Views are aligned by aligning origins within two views. This can be used to accurately align objects within a view to their corresponding objects in another view.
This feature is useful if you import models which contain 2D drawings, particularly from Toolmaker.
- Right-click the view and select Modify to display the Edit View dialog.
- From the dialog, click
Align to display the
Align View dialog:
- Select a View to be aligned from the drop-down list. Alternatively, select a view on the drawing by clicking it.
- Select
World
to align the world origins of the two views. Deselect this option to align the view origins.
By default, the view and world origins are in the same position. If the world origin is not suitable for aligning the views, you can move the view origins of the two views to somewhere more suitable. Use the Edit View dialog to change the origins of the two views.
If you have several views to align, move the view origin to a position common to the views.
- Click
OK on the
Align View dialog to see the two views align.
The view does not move, just the contents of view. The contents of the modified view may look blank.
- If necessary, edit the borders of view to give the required view. For further details on editing the borders of the view, see Graphically editing views.