idea Ability to see and update map rotation angle on the top toolbar in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Ability to see and update map rotation angle on the top toolbar

PamelaLocke1 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:49:30 GMT

Arcmap used to have a box on the toolbar that showed the map rotation, I could input my own rotation by typing in a number, or I could use the data frame tools to rotate the map (so it's not always pointing north). In Pro, I either have to use the navigation button (which doesn't tell me what the rotation is), or open the map properties to see what the rotation is /change it manually (too many clicks). Or, I can set up a dynamic text box that shows the rotation, but this doesn't allow me to type in a number to change the rotation.

I'd love to see something up on the toolbar - maybe the View-->Navigation toolbar that shows what map rotation is as well as allowed you to update it.

Re: Ability to see and update map rotation angle on the top toolbar

PamelaLocke1 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:24:32 GMT

Show rotation

MarcelSt-Germain — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:59:52 GMT

Hi,

My idea is to add an rotation window beside the scale one. When planing maps, it's time consuming to always go on map properties to change and test the good rotation.

Now

With rotation

Re: Show rotation

MErikReedAugusta — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:09:54 GMT

For "quick & dirty" eyeballing, there's also the Navigator, on the View Ribbon:

Sometimes, I'll spin the Navigator to get things close, then fine tune with properties. But then I still often find myself having to test multiple options, so it still doesn't save a huge amount of time.

I would love to be able to enter the value directly exactly as the post here suggests. There's plenty of screen real estate to add that to the bottom of the Map View's panel in an intuitive way, and this seems from an end-user's perspective like it should be a piece of cake to implement. There's already plenty of precedent in the system's UI architecture.

Re: Ability to see and update map rotation angle on the top toolbar

LindaGreen — Wed, 21 May 2025 04:08:28 GMT

I miss having easily visible rotation the most when I'm editing annotation in a strip map where each page has different angles.

Even if I use the tile labels to annotation geoprocessing tool, inevitably some labels need to be adjusted manually. If I create a new label, I either have to click on some other annotation on the page to know what angle I need to use for that page, or I have to go into the map properties to know what angle to give it.

Or, if I've tweaked the annotation symbology after creating it and it doesn't fall under the saved symbology anymore, I'll save my new symbol to a style to re-use it, except that also saves the angle, which is then wrong for every subsequent page and needs to be adjusted, which means I have to go into the map properties to check the angle on every subsequent page.

Having the angle shown up-front somewhere instead of buried in layer properties would make editing annotation a lot less frustrating for me. The data frame tools toolbar is one of the few things left I miss about ArcMap.

I don't spend much time with the navigator wheel, so I'd probably rather see this info next to the scale (closer to how I had it in ArcMap), but I'll take the info anywhere I can get it. I also wouldn't mind seeing it as an option we can add to the quick access toolbar, or putting it near the explore tool.