Perspective Grid: switch orientation on horizontal plane

I have a tall rectangle I want to place on the horizontal plane of the perspective grid.
Clicking that plane in the widget, or slecting the rectangle and hitting 2, results in the rectangle oriented towards the right vanishing point (or 2:00). I need it to point the other way, toward the left vanishing point (to 10:00).
Is there some way to force an object to do that?
Thanks for any help or thoughts on this.
Mark

Well, that's just really annoying. I spent 99 minutes and 31 seconds on the phone with tech support trying to get an answer to this with nothing to show for it.
Thank you, Monika.

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I've created a 2-point persective grid on top of a cube (see image below). I'm tyring to recreate the cube and have started by inserting some purple squares into the right side of the perspective grid. I've drawn an ellipse at the corner of the original cube that I'm trying to copy, to indicate where I need my squares to stretch to.
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Thanks for the reply,
I've just switched over to a 3-point perspective as you suggested. The top plane works perfectly but as you can see in the first image the right plane is all distorted and is still not lining up with the template. The second image is a bit better as it's aligning at the top but the bottom and right sections don't align.
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It would be very beneficial to view all of the internal lines of the sectioned rectangular prism that the perspective grid consists of. This is a standard workflow for drawing 3 dimensional objects. Without this, it is very difficult to draw accurately.
Essentially this but in perspective mode:
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I'm new to Illustrator and finding my way around. I found one of the tutorial examples referencing this article on the use of a perspective grid to create a graphic:
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I think I got it now how he created the grid that he used. I believe what he did was use a 2 point Perspective Grid, and then moved the vanishing points so that they were (almost) together, creating a single point.
I can create the same effect this way and that looks like how he did it.
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Or did you hide the grids by Alt-clicking the widget that moves the perspective planes?
The latter is the case!
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Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Though I have to admit it took me a half hour to get it to work.
And it's still clunky to work with. I don't think I'll be using it much.
And I haven't been able to summon that dialog you show. I've tried double clicking everything with either Grid tool selected. I'm just not seeing it.
Thank you, anyway. I wouldn't dare using the Perpective Tool without this feature.
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What I meant was I'd like to be able to freely distort any object or group in order to make a faux perspective.
When you select an object and summon the Free Transform tool you can stretch any corner independent from the other corners using a secret keyboard shortcut which I can't remember anymore. I hate how so many functions are hidden behind secret keyboard presses in order to make something work.
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I am trying to familiarize with the perspective grid and I could not find similar topics already addressed anywhere, so I'm posting my question here.
All the tutorials I have seen, and also all the examples, refer to a "convex perspective grid" that is typically the drawing of a cube seen from outside (like a building seen standing in front of it on the other side of the street).
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Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Though I have to admit it took me a half hour to get it to work.
And it's still clunky to work with. I don't think I'll be using it much.
And I haven't been able to summon that dialog you show. I've tried double clicking everything with either Grid tool selected. I'm just not seeing it.
Thank you, anyway. I wouldn't dare using the Perpective Tool without this feature.
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