Rotate point markers and labels

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In this video, we're going to learn how to manipulate markers and labels for points.

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What we're going to specifically do is we're going to learn how to rotate markers only, rotate labels only, rotate markers and labels together,

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and create a drag state for a label.

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So we're going to work our way clockwise around this parcel.

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First, we're going to go to this point here.

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And if you select it and you hover over the grip at it, what you can see is you have a choice for move point, rotate label and marker, rotate marker.

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And under this grip, you can say move label or rotate label.

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So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to rotate that marker.

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So by selecting that, you can see your point marker rotates, but your point label stays the same.

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So we're going to go ahead and select a new rotation for that point marker and escape out.

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Now we'll move on to this next one and we're going to choose to rotate the label.

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So if you choose rotate label, you can rotate this label.

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And as you can see, the readability for this orients the text differently based on how you're rotating around this point.

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We're going to set a new rotation for that label and move on to the next one.

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You can see that the label rotated, but the marker did not.

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From here, we're going to go ahead and we're going to choose Rotate label and marker.

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So as we rotate this label, the label rotates and so does the marker.

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As you can see, they're both moving together.

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So we're going to set a new orientation for this label and marker, and then we're going to go on to the next point, which is our last one,

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and we're going to set a drag state for this.

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So if you go to the Label Grip Edit, you can go to Move label.

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And what that effectively does is it allows you to move the text around the drawing and it will create a leader that will point to the point,

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but move the text off to and away from it, wherever we set it to.