Suppose you want to draw a footprint for a part like:
http://industrial.panasonic.com/www-data/pdf/ATR0000/ATR0000CE9.pdfThe navigation switch's pads are drawn in the datasheet rotated 45 degrees, so that the switch directions are natural (up, down, etc). But it is easier to draw them at right angles because it is easier to use the given measurements that way. So, suppose you draw them first at right angles and at the end just rotate everything 45 degrees. With that in mind I started looking for the "rotate" tool in Altium... but I could not find it. I searched for it in their wiki-based documentation but found nothing I could use.
The only way I found to do it was to copy, paste special, circular array, 45 degrees, twice. I had to delete the original and also the 1st copy of the circular pattern in order to leave the 45 degree version. Talk about awkward. In eagle you just select, type "rotate r45" in the command console and apply to group.
So am I missing something obvious or does Altium really lack a basic rotate tool ?
EDIT:
Thank you for the responses, they have been very useful.
For future readers, I'll enumerate the most practical methods:
To rotate a selection in Altium's Footprint Editor around a common axis, you can:
1. Select Objects.
Go to Edit->Move->Rotate (or type E,M,O for Edit-Move-rOtate)
Specify the angle in the dialog box.
Click a point around which the selection will rotate.
2. Right click on empty workspace and select Options->Preferences (or type O,P for Options->Preferences)
Browse to PCB Editor->General.
In there, set the 'Rotation Step' to whatever makes sense in the footprint.
Select Objects.
Click and hold as if you were going to move the selection, then press space to step through rotations.