Rotating a drawing tablet

For various reasons you may want to rotate your tablet to use it in a different orientation.

Most drawing tablets support these rotations:

• Some support all four orientations

• Some only support two orientations

• Some support only a single orientation

Summary of steps

• Configure the driver app to perform the rotation

• If you have a pen display

  • ensure you are extending the desktop to the pen display, not duplicating it

  • In the system's display settings, rotate the the the desktop on the pen display

• Physically rotate the tablet

• You can perform these steps in any order.

Notes for pen displays

If you have a monitor and a pen display, your desktop is either:

• duplicated/mirrored across both (both show the exact same thing)

• or extended across them (they show different things)

If you want to rotate your table, then you have to use the extended setting. You can certainly choose the duplicated/mirrored setting - but it will not give you the behavior that you want.

Video Demonstration

Here is a demonstration of how to rotate a pen display: https://youtu.be/_OkANovOxBQ

Rotating in the Driver

Wacom

Note that not all Wacom tablets have an Orientation option.

Huion driver

XP-Pen driver

Brand-specific information

• HUION - Setting Up the Left-hand Mode for Your Huion Tablets

Rotating in the operating system's Display Settings

• Windows instructions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-screen-orientation-f7ab1ff8-971d-58a5-b8ee-bc113bbf3acb
• MacOS instructions: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/rotate-the-image-on-your-display-mh11534