topic Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations in ArcGIS Pro Questions

How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

JohnPlunkett — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:11:08 GMT

Is there a way to do this in ArcGIS Pro?

I may have missed the setting for this in ArcGIS Pro

How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

Thanks

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

Anonymous User — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:47:49 GMT

Hi John-

In ArcGIS Pro this setting exists as the Angle alignment property. You can choose to align symbols to the map instead of the display. This is a layer specific setting and not a general option applied to all layers.

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

JohnPlunkett — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:14:14 GMT

Hi Aaron

Thanks for the response - I think that Annotations are done slightly differently.

This is the settings I get for annotation symbology

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

KoryKramer — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:42:35 GMT

Wendy Harrison‌ Is there a way to do this in ArcGIS Pro?

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

WendyHarrison — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:19:01 GMT

I'll look into it

Wendy

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

WendyHarrison — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:58:08 GMT

Hi John,

Presently the only way to do this would be through code - converting the geometry of the annotation to a point.

What is the workflow you're trying to achieve? Would it be possible to do this through labeling? We have an option on the map properties to specify whether to rotate the point and polygon labels when the map is rotated.

General label settings—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

thanks,

Wendy

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

JohnPlunkett — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:01:49 GMT

Hi Wendy the user wanted to use annotations to have more fine grain control over the label position etc..

If you have an example of the code that would be helpful

Re: How To: Rotate geographic features in a data frame but maintain the left to right position of annotations

ZeMadmapper — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:38:39 GMT

Yes, exactly. Not annotations but labels....