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Alignment in 3D
By Tim Hards | April 30, 2008
This month’s Perspector newsletter discusses how to use the alignment and distribute commands. If you missed it, sign up to make sure you receive future issues.
The shape alignment commands are accessed via the Draw menu on the Perspector Drawing toolbar. Perspector offers horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and alignment according to the 3D depth position.
Although the alignment commands appear to line shapes up correctly, they are not always lined up exactly. For example, after using Align Bottom on a set of spheres, you will get this:
The bottom of the spheres aren’t lined up exactly:
What’s going on? The reason for this is that the alignment commands use the bounding boxes that surround the spheres:
This happens with any shapes, not just spheres. There’s currently no way around this, but I’ll keep you informed if this changes.
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