Rotate Face

Add-on for Blender 4.2+ and up
Rotate selected faces, without breaking adjacent faces plane orientations.

How to use:

• in mesh Edit Mode: Face menu [Ctrl+F] > 'Rotate Face' (at the very bottom)
• or hit Spacebar -> search for: 'Rotate Face'

After entering modal Rotate Face mode you can use following keys:

• [LMB/R]: Rotate faces
• [E/G]: Pull faces along normal
• [X/Y or Z]: Axis Snap
• [Shift] + [X/Y or Z] - rotating plane axis collapse - e. g. Shift+X will transform plane normal vector from (x,y,z) to (0, y, z)
• [B]: Bisect Mode - will slice geometry
• [ESC/RMB]: Finish

Update 1.1 + 1.2 (08.05.2020)

• better push/pull clamping (verts will merge, preventing selected face flip or deformations)
• fix bad result when running Rotate face from ctrl+F menu

Update 1.3 (23.08.2021) - Last Version with Gizmo

• fix crash in latest blender 2.93.3

Update 1.4 (26.04.2022) - non Gizmo version (it was dropped because of gizmo bug in Blender)

• rewrote the addon to not the use gizmos (since bug in blender that does not seems to be fixed any time soon)
• added auto- updater

Updated 1.5 (04.05.2022) - non Gizmo version,

• nicer 3D View 'fake' Gizmo,
• added [Ctrl+RMB] and [Ctrl+Shift+RMB] for face selection when running Rotate Face operator,
• added [Shift + X/Y/Z] - rotation plane axis collapse - eg. Shift+X will transform plane normal from (x,y,z) to (0, y, z)
• fix error when running Rotate Face from Header -> Face menu.
• fake gizmo is now drawn in constant screen space scale
• bug fixes

Updated 1.7 (22.03.2023)

• fix being unable to move rotated face in some cases

Updated 1.8 (06.04.2023)

• compatibility fixes with blender 3.5

Updated 1.9 (03.03.2024)

• added option to add 'Rotate Face' entry to edit mode context menu,

Update 2.0.0 (18.03.2025),

• Compatibility fixes for latest Blender 4.x,