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I am trying to apply a rule to rotate symbols based on the value of an attribute.

I tried to copy Automatically changing the angle of a symbol in QGIS?, which is essentially my question, however it does not work for me.

I have a layer with two attributes, the slope and aspect. I want to colour the symbols by the slope (this part works) and rotate by the aspect.

The steps I take are:

  1. Layer Properties -> Style -> Graduated -> Symbol -> Change

  2. Select Simple Marker (arrow) and press the button to the right of angle -> field type (double) -> Aspect-sel

Applying these commands changes the symbol to an arrow, and I can easily apply the colour gradient, but the symbols do not rotate. The attribute Aspect-sel varies from 2.87 to 334.23.

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ETA: I was using Version 2.8.3 - on suggestion I updated to 2.14.10, which solved the problem.

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If you want to use a field in attribute table, you should select the field directly in the Data defined override which has the angle value. The field should be of double/integer type not string field type. In the following figure I used at first Single Symbol and select Data defined override beside the rotation field, as you can see below:

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Then, I changed the style from Single Symbol to Graduated and select another field (in your case slope field), as you can see below.

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  • Thanks for the example, the only difference I can see with what you have posted is that the Data defined override is available at the Marker level, rather than the Simple Marker level. That option isn't available in my version (2.8.3). Which version are you using? I'm wondering if there's a bug in the version I'm using.
    – Esme_
    Jan 11, 2017 at 5:59
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    I have QGIS 2.14.8. May be you need to update your QGIS version to the latest which is now LTR 2.14.10. But the Data defined override is also available at simple marker.
    – ahmadhanb
    Jan 11, 2017 at 6:01
  • It is located beside the Angle similar to the figure posted in your question. Make sure the field type is Double/integer not string.
    – ahmadhanb
    Jan 11, 2017 at 6:08
  • The field type is double - so I suspect that there was a bug that a later version fixed. Time to upgrade I guess.
    – Esme_
    Jan 12, 2017 at 1:38

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