
view in the Modeler Interface, we want to determine the 
angle of rotation from the top view. Looking at the field 
below the Top bufton we see a value. This is the angle 
between the two points in the top view. At this point, you 
could write down this value, close the requester, select the 
entire ruler and rotate it the desired number of degrees 
minus that value from the top view... 
 
10.write down the value in the Top fleld (the second field) 
   of the Angles/Rotate menu 
     this is the number of degrees we'll need to rotate our 
     object 

11.click Cancel 
    we don't want to rotate the object yet 

12.hit the "]' key on your keyboard 
    we need to select the entire ruler 

13.activate Distance 8 Angles 
    the Distance a Angles requester will appear 

Notice how the Distance 8 Angles requester now looks 
ditferent? This is because, based on your selection, you are 
not able to perform any measuring or scaling. Since you 
can't measure the distance between more than 2 points, 
Distance 8 Angles doesn't post these options. Ttlis is one of 
the benefits of Auto Sensing. 

When you have something selected, Distance 8 Angles 
always defaults to Selected. So, our reference axis will be 
determined from the ruler. But since we used the Affect All 
button to affect everything in the layer last time, it's still 
selected. Since the only thing we are interested in rotating is 
the ruler on the table. we'll need to select the Atfect Selected 
button... 

14.Select the AFFEcr SELECTED bufton 
    we only want to rotate the ruler that we've selected 

We want to rotate the ruler about its center so we can leave 
the X and Z Reference Axis buttons on Center (the Y button 
will have no affect in this example). And since we're rotating 
this object in the top view, we'll select the Top bufton... 

15. select the Rotate-Top button 
      we want to rotate the ruler in the top view 

By now it should be clear that the three fields correspond to 
rotation in the face, top, and left views respectively. What 
may not be clear is that by selecting one of the rotation 
