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 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 tablet, then you have to use the extended setting. You can certainly choose the duplicated or 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

Rotating in the operating system's Display Settings

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