SF Symbols 6 app does not export 'Can Rotate' property of a layer

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Created Jul ’24

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The SF Symbols app 6.0 (99) does not export the ‘Can Rotate’ property of layers when exporting a symbol via File > Export Symbol.

Without this, all the new fantastic edit functions in the app related to rotating in SF Symbols is completely useless.

This issue with the SF Symbols 6 app can be reproduced by exporting a rotatable symbol like fan.desk, and then by importing the result as custom symbol. When inspecting ‘Group 1’ of the imported symbol, it is no longer marked as rotatable.

SF Symbols app 6.0 is still in beta, but hasn't been updated since 10 June. Hopefully this bug will be solved in the release version, or earlier.

Does anyone know how to manually add the missing rotation info to the exported SVG file?

In case an Apple engineer reads this: FB13916635

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alen_liang OP

Aug ’24

same here😢

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elemans OP

Oct ’24

The release version of SF Symbols 6 is now available, but it is still not possible to export rotatable symbols. The export file misses the 'Can Rotate' property and the anchor point.

For me it is totally unclear why the app contains fancy controls to set the anchor point, mark layers as rotatable, but without the possibility to export this.

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