Rotate end face of Cylinder keeping cylinder diameter I once saw a tutorial on YouTube that gave me a simple keystroke to rotate the end face of a cylinder without deforming the sides. I used it many times, but then didn't require it for a year, until now, when it would be really useful.
Most answers in public forums relate to using the bisect tool instead of rotate, but that was not the solution I came across on YouTube and interrupts workflow.
Does anybody know how to do this? It is extremely useful and precise, as you can simply enter [something] then [r] and then the degree, and it forms a perfect turn in the cylinder without crushing the sides.
You're probably looking for the Shear tool, shortcut AltCtrlShiftS (mh yes, you'd better not have lost a finger), it will make the selection slide on the X or Y (it's View orientation by default), then press 1 or -1 to get a 45° or -45° angle (the value is an Offset, not an angle, as you are not doing a rotation, you are sliding the vertices on an axis). Open the Operator box to enter or modify the values manually: