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Aligning Objects

Using Make Parallel/
With Grid Snaps on and Angle
Perpendicular
Snaps off, select the left side of the
object, and drag from the center move The Make Parallel/Perpendicular
handle. This snaps the selected side to the edit button allows you to make a
grid. selected object parallel or perpendicular to
any straight line or edge.
When both Grid Snaps and Angle
If you select an edge of a polyline-based
Snaps on, objects snap at increments object, adjacent edges extend or contract to
equal to the Snap unit specified in the Plan maintain contact, but other edges are remain
Defaults dialog rather than onto the grid unchanged. The selected edge rotates about
itself. This does not align objects to the grid its endpoint if selected near the end, or about
unless they were already snapped to the grid. its center if you click within its middle third.
See “Snap Behaviors” on page 167.
The Make Parallel edit button displays
Using Dimensions for a selected CAD block instance when a
line, including a straight polyline edge, or
Create a temporary or manual box edge within a block instance, straight
dimension relative to an object such as
a wall or line, and relocate the objects to the polyline edge is selected. The entire block is
rotated to make the selected line or edge
same dimension. See “Moving Objects perpendicular or parallel to the item
Using Dimensions” on page 479.
subsequently clicked on.
A few objects, such as camera symbols, are
Text objects can be aligned using set-
tings in the Text Specification dialog. not eligible to be used as an axis for the
See “Aligning Text” on page 506. Make Parallel/Perpendicular tool.

CAD Stops Move/ To use Make Parallel/Perpendicular
Wall Stops Move
1. Select an object such as a roof plane on
CAD and CAD-based objects can be aligned the edge that you would like to make
using another CAD object or a wall as a parallel or perpendicular to another
guide. Check the CAD Stops Move and/or object.
Wall Stops Move boxes in the objects’ • Click near the center of the edge to
specification dialogs, then move them until rotate it about the center.
they bump into the CAD object or wall that • Click near an end to rotate the edge
you wish to use as a guide for alignment. See about that end.
“Line Style Panel” on page 301.
2. Click the Make Parallel/
Perpendicular edit button

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