Align objects to other objects using the ALIGN command.
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Transcript
00:04
The align command in AUTOCAD allows you
00:07
to align objects to other objects where typically
00:10
you would have to use a combination of different commands such as move and rotate
00:16
to be able to accomplish the same objective.
00:20
The align command helps mitigate this process. In
00:23
this example, I'll rotate
00:27
the angled parts on this assembly
00:29
to line up with the rest of the part by using
00:33
the align command.
00:35
I'll start off by
00:37
panning over and then zooming in
00:41
and I want to rotate this piece
00:44
to match the rest of this assembly.
00:47
So to access the align command, I'm going to come to the home tab,
00:52
the modify pull
00:54
down panel
00:55
and the align button is on the far left side,
01:00
I'm going to press a line
01:03
and then I'm going to use a crossing window
01:07
to select
01:09
all the pieces of this part,
01:12
right click for enter.
01:15
And the first source point
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will be this end point
01:22
destination
01:23
will be this end point.
01:26
Notice the command line prompt, ask for a second source point
01:31
which will be here
01:34
and then the second destination point
01:37
which will be here.
01:39
Notice how we can continue to look for different points
01:43
in case we had some areas of very complicated geometry
01:48
and we wanted to make sure that more than just two points
01:53
were aligned with the destination.
01:56
We could continue to add more points to this.
01:59
But these two are enough for what I need.
02:02
So I'm going to press enter at this point.
02:06
Then the next command line option is very important because
02:10
what it says is scale objects based on alignment points.
02:16
I'm gonna say no. Then I'm gonna undo it and show you the difference when I say yes.
02:23
So I'm gonna say no here
02:26
and you can see
02:27
that those end points don't exactly line up.
02:33
So if we choose yes, for the scale factor, then
02:38
you'll see that those end points will line up. So let me go ahead and undo
02:44
and then I'm gonna do the align command one more time.
02:49
But this time I'm gonna use the scaling object.
02:54
So we'll go ahead and grab the same end points,
02:59
same end points and I'll zoom in to see those. I don't want the third point.
03:05
So I press enter and this time I'm gonna choose the yes option
03:11
and just like that,
03:12
you can see those end points lined up.
03:16
Let me do a regen
03:18
all and just had some phantom lines there. You can see
03:23
that those end points line up.
00:04
The align command in AUTOCAD allows you
00:07
to align objects to other objects where typically
00:10
you would have to use a combination of different commands such as move and rotate
00:16
to be able to accomplish the same objective.
00:20
The align command helps mitigate this process. In
00:23
this example, I'll rotate
00:27
the angled parts on this assembly
00:29
to line up with the rest of the part by using
00:33
the align command.
00:35
I'll start off by
00:37
panning over and then zooming in
00:41
and I want to rotate this piece
00:44
to match the rest of this assembly.
00:47
So to access the align command, I'm going to come to the home tab,
00:52
the modify pull
00:54
down panel
00:55
and the align button is on the far left side,
01:00
I'm going to press a line
01:03
and then I'm going to use a crossing window
01:07
to select
01:09
all the pieces of this part,
01:12
right click for enter.
01:15
And the first source point
01:18
will be this end point
01:22
destination
01:23
will be this end point.
01:26
Notice the command line prompt, ask for a second source point
01:31
which will be here
01:34
and then the second destination point
01:37
which will be here.
01:39
Notice how we can continue to look for different points
01:43
in case we had some areas of very complicated geometry
01:48
and we wanted to make sure that more than just two points
01:53
were aligned with the destination.
01:56
We could continue to add more points to this.
01:59
But these two are enough for what I need.
02:02
So I'm going to press enter at this point.
02:06
Then the next command line option is very important because
02:10
what it says is scale objects based on alignment points.
02:16
I'm gonna say no. Then I'm gonna undo it and show you the difference when I say yes.
02:23
So I'm gonna say no here
02:26
and you can see
02:27
that those end points don't exactly line up.
02:33
So if we choose yes, for the scale factor, then
02:38
you'll see that those end points will line up. So let me go ahead and undo
02:44
and then I'm gonna do the align command one more time.
02:49
But this time I'm gonna use the scaling object.
02:54
So we'll go ahead and grab the same end points,
02:59
same end points and I'll zoom in to see those. I don't want the third point.
03:05
So I press enter and this time I'm gonna choose the yes option
03:11
and just like that,
03:12
you can see those end points lined up.
03:16
Let me do a regen
03:18
all and just had some phantom lines there. You can see
03:23
that those end points line up.
