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462 Chapter 6: Transforms: Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Objec ts
Align Flyout
Main toolbar > Align flyout
The Align flyout, available from the Main toolbar
(page 3–686),providesaccesstosixdifferent
tools for aligning objects. These are, from top to
bottom:
Alig n (page 1–462)
Quick Align (page 1–465)
Normal Align (page 1–465)
Place Highlight (page 1–467)
Alig n Camera (page 1–468)
Alig n to View (page 1–468)
Align
Main toolbar > Align (on Align flyout)
Keyboard > Alt+A
Interface (page 1–464)
Clicking Align , available from the Align flyout
(page 1–462),thenselectinganobject,displays
the Alig n dialog, which lets you align the cur rent
selection to a target selection. The name of the
target object appears in the title bar of the A lign
dialog. When p erforming sub-object alignment,
the title bar of the Align dialog reads "Align
Sub-Object Selection."
Aligning objects along an axis
Left: X p osition, center
Upper right: Y position, minimum
Lower right: Y p osition, maximum
You can align the position and or ientation of the
bounding box (page 3–919) of the source object to
the bounding box of a target object.
You can use the Align tool with any selection that
canbetransformed.Ifanaxistripodisdisplayed,
you can align the tripod (and the geometry it
represents) to any other object in the scene. You
canusethistoalignanobject’spivotpoint.
You can use objects within an XRef scene as
references with all alignment tools on the Align
flyout, except Ali gn to View.
When performing sub-object a li gnment, the
CurrentObjectoptionsandtheMatchScaleboxes
are disabled. If you plan to alig n orientation for
sub-objects, first switch to Local transform mode