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Revision as of 11:08, 28 August 2014 by Celine.Janssens.all4tec.net (Talk | contribs) (General Case)

Alignment Tool

Introduction

Alignment Tool is availbale in the Papyrus toolbar:
Alignment Toolbar.JPG
Alignment allows to align the different objects of the model based on a reference object. The reference object is basically the last object selected (primary selection) and can be identified with the handles color:

Normal Selection
Primary Selection


To implement Alignment, some rules have been defined.

General Rules

Alignement Types

The Alignment Tools allows 6 types of alignmeent:

  • Horizontaly
    • Left
    • Center
    • Right
  • Verticaly
    • Top
    • Middle
    • Bottom


These types can be disable if the alignment is not possible. Here is the different rules on which the alignment is based:

  1. The alignment is available only if the selected object can be moved on the reference
  2. When an object and one or several children should be aligned on a third object, only the parent is aligned
  3. An object can only be aligned inside of its container's bounds.(In order to avoid scrollbar and invisible objects)
  4. An object cannot be aligned on one of its children.


Using of Alignment Tool

Here under, some examples of using of alignment tool.

General Case

Basically, alignment is used in order to make the model easier to be read and more aesthetical. To align objects:

  1. Start to selected them
  2. Clic on the align toolAlign button.JPG button
  3. Choose the proper type of alignment
General Align1 before.JPG
General Align1 after.JPG

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