rotate view

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This forum should help you solve your issue. Search for your issue or scroll through to find an issue similar to yours.

Hope this helped 🙂    

Hold right mouse button down and drag or use . and ,

To rotate an item you are holding in build mode hold ALT down while doing the above.

@samanthachrapko your post was moved I see, just want to let you know it moved over here. 

Other to what jpkarlsen suggested, you can also turn on the Sims 3 mouse in the option (esc -> options). Maybe you can work a bit better with that.