Specify center of rotation

Yeah, this feature is needed, especially where prototyping is key. I require an off center rotation, but when animated it does all sorts of weird movements.

It’s crazy you can’t change the rotation registration point of an object. What?!

I need this

This is an awesome trick. I was fooling around with plugins whit shitty UX, happy I found your post!

Thanks! I kinda wanted to make a plugin for this too. Do you think if a plugin allowed you to specify an anchor point and then put the object in a frame with the center at that point it would work better than plugins you tried? All on-canvas editing, no UI, just simplifying what’s already possible natively. Or is this also bad UX? 😃 It’s tough to make a plugin any other way due to the way plugins work in Figma.

I tried the plugin Rotate Origin, but I found that to be overly complicated and a bit unintuitive. In an ideal situation I would say it should work something like this:

• Select the object you want to rotate
• Drop a rotation anchor and adjust by dragging it to the exact location you want it to be
• Add a rotation value
• And go!

Oh true! Nice idea, thanks for sharing. I may build this someday. 😅

My kingdom for this feature. Rotating or scaling at a custom origin is vital to vector illustration or graphic creation. If Figma could focus more on stuff like this and improving its vector tools in general I could finally drop Adobe Illustrator.

Please Figma, this is one of the basic editing tasks.

please add this missing feature. can’t believe this is really missing. I don’t need it often but in a few cases it is really annoying not to have it.

I also need this, pls add this feature.

I need this feature, please make this native.

Please add this feature. It’s way past due.

Ha, also creating a Gauge and this is exactly where I landed.

I keep running into these egregious oversights by the Figma developers that have me shaking my head in disbelief. Moving the center of rotation is such a basic and necessary feature, why even call yourself a design tool if you don’t implement some of the most basic things?

(and yet they have cycles to implement janky AI “features”)

(also, it seems the upvote functionality has been removed from the forums, hence this suggestion only has 6 upvotes, but 39 replies….)

We finally got this feature! it only took.. check notes… 4 years!

 

It looks like they’ve finally added this feature, though I’m not sure when. I stumbled upon it just this morning, and at first, I couldn’t figure out how to make the anchor point pop up until I did the following:

1. Select the element you want to rotate.
2. Hover your mouse over either the top-right or top-left corner of the element until the rotate icon appears (it won’t work with the bottom corners).
3. Hold it there for a few seconds until the anchor point shows up, and voilà!

Just press Alt+R in WIN or Option+R In MAC and it will appear!

Late to the party, but I have the answer to this question.
1. Make sure you have the latest version of figma
2. Select an element (Shape/text/etc)
3. Press Alt+R (WIN) / Option+R (MacOS) to reveal the anchor point

Enjoy!


P.S. Didn’t read all the way down the comments. Lol. Looks like this has been solved above already. 🤣