I don’t know why you can’t. I can certainly rotate to .001 without issue. I can go even further than that but the display precision will only show a tilde because it will only show to 3 decimals.
I thought it might be an ability that was added later than 2017. If you cannot figure out why I cannot then I will just have to redraw. It doesn’t happen very often, so isn’t much of a problem.
Can you add a simple file where you have rotated an edge by the smallest you can.
The biggest problem I have isn’t edges, its rectangles. I can by working at it get a line to rotate. Here is a simple rectangle. No matter what I do, it will not rotate smaller than .1
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Go, Window/Model Info/Units and change the angle unit setting to 0.000
Then try rotating.
I already have it set to 0.000 and will not rotate less than .1
When I open your uploaded model it is set to 0.0
Sorry about that I had changed it. Here it is at 0.000 and I still cannot get it to rotate less than .1
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No issues here.
Perhaps it is one of those odd things caused by a less than exact installation.
Find the Install.exe or download a fresh copy, select it and Right Click and choose Run as Admin, follow the prompts and select Repair if it is offered.
This won’t change any installed extensions or anything, it just cleans the install.
Thanks, I will try that
It is weird, it improved it somewhat by repairing SketchUp. I can now rotate by .01 if the rectangle is not grouped. But it still only rotates by .1 when it is grouped. But at least I can rotate by a smaller angle now. Thank You
This was really helpful! I’m going to give this a go, and see what is out of whack in my model. You’re right my problem was only partially fixed. While I know now how to fix an alignment problem, it still doesn’t stop it from happening in the first place. and with Rob’s suggestion, i believe I can see what is causing my misalignment to begin with. Thanks again Rob!
Regarding rotations of very small angles, you might try over-rotating by a couple of degrees, then rotating back by the overage amount. For example, perhaps you want to rotate clockwise by 0.001 degree. Try first rotating clockwise by 2.001 degrees, then rotating counter-clockwise by 2.000 degrees.
I have seen a similar behavior with very small Move distances (with SketchUp Pro 2018). SketchUp seems to essentially ignore very small movement distances. So I perform small movements either via the “Dave” method of using a scaled-up instance of the component, or I over-move by a larger distance (e.g., 2.001 inches) and then reverse-move to the final position (-2.000 inches).