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guillo
guillo
Jul 3, 2023 3:54 PM UTC
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How to make a shape forget it's been rotated

I am creating an ‘infinite’ photo gallery. Basically a grid of images in various orientations that extends in all directions. I am creating empty rectangles to make the grid shape and then have other people paste their images into each rectangle. The problem I am having is a lot of the rectangles were rotated so when the image is pasted into it, the image is also rotated.

Is there a way to make all the rectangles ‘forget’ how they have been rotated and just work as a regular container for the images?

thanks

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    Tomas5
    Tomas5Solution
    Jul 4, 2023 8:19 AM UTC

    There is a workaround for “forgetting” rotation of the rectangle. Create new small rectangle inside the existing rectangle, select both rectangles, union selection and delete the small rectangle. if you now paste the image on Union layer, it will not be rotated.

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    Tomas5
    Tomas5Solution
    Jul 4, 2023 8:19 AM UTC

    There is a workaround for “forgetting” rotation of the rectangle. Create new small rectangle inside the existing rectangle, select both rectangles, union selection and delete the small rectangle. if you now paste the image on Union layer, it will not be rotated.

      guillo
      guilloAuthor
      Jul 5, 2023 2:05 PM UTC

      Except I already have hundreds of rectangles laid out, so I guess this is a start-over for me. Thanks for the tip.

      HUG
      Aug 16, 2023 11:32 AM UTC

      I selected and right clicked all elements I wanted to reset and “copied as svg” then pasted into Illustrator and the copied back. This set the bounding box of each element to only consist of vertical and horisontal lines, e.g forgetting the rotation of the elements.

        micropoozz
        Oct 23, 2023 7:24 AM UTC

        Ctrl+E. Or click right mouse button and choose “Flatten”.

          codatorfa
          Nov 6, 2023 4:47 AM UTC

          if you don’t want to flatten for some reason it seems that grouping again can do the trick

            Elli_Vizcaino
            Elli_Vizcaino
            Nov 16, 2023 2:28 PM UTC

            But when you ungroup the rotated vector is still left the same. @micropoozz solution to flatten is what works.

              Kylie_Jess
              Kylie_Jess
              Jul 22, 2024 12:57 AM UTC

              Thank you so much

              Smittee
              Smittee
              New Member
              Feb 28, 2025 1:52 PM UTC
              1. Copy as SVG
              2. Paste in Adobe illustrator
              3. Copy from Adobe illustrator
              4. Paste in Figma

              Wait for Figma to add 'Reset bouding box’ feature :-). 

              Martti Sirkkola
              Martti Sirkkola
              New Member
              Jun 23, 2025 5:48 PM UTC

              Oh man, this is the most annoying thing ever. When working with components inside components - not being able to reset the current rotation point is… it’s total chaos. I’m losing my mind.

              Rachel_Pardo
              Rachel_Pardo
              New Member
              Oct 22, 2025 9:16 AM UTC

              None of the following works:

              • flatting the vector (cmd + e)
              • merging (union) with another shape (e.g. a square) and flattening both
              • duplicating the same shape and merging (union)and flattening both

              This issue isn’t solved.

               

               

              What works is to export the vector as SVG and put back into Figma. But that’s not how the vector should work, that’s a hack.

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