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QuickAlign "center" to "edge-center" deprecated in Layout 6.1.7?

dontpanic

Hello (again)! I recently switched to IC 6.1.7, and now I am unable to get the QuickAlign layout command to align the center point of an object to the "edge center" of another object (as I could easily do in IC 6.1.6). Moreover, when I press F3, the dialog I get for the QuickAlign command options looks rather different (i.e. many less options) than the one shown in the documentation. Do I need to configure/activate something somewhere else? or maybe it is broken due to an incompatibility with my design kit with this new version?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers,

Jorge.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Jorge,

    I am assuming you're looking at old documentation, because if I hit the Help button from the F3 form it describes the fields that are on the form.

    I suspect that maybe you just need to use the Right Mouse Button menu to control quick align. I just tried an align from the centre of one object to the edge centre of another object, and that worked OK. I did have "points and edges" enabled on the quick align mode - the right mouse button menu gives you the option to switch to edges only (and if that has been selected, the menu offers to switch you back to points and edges). My guess is that maybe you're in edges only mode?

    Note you press right mouse button when you're in the Quick Align command to see the context menu.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Jorge,

    I am assuming you're looking at old documentation, because if I hit the Help button from the F3 form it describes the fields that are on the form.

    I suspect that maybe you just need to use the Right Mouse Button menu to control quick align. I just tried an align from the centre of one object to the edge centre of another object, and that worked OK. I did have "points and edges" enabled on the quick align mode - the right mouse button menu gives you the option to switch to edges only (and if that has been selected, the menu offers to switch you back to points and edges). My guess is that maybe you're in edges only mode?

    Note you press right mouse button when you're in the Quick Align command to see the context menu.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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