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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

    Jorge,

    You can upload pictures using the Insert/Edit media buttons in the rich text editor when posting - these are in the middle on the bottom row of buttons (between the right indent and the Paste from Word button).

    Anyway, I think you can do what you want. Click the centre of the first object (which you've done) and then move slightly away from the edge centre and it should highlight the entire edge. Or, after clicking on the centre of the first object, do Right Mouse and change to edges only and then you'll only be able to select edges as the target. I think this was done to make it clearer whether the target is an edge - before it sort of showed you it as both a point and an edge, and it probably wasn't obvious which would win.

    Ah, maybe I understand what you mean. I tried in IC616 and you could move slightly away from the edge and end up with a target alignment "edge" perpendicular to the actual edge. I'll add a picture (I'll have to edit the post because I'm writing this in a browser that doesn't reliably work with the insert media button - turns out it is currently not working in the other browser I was using too on my platform - so here's a link to the image instead) to show what it looks like in IC617 if I move away from the edge. Is this what you mean? I can't see how to do this in IC617 - I suspect something has broken.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Jorge,

    You can upload pictures using the Insert/Edit media buttons in the rich text editor when posting - these are in the middle on the bottom row of buttons (between the right indent and the Paste from Word button).

    Anyway, I think you can do what you want. Click the centre of the first object (which you've done) and then move slightly away from the edge centre and it should highlight the entire edge. Or, after clicking on the centre of the first object, do Right Mouse and change to edges only and then you'll only be able to select edges as the target. I think this was done to make it clearer whether the target is an edge - before it sort of showed you it as both a point and an edge, and it probably wasn't obvious which would win.

    Ah, maybe I understand what you mean. I tried in IC616 and you could move slightly away from the edge and end up with a target alignment "edge" perpendicular to the actual edge. I'll add a picture (I'll have to edit the post because I'm writing this in a browser that doesn't reliably work with the insert media button - turns out it is currently not working in the other browser I was using too on my platform - so here's a link to the image instead) to show what it looks like in IC617 if I move away from the edge. Is this what you mean? I can't see how to do this in IC617 - I suspect something has broken.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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