pymel.core.general.rotate¶

rotate(obj, *args, **kwargs)¶

The rotate command is used to change the rotation of geometric objects. The rotation values are specified as Euler angles (rx, ry, rz). The values are interpreted based on the current working unit for Angular measurements. Most often this is degrees. The default behaviour, when no objects or flags are passed, is to do a absolute rotate on each currently selected object in the world space.

Modifications:

• allows any iterable object to be passed as first argument:

  rotate("pSphere1", [0,1,2])
  

NOTE: this command also reorders the argument order to be more intuitive, with the object first

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
absolute / a		bool
	Perform an absolute operation.
centerPivot / cp		bool
	Let the pivot be the center of the bounding box of all objects
componentSpace / cs		bool
	Rotate in local component space
constrainAlongNormal / xn		bool
	When true, transform constraints are applied along the vertex normal first and only use the closest point when no intersection is found along the normal.
deletePriorHistory / dph		bool
	If true then delete the history prior to the current operation.
euler / eu		bool
	Modifer for -relative flag that specifies rotation values should be added to current XYZ rotation values.
forceOrderXYZ / fo		bool
	When true, euler rotation value will be understood in XYZ rotation order not per transform node basis.
objectCenterPivot / ocp		bool
	Let the pivot be the center of the bounding box of each object
objectSpace / os		bool
	Perform rotation about object-space axis.
orientAxes / oa		float, float, float
	Euler axis for orientation.
pivot / p		float, float, float
	Define the pivot point for the transformation
preserveChildPosition / pcp		bool
	When true, transforming an object will apply an opposite transform to its child transform to keep them at the same world-space position. Default is false.
preserveGeometryPosition / pgp		bool
	When true, transforming an object will apply an opposite transform to its geometry points to keep them at the same world-space position. Default is false.
preserveUV / puv		bool
	When true, UV values on rotated components are projected across the rotation in 3d space. For small edits, this will freeze the world space texture mapping on the object. When false, the UV values will not change for a selected vertices. Default is false.
reflection / rfl		bool
	To move the corresponding symmetric components also.
reflectionAboutBBox / rab		bool
	Sets the position of the reflection axis at the geometry bounding box
reflectionAboutOrigin / rao		bool
	Sets the position of the reflection axis at the origin
reflectionAboutX / rax		bool
	Specifies the X=0 as reflection plane
reflectionAboutY / ray		bool
	Specifies the Y=0 as reflection plane
reflectionAboutZ / raz		bool
	Specifies the Z=0 as reflection plane
reflectionTolerance / rft		float
	Specifies the tolerance to findout the corresponding reflected components
relative / r		bool
	Perform a operation relative to the object’s current position
rotateX / x		bool
	Rotate in X direction
rotateXY / xy		bool
	Rotate in X and Y direction
rotateXYZ / xyz		bool
	Rotate in all directions (default)
rotateXZ / xz		bool
	Rotate in X and Z direction
rotateY / y		bool
	Rotate in Y direction
rotateYZ / yz		bool
	Rotate in Y and Z direction
rotateZ / z		bool
	Rotate in Z direction
symNegative / smn		bool
	When set the component transformation is flipped so it is relative to the negative side of the symmetry plane. The default (no flag) is to transform components relative to the positive side of the symmetry plane.
translate / t		bool
	When true, the command will modify the node’s translate attribute instead of its rotateTranslate attribute, when rotating around a pivot other than the object’s own rotate pivot.
worldSpace / ws		bool
	Perform rotation about global world-space axis.
xformConstraint / xc		unicode
	Apply a transform constraint to moving components. none - no constraintsurface - constrain components to the surfaceedge - constrain components to surface edgeslive - constraint components to the live surfaceFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.rotate

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# create a circle and grouped cone to rotate;
pm.circle( n='circle1' )
# Result: [nt.Transform(u'circle1'), nt.MakeNurbCircle(u'makeNurbCircle1')] #
pm.cone( ax=(0, 1, 0), n='cone1' )
# Result: [nt.Transform(u'cone1'), nt.MakeNurbCone(u'makeNurbCone1')] #
pm.group( 'cone1', n='group1' )
# Result: nt.Transform(u'group1') #

# rotate the active objects 45 degrees about the world space X axis
# centered at each object's rotate pivot point.
pm.select( 'cone1' )
pm.rotate( '45deg', 0, 0, r=True )

# Set the rotation values for group1 to (90, 0, 0). This is
# equivalent to:
#   pm.setAttr('group1.rx',90)
#   pm.setAttr('group1.ry',0)
#   pm.setAttr('group1.rz',0)
pm.rotate( '90deg', 0, 0, 'group1' )

# rotate the circle 180 degrees about its local space Y axis
# centered at the rotate pivot point 1 0 0.
pm.rotate( 0, '180deg', 0, 'circle1', pivot=(1, 0, 0) )