# Rotating less than one degree or in between whole number degrees?

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [February 25, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/rotating-less-than-one-degree-or-in-between-whole-number-degrees/17634 "2022-02-25T04:31:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dreu](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/dreu)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/rotating-less-than-one-degree-or-in-between-whole-number-degrees/17634/1 "2022-02-25T04:31:47Z")

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I’m trying to rotate an object on one of it’s edges using the _rotate on axis_ tool. I’m trying to rotate it .5 degrees. But there’s no decimal point in the keypad popup window. And I noticed that after I first tried to type in ‘.’-‘5’ with my keyboard–it displays: 0°5’

And after fiddling around I arrived at: 0°5’5"

a) are we able to rotate on degrees that are in between whole numbers, and b) what does the apostrophe and quotation marks mean in a degree reading?

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**Author:** ![SM1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@SM1](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SM1)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/rotating-less-than-one-degree-or-in-between-whole-number-degrees/17634/2 "2022-02-25T07:52:49Z")

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You have it set to fractional. In the top right you can select what kind of units you want, and there you can set degrees to decimal. That’s why you can’t see a decimal in the keyboard.

Then you should be able to do a 0.5 rotation. Since its such a small amount its a little hard to notice 😅