Zhao: You can use the AGEN command along with a cylindrical coordinate system to rotate areas. Regards Dan Shaw ANSYS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Jianhui Zhao Subject: [mems-talk] rotation in ANSYS I'm working on ANSYS modeling and analysis right now. Anyone knows how to rotate a area by 90 degree? I want to copy a area and rotate it 90 degree to put it into another position.