in a selection
box.
2 From the Arrange tab on the ribbon, click either of the
following:
Rotate Left: Rotates one or more selected objects to the left
by 90º increments.
Rotate Right: Rotates one or more selected objects to the
right by 90º increments.
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