Posted by georgesbasement on Aug 05, 2017; 10:05pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/How-to-Create-a-Block-tp5715012p5715154.html

The problem I'm experiencing above might be circumvented if I can set the point about which my selected block of nineteen entities is to be rotated (and thereby moved). How can I set this rotation point with the command line ? I can easily find the appropriate position of that point by moving the cursor and reading the pair of numbers at the lower left of my 'puter screen. But I can find  no command to that effect.

Aha ! Figgered it out. Start from your freshly opened original drawing. Enter the command "ro" which is short for rotate. You will be asked to perform a selection step. What worked for me is the "Select Window" option from among  the left-side toolbar icons; after I moved the cursor across my nineteen entities to select all of them, including the associated text labels, I pressed Enter and was prompted for a rotation center (which I previously had measured with the cursor) and entered in the command line window at the bottom of the screen; next is the reference point, which I made the same as the rotation axis. When I subsequently hit Enter again, moving the cursor and hitting Enter yet again opened a dialog box where the exact angle could be set while choosing to delete or retain the original. I chose retain, of course, and that left me with the desired result.