Aligning entities

The ALIGN command lets you reposition a selection set with respect to an existing entity in the drawing. The selection set is moved and rotated in a single action. If necessary, you can also scale the selection to fit in its new location.

The command can be used both in a 2D and 3D environment.



Aligning in 2D

  1. Launch the ALIGN command.

  2. You are prompted: Select entities:

  3. Select the entities, then right-click or press Enter.

    You are prompted: Specify first source point:

  4. Snap to the first source point in the selection set (1).

    You are prompted: Specify first destination point:

  5. Snap to the first destination point on the reference entity (2).

    A witness line is drawn between the source point and the target point.

    You are prompted: Specify the second source point:



  6. Snap to the second source point in the selection set (3).

    You are prompted: Specify second destination point:

  7. Snap to the second destination point on the reference entity (4).

    A witness line is drawn between the source point and the target point.

    You are prompted: Specify the third source point:

  8. Right-click to use the ALIGN command in 2D.

    You are prompted: Scale objects based on alignment points [Yes/No] <No>:

  9. Do one of the following:
    • Press Enter if you don't want to scale the selection set.
    • Type Y and press Enter to scale the selection set.

      Scaling adjusts the distance between the source points to the distance between the target points.



  10. Result of the Align procedure with scaled selection set.

Aligning in 3D

  1. Launch the ALIGN command.

    You are prompted: Select entities:

  2. Select the entities, then right-click or press Enter.

    You are prompted: Specify first source point:

  3. Snap to the first source point in the selection set (1).

    You are prompted: Specify first destination point:

  4. Snap to the first destination point on the reference entity (2).

    A witness line is drawn between the source point and the target point.

    You are prompted: Specify the second source point:



  5. Snap to the second source point in the selection set (3).

    You are prompted: Specify second destination point:

  6. Snap to the second destination point on the reference entity (4).

    A witness line is drawn between the source point and the target point.

    You are prompted: Specify the third source point:

  7. Snap to the third source point in the selection set (5).

    You are prompted: Specify third destination point:

  8. Snap to the third destination point on the reference entity (6).

    A witness line is drawn between the source point and the target point.

    The entity is aligned.