Mass disable "Keep upright"

I need to rotate a whole layout at a particular angle so I can plot it that way. The problem is that when I rotate the board, all reference designators reorient themselves, thus changing the layout.
The solution is to disable the “Keep upright” property on every single designator, but this would take me hours and at the end I will inevitably leave some of them wrong.

Can I disable this property en masse for the whole file? Is there an API or something so that I don’t have to click for hours?

Application: KiCad PCB Editor
Version: 6.0.11+dfsg-1, release build

If you want to apply this to the reference designators, tick the “reference designators” box

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Excellent feature! Thank you so much!

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you’re welcome! This tool is quite powerful for such things. I used it quite a lot

Why doesn’t a “delete” exist in the “Edit text and Graphics Properties” dialog? Example: let’s say I want to delete all Component values, or whatever else, in a schematics, how to do that? I guess it’s possible somehow.

set visible to false. Deleting a reference designator doesn’t actually delete it, only disables its visibiliy

Sir
i am doing hard work to set this function but failed.
Is it Possible to show via Remote ?
First I Open PCB EDITOR then from the Edit menu I chose Text & Graphics Properties & tick check box of Ref Designator.& Disabled keep upright
but when I applied it had no change.

May i fill the value in the ACTION BOX ?

Did you set the Scope of what you want it applied to ?

yes sir. it solved after TIck ref designator & i am happy. Now clear By Defalut value & how to change value with Layer also
THanks

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